“In a way, though, the boy was right. Every human being on the face of the earth has a steel plate in… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“how “intense mental activity hinders perception.” They found that it wasn’t just emotional arousal that altered the size of the pupil: Mental… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“New technologies alter the structure of our interests: the things we think about. They alter the character of our symbols: the things… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
We must be able to let things happen in the psyche. For us, this becomes a real art... Consciousness is forever interfering,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“All day long the thoughts that occupy your mind, your Secret Place, as Jesus calls it, are moulding your destiny for good… — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
“And as mere human knowledge can split a ray of light and analyse the manner of its composition, so, sublimer intelligences may… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The feeling activity of Life is the most unguarded point of human consciousness. It is the accumulative energy by which thoughts are… — Godfré Ray King Copy Share Image
For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of crisscrossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible; his life… — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
With every decision that anyone makes, the world changes. The decision that we give our consent to is the one that remains… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“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
[Aldous Huxley] compared the brain to a 'reducing valve'. In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world. Our hearing extends to a small distance. Our… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
A thousand years ago, scientists who wondered about consciousness and the nature of reality were burned at the stake. We still haven't… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
“I believe, for example, that all creativity and consciousness is born in the quality of play, as opposed to work, in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“as Hume expressed it. The mind is 'a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make their appearance; pass, re-pass, slide away,… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“If this was the true self it was marvelous and what’s more it seemed never to change but always to pick up… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Writing on this subject in 1904 Freud gave the reason for our unshakable conviction of freedom of choice. He remarked that it… — Ernest Jones Copy Share Image
Just to say 'woke' is to always be in a constant stream of consciousness where you don't feel like the wool is… — Brian Tyree Henry Copy Share Image
When you spend too much time concentrating on everyone else's perception of you, or who everyone else wants you to be, you… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
“Human life. Duration: momentary. Nature: changeable. Perception: dim. Condition of Body: decaying. Soul: spinning around. Fortune: unpredictable. Lasting Fame: uncertain. Sum Up:… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“In 1967, the second resolution to the cat problem was formulated by Nobel laureate Eugene Wigner, whose work was pivotal in laying… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
1)It is obvious, for survival and problem solving purposes, we live in two worlds, the mind and the environment. The environment is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A great thinker does not necessary have to discover a master idea but has to rediscover and to affirm a true but… — Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud Copy Share Image
“And now, surrender your creation to a greater mind . . . for what you think and experience in this realm of… — Joe Dispenza Copy Share Image
“But there's a sacredness which is not of thought, nor of a feeling resuscitated by thought. It is not recognizable by thought… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“The fact to be remembered in considering... contact with [the] thought currents of others, is that we may decide the character of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is not the eye that sees the beauty of the heaven, nor the ear that hears the sweetness of music or… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
Their function is to anchor the frequency of the new consciousness on this planet. I call them the frequency-holders. They are here… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us ‘Universe,’ a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself,… — Benjamin Riggs Copy Share Image
“Nothing could be more alien to contemplation than the cogito ergo sum of Descartes. “I think, therefore I am.” This is the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
That because of this interplay of conscious and unconscious factors in guilt and the impossibility of legalistic blame, we are forced into… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I hadn't had a book in my hands for four months, and the mere idea of a book where I could see… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
It is our responsibility as scientists, knowing the great progress which comes from a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance, the great progress which… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one, that has frightened and inspired us, so that we… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Therefore, the universe, and everything in it, responds to thoughts because it is composed of the thoughts of the divine. If the… — Christopher Penczak Copy Share Image
“He was there alone with himself, collected, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the serenity of the skies, moved… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Perception, after all, is not simply a matter of what you believe about yourself, it all encompasses what others think about you,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
You cannot “catch” anything unless you think you can, and thinking you can is inviting it to you with your thought. You… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image