In our view any awareness is an increment to consciousness, an added light, a reinforcement of psychic coherence. Its swiftness or instantaneity… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
An honest self-portrait is extremely rare because a man who has reached the degree of self-consciousness presupposed by the desire to paint… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The self,” Blackmore writes, “is just a fleeting impression that arises with each experience and fades away again. . . . There is no inner… — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
“There is ascension to potential that Plato couldn’t conceive while prescribing idealism to conception as highest existences. With Streams, there isn’t a… — Dew Platt Copy Share Image
Consciousness is not the ineluctable starting point for self-understanding because there is a difference between being conscious and understanding oneself as a… — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
Therapy isn't curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
In a sense everything that is exists to climb. All evolution is a climbing towards a higher form. Climbing for life as… — Rob Parker Copy Share Image
“You must again realize that we speak of the self as being so divided only for simplicity’s sake. While the self is… — Jane Roberts Copy Share Image
“If this constant sliding and hiding of meaning were true of conscious life, then we would of course never be able to… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“This, then, is the human problem: there is a price to be paid for every increase in consciousness. We cannot be more… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“But whenever my consciousness was quickened, all those early friends were quickened within it, and in some strange way they accompanied me… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Our contribution purely depends on our consciousness and our willingness to support those in need, to show vulnerability and accept the support… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
Pattern recognition and association make up the core of our thought. These activities involve millions of operations carried out in parallel, outside… — Daniel Crevier Copy Share Image
In one of the Upanishads it says, when the glow of a sunset holds you and you say 'Aha,' that is the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Happiness is not something you have in your hands; it's something you carry in your heart. Happiness is one thing that multiplies… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Awareness is something apart from, and different from, all that of which we are aware: thoughts, emotions, images, sensations, desires and memory.… — Arthur J. Deikman Copy Share Image
You are so accustomed to think of yourselves as bodies having consciousness that you just cannot imagine consciousness as having bodies. Once… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
“Missing Home Sometimes when we may experience a feeling of nostalgia, and a longing for our Home, it does not really mean… — Raphael Zernoff Copy Share Image
How long it will take until we get to a Golden Age where everybody's perfectly in tune with God's will, I don't… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
(There is) art that states the problems of society and wakes people up to make changes in their lives or in their… — Meredith Monk Copy Share Image
In the light of consciousness all sorts of things happen and one need not give special importance to any. The sight of… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
I think, with my own daughters, rather than preaching a feminine agenda, I just really try to help them understand what it… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
The student should bear in mind that the very essence of consciousness is constantly to identify itself with the Not-Self, and as… — Arthur E. Powell Copy Share Image
“By definition, you can’t experience your own death. Death is the end of consciousness. And consciousness persists. In the language of physics,… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
There's the whole significance of Krishna as the flute player who awakens our consciousness. It doesn't necessarily have to be a flute… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
Each of us is free to move our consciousness through that infinite pattern of possibilities as we please. If we're filled with… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
As I love and accept myself exactly as I am, right here and right now with all my so-called flaws and imperfections,… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
“Feeling guilt dims our light. Instead of dimming our light to make others feel more comfortable, we could just continue to shine… — Alaric Hutchinson Copy Share Image
“When we say we understand something, but we do not experience it, we do not understand it. Understanding and experiencing are the… — Raphael Zernoff Copy Share Image
But as I stood there dressed in a cute black pants suit and white button-up shirt and heels, I felt completely out… — J.A. Redmerski Copy Share Image
“Year after year of dirty snow and bitter winds… houses and whole districts of people who aren’t really unhappy, but worse, who… — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
For even the most childish intoxication with progress will soon be forced to recognize that writing and books have a function that… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Good will, that curious product of consciousness, of leisure and energy to spare and share. That thing we put out against the… — Naomi Mitchison Copy Share Image
Philosophers and psychologists have long puzzled over the question of how we know as much as we do despite our limited experiences.… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
In the States, there has been, compared to the Sixties and Seventies, a huge retrenchment - not just in poetry - into… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Whereas if you're a reader, you can enter other people's minds, you can be in direct contact with people who may have… — Lucy Hughes-Hallett Copy Share Image
The way to freedom is through service to others. The way to happiness is through meditation and being in tune with God...… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
You cannot help another who will not help him or herself. In the end, all souls must walk their path - and… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is an angel… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Have you ever looked at a map of our country, Necdet?’ Green Headscarf says. ‘It’s a map of the human mind. We’re… — Ian McDonald Copy Share Image
