The aim of Zen training is to attain the state of consciousness which occurs when the individual ego is emptied of itself… — Anne Bancroft Copy Share Image
Consciousness is much more of the implicate order than is matter... Yet at a deeper level [matter and consciousness] are actually inseparable… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
“No matter how busy we may believe we are, we have the wonderful opportunity presently of investing time with loved ones. For… — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To be conscious of Being, you need to reclaim consciousness from the mind. This is one of the most essential tasks on… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If I have a combination of calm and fear, I access mental states way beyond normal consciousness. That's why I choose to… — Dean Potter Copy Share Image
His essential nature is sat-chit-ananda: (Sat) Absolute Being - He encompasses everything because there is nothing outside of him; (Chit) Absolute Consciousness… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Copy Share Image
I am not interested in things getting better; what I want is more: more human beings, more dreams, more history, more consciousness,… — David Zindell Copy Share Image
I've studied Kabbalah, as you know, for many years, so there are a lot of things I do that one would associate… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining. It is an applied science, a systematized collection of laws… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
As an artist, there's a sweet, jump-starting quality to [marijuana] for me. I've often felt telepathic and receptive to inexplicable messages my… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
“The Great Ones, the sages of every age, tell me what to look for. They say that the answer lies not elsewhere… — J. C. Amberchele Copy Share Image
Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
That is the real pivot of all bourgeois consciousness in all countries: fear and hate of the instinctive, intuitional, procreativebody in man… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I think Nature, if she interests herself much about her children, must often feel that, like the miserable Frankenstein, with her experimenting… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
“It is worth repeating what I've said the last few years—that in our language we have a distinction between 'thinking' and 'thought'.… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as… — John Updike Copy Share Image
To be still means to empty yourself from the incessant flow of thoughts and create a state of consciousness that is open… — John Daido Loori Copy Share Image
When you surrender to what is and so become fully present, the past ceases to have any power. You do not need… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Beyond mind, there is an awareness that is intrinsic, that is not given to you by the outside, and is not an… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity;… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
To experience relationships of substance and depth requires approaching and entering into relationships with consciousness and concern for the other. — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
The belief that consciousness extends beyond death is surely to put more belief in the permanence of self, not less. That seems… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
If we don't like what's happening to us in the world, all we have to do is change our consciousness - and… — Lester Levenson Copy Share Image
“Human consciousness at present is a sort of battlefield. And you know what Tolstoy tells us about battles in War and Peace.… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them'; — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
We dream primarily the same way that we have consciousness of the world for the same reason. Basically, that our brains evolve… — Amy Hardie Copy Share Image
LSD...reinforc ed my sense of what was important-creat ing great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative - that we're just… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“What if you are the awareness, and you were just pretending to be attached to a particular body-mind for the experience it… — Gina Lake Copy Share Image
The great moment I think in human consciousness is when you realize that the object in front of you is perhaps not… — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
You don't 'have' a life, you 'are' life. The One Life, the one consciousness that pervades the entire universe and takes temporary… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Artwork is not thought up in consciousness and then, as a separate phase, executed by the hand. The hand surprises us creates… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
“The nature of consciousness is to define what it calls reality. It's all of your observations that combine to form what it… — S. Andrew Swann Copy Share Image
Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Something about the topic of consciousness makes people, like the White Queen in Through The Looking Glass, believe six impossible things before… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Like most qualities, cuteness is delineated by what it isn't. Most people aren't cute at all, or if so they quickly outgrow… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“The cerebral cortex, the outer ‘skin’ of the brain, contains as many as ten billion neurons. This complexity is daunting. Yet it… — James David Lewis-Williams Copy Share Image