“Humanity's "progress of knowledge" and the "evolution of consciousness" have too often been characterized as if our task were simply to ascend… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
As the practical value of altering consciousness becomes recognized, procedures to effect these alterations will become increasingly ordinary and unremarkable. The whole… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
“At the very best, a mind enclosed in language is in prison. It is limited to the number of relations which words… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“A conscious act grew out of this by the time I began writing stories: getting my distance, a prerequisite of my understanding… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“One thus arrives at a curious conception of thought. Thought has no real, concrete existence, accessible to immediate consciousness, since the datum… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“It has been said that, in scale, a human being is about halfway between an atom and a star. Interestingly, this is… — Brian May Copy Share Image
“When the mind becomes conscious of itself as thought it simultaneously becomes conscious of itself as action. Thought and action, truth and… — R. G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
If We Understood The Power Of Our Thoughts, We Would Guard Them More Closely. If We Understood The Power Of Our Words,… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
“Always remember, child" her first teacher had impressed on her, "that to think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the… — james clavell Copy Share Image
“When You Are Your True Self 1. Your life has a unique purpose. 2. That purpose is unfolding continually, becoming richer and… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“...without thinking the follow-up thought that prevents a person from following through with the original, she throws the tea in the mug… — Ani Baker Copy Share Image
“We are akin to the inhabitants of a small isolated island who have just invented the first boat, and are about to… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“African American racial consciousness responds to the horrors of the Middle Passage and New World slavery as well as to the unfulfilled… — Bruce Dain Copy Share Image
“One is everywhere and in everything if awaken to cosmic realisation of truth of oneness But "one" isn't here, anywhere or in… — Harsh Ranga Neo Copy Share Image
I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Inwardness is the characteristic feature of the vegetable rather than the animal approach to existence. The animals move, migrate and swarm, while… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“The most important thing that is happening in the world right now is the emerging of the new man. Since the monkeys,… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
Nietzsche ... does not shy from conscious exaggeration and one-sided formulations of his thought, believing that in this way he can most… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
Conscious business.. business that is conscious of inner and outer worlds.. would therefore be business that takes into account body, mind, and… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
The consciousness of a general idea has a certain "unity of the ego" in it, which is identical when it passes from… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“If the State is to have reality as the ethical, self-conscious realization of spirit, it must be distinguished from the form of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
...by and by a change came: I started to muse about the shape of my nose. I put my trivial surroundings aside… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The awareness needed for meditation, at least some forms of it, seems analogous to what lucid dreamers seek to develop. Meditators, especially… — Robert Waggoner Copy Share Image
“The problem is that we cannot recognize that what we say about out thoughts and actions is, at best, incoherent; we can… — Israel Rosenfield Copy Share Image
“Every time one of those 50,000 thoughts takes place, chemicals are produced in your brain that can trigger reactions felt throughout your… — Travis Bradberry Copy Share Image
Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they… — Asvaghosa Copy Share Image
“Emotions are given to us by God, so that we can fully experience our experiences. The only problem with emotions is that… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“I was struck that morning, as I would occasionally be struck the entire time I was in India, by the notion that… — Sameer Parekh Copy Share Image
Attention is the key to life. Whatever you really give your attention to, you become. Whatever you really concentrate upon will come… — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
“The inception of human consciousness, the genesis of awareness, must have entailed prolonged 'condensations' around intractable nodes of wonder and terror, at… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“Nagarjuna's Rebuttal ofObjec- tions says: If there were anything to be observed Through direct perception and the other instances [of valid cognition],… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“Science and philosophy have for centuries been sustained by unquestioning faith in perception. Perception opens a window on to things. This means… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“The antidote, in so far as it is a matter of individual psychology, is to be found in history, biology, astronomy, and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness; and that the adjustment of individual activity… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“The outer world of circumstance shapes itself to the inner world of thought, and both pleasant and unpleasant external conditions are factors,… — James Allen Copy Share Image