Inspirational quotes are little pieces of wisdom. They feed us when we need it most.
What is it about Inspirational Quotes that it has such impact. You only have to spend some time on Twitter to see that quotes can be very powerful (particularly if you consider the amount of retweets it receives). Motivational quotes are as popular.
How does that contribute to consciousness and spirituality? Inspirational quotes have the ability to halt our compulsive stream of thoughts and bring us into presence. It has the ability to connect us to true consciousness - pull us out of unconsciousness into this moment. Here. Now.
Below are a few that I have picked up. Hopefully with the help of visitors, we will grow this list significantly. I have found some quotes that are inspirational and some that are not. I trust that you will find something that hits the correct nerve when you need some inspiration! Quote at will.
Inspirational Quotes To find what you seek in the road of life,the best proverb of all is that which says:"Leave no stone unturned." Edward Bulwer Lytton
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? George Eliot
Inspiration and genius-one and the same. Victor Hugo
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it. William Arthur Ward
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. Leon J. Suenes
If you would create something,you must be something. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every artist was first an amateur. Ralph Waldo Emerson
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men do less than they ought,unless they do all they can. Thomas Carlyle
Let thy words be few. Ecclesiastes 5:2 from Words of Wisdom
The power of imagination makes us infinite. John Muir
First say to yourself what you would be;and then do what you have to do. Epictetus
I find that inspirational quotes has its place. From time to time, however, one needs a kick up the backside. Not to contradict and consciousness or spirituality issues, motivation and motivational quotes serve to bring us into action. If you feel need that little kick start, read on.
If these inspirational quotes did not help you to pause, some motivational quotes might!
Motivation Quotes If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes. St. Clement of Alexandra
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. Thornton Wilder
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. Arthur C. Clarke
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. Johann Gottfried Von Herder
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,is not an act but a habit. Aristotle
Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need. Voltaire
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. Benjamin Disraeli
You cannot plough a field byturning it over in your mind. Author Unknown
The best way out is always through. Robert Frost
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. William B. Sprague
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. Samuel Johnson
Fortune favors the brave. Publius Terence
He who hesitates is lost. Proverb
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. Confucius
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. Albert Einstein
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.Willing is not enough; we must do. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose--a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. Mary Shelley
We are still masters of our fate.We are still captains of our souls. Winston Churchill
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson
For hope is but the dreamof those that wake. Matthew Prior
Constant dripping hollows out a stone. Lucretius
Consciousness quotes are not always found in abundance. Over time I will try and bring some to this page.
The following are quotes I post to Twitter from time to time. I will add some from Deepak Chopra, Eckhart Tolle and Wayne Dyer . These guys have so very good inspirational quotes too, so I will add that in the appropriate spaces.
Consciousness Quotes God is a very complex concept. For me it is the collective unconsciousness of all living things of which humans are the most advanced
"The creation cannot threaten the creator, so why are so many people afraid to challenge God (whatever that means to them)?"
If time is an illusion of linked conscious moments experienced every 40th of a sec-like frames of a movie - does it change your view on God?
"In the spaces between thoughts, that's where u will find what some call God - I call it consciousness/potentiality See here
"At a fundamental level we are just oscillating particles, collapsed by the conscious observer that's consciousness self - where's God then?"
Wondering what two humans experiencing quantum entanglement looks like? I'd have to say the height of intimacy should get you close
Religion is the process through which mental chains are placed on the boundless concept some call God...
You can not believe in God unless you find a definition for what God is...the absence of the definition is the absence of belief
"When the sun rises it reminds us that life has a rhytm, the world is full of rhythms & vibrations. Are you in tune? Resonating?"
I believe in soul mates who recognize each other in this life on a pre-determined signal in the life between lives stage
Is it not that the silence is where pure consciousness resides and that we merge with that when our minds' are silent?
Being religious means u subscribe to a set of beliefs and/or rules. Spirituality implies an experience...no rules
Stuart Hameroff say we have 40 conscious moments every second when is NOW then?
Who we are is a mystery masked by our compulsive thought generating minds...remove the thoughts and find YOU
Opposing anybody to do anything they wish to do is to limit the human spirit and therefore the universe...
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.- Eleanor Roosevelt
Church or religion places chains on the minds of individual's ability to experience true spirituality
The life of an individual has meaning insofar as it contributes to the greater universe by just being
Anxiety is fear of the future. Living in the NOW solves that beautifully
Many religions sees spirituality as a subset of their particular brand of religion not vice versa
Intention grows in the substrate of a mind connected to the quiet of the singular consciousness