"And remain conscious of God, since it is God who teaches you [herewith]
- and God has full knowledge of everything."
Al-Qur'an 02:282

"Verily, the noblest of you in the sight of God is the one
who is most deeply conscious of Him.."
Al-Qur'an 49:13

"We have a presentiment of 'God-the-inward' in the experience of truth,
in the 'supernaturally natural' miracle of pure intellection as well as,
in varying degrees, in virtue and in grace." Schuon (1969), p.44

 

"Conscious control is a small and weak force in most minds,
a force that we can develop by self-observation."
Robert Ornstein, The Evolution of Consciousness.