Presenting a collection of inspirational quotes about consciousness and expanding consciousness by spiritual teachers and notable figures from history.
- “A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.” -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.” -- Victor Hugo
- “On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows,
In every rill a sweet instruction flows.” -- Edward Young - “Not to know at large of things remote
From use, obscure and subtle, but to know
That which before us lies in daily life,
Is the prime wisdom.” -- John Milton - “No man was ever wise by chance.” -- Seneca
- “The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.” -- Thomas Huxley
- “The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.” -- William Penn
- “The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.” -- Solomon Ibn Gabriol
- “The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.” -- William James
- “Nature and wisdom never are at strife.” -- Plutarch
- “Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.” -- Aldous Huxley
- “In fact, at this point in history, the most radical, pervasive, and earth-shaking transformation would occur simply if everybody truly evolved to a mature, rational, and responsible ego, capable of freely participating in the open exchange of mutual self-esteem. There is the 'edge of history.' There would be a real New Age.” -- Ken Wilber
- “I don't believe that any human mind is capable of 100 percent error... Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.” -- Ken Wilber
- “Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.” -- Thomas Dewar
- “There is no such thing as boredom for the person who cultivates, trains and develops his mind, to act and serve, as his own personal playground.” -- Joseph P. Martino
- “A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.” -- Neale Donald Walsch
- “And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are.” -- Neale Donald Walsch
- “The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.” -- Aristotle Onassis
- “Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.” -- Bertrand Russell
- “An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.” -- Cicero
- “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” -- Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Nothing is terrible except fear itself.” -- Francis Bacon
- “No one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and that the perfection of wisdom is what makes the happy life, although even the beginnings of wisdom make life bearable. Yet this conviction, clear as it is, needs to be strengthened and given deeper roots through daily reflection; making noble resolutions is not a important as keeping the resolutions you have made already.” -- Seneca
- “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” -- Marcus Aurelius
- “By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament.” -- Ben Franklin
- “Vain is the word of a philosopher, by which no mortal suffering is healed. Just as medicine confers no benefit if it does not drive away bodily, disease, so is philosophy useless if it does not drive away the suffering of the mind.” -- Epicurus
- “When you are physically 'stuck', remember that you are still spiritually FREE.” -- Ros Stiles
- “When I was lost and alone I finally took the time to know myself. The discovery was worth the discomfort.” -- deism.com
- “To live with dignity we must first discover our fundamental beliefs and then live by them.” -- deism.com
- “Enlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave realizes that it is water.
At that moment, all fear of death disappears.” -- Thich Nhat Hanh
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