“The existence of consciousness is both one of the most familiar and one of the most astounding things about the world. No… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
There is no articulate resonance. The common problem, I suppose, is to have more to say than vocabulary and syntax can bear.… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
If we would pray aright, the first thing we should do is to see to it that we really get an audience… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
The Saint Bernards work best in teams of at least three dogs. They are sent out on patrols following storms, and they… — Stanley Coren Copy Share Image
“Was it possible to feel nostalgic about something that had never happened to him, possible for nostalgia to be taken in by… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
Art, and, above all, music, has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all… — Iannis Xenakis Copy Share Image
Awareness means to listen to me unfocused - alert of course, not fallen asleep, but alert to these birds, their chirping, alert… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“I do nothing, with as little shame as satisfaction. It is the state that suits me best. I write the odd poem… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“An altered state of consciousness simply means any state of awareness that is different from our normal waking state. When we daydream… — Susan Gregg Copy Share Image
The ideological are individuals ultimately swamped by the complexities of modern life and political and economic relations; they have deliberately attached themselves… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
When we say 'time', I believe we mean at least two things. We mean changes. And we mean something unchangeable. We mean… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
We need a change in consciousness to go with this technology platform. We need a new narrative: we need to shift from… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
I've found that in life, and certainly in music, it's all just a series of occurrences in which you are constantly assessing… — RJD2 Copy Share Image
The way to have the life we want is to receive more deeply the life we have. Sometimes we keep our own… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“He who knows himself is wise; yet have we no sooner acquired real consciousness of our being than we learn that true… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“It is really extraordinarily interesting to watch the operation of one’s own thinking, just to observe how one thinks, where that reaction… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The kind of spirituality I value is one in which you get great joy out of contributing to life, not just sitting… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
You can indeed be aware of your body, but you can also be aware of your mind - you can right now… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Lichtenberg ... held something of the following kind: one should neither affirm the existence of God nor deny it. ... It is… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
There is a Restlessness springing from the consciousness of power not fully utilized, which must be present wherever there is unused power… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
Sadly, semi-consciousness, along with daydreaming, is a capacity that is actively discouraged among children in schools, and our society is much poorer… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“I’ve come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I've always been an outsider. I grew up in an isolated house surrounded by three moats. There was no money. I left… — Amanda Feilding Copy Share Image
“The objective mind is most active when the body is awake. The subjective influences are most active, and often fill the mind… — Gustavus Hindman Miller Copy Share Image
Can we find nothing good to say about TV? Well, yes, it brings scattered solitaries into a sort of communion. TV allows… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“I remember sitting and meditating beside a slow flowing river in India, and I got the feeling that this river could teach… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an… — William James Copy Share Image
It seemed clear to me that life and the world somehow depended upon me now. I may almost say that the world… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Within these premises, the only thing one can be is an impeccable mediator. One is not the player in this cosmic match… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
“We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the fatal… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
This book is unique. I know of no other which so artfully tackles two of the greatest mysteries of modern science, quantum… — George Greenstein Copy Share Image
When my father began to work with President John. F.Kennedy, we moved to Washington, D.C. I was fortunate in my pre-adolescent years,… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
The universe evolves in consciousness of itself and causes itself to be. We are just this blessed consciousness, nothing more and nothing… — David Zindell Copy Share Image
Before AIM, Indians were dispirited, defeated, and culturally dissolving. People were ashamed to be Indian. You didn't see the young people wearing… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress. The majority consciousness has changed, and often… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Consciousness is expensive,” she said. “This is a problem for totalitarian states. A human being with interest in leisure, art, agency—a human… — Neil Clarke Copy Share Image
Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender. Feminism must involve consciousness of capitalism… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
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