As a spirit schooled to power, his perception stems from…

“The urge to transcend self-conscious selfhood is, as I have said, a principal appetite of the soul.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Courage is being who you are. Courage is sacred of thyself.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I think universal harmony is a pipedream and it may be more productive to focus on more modest goals, like a ban on yodeling.

— Woody Allen

She who is centered in the Tao can go where she wishes, without danger. She perceives the universal harmony, even amid great pain, because…

— Laozi

Each celestial body, in fact each and every atom, produces a particular sound on account of its movement, its rhythm or vibration. All these…

— Pythagoras

This does not mean, of course, that we must think of waiting for the age of universal harmony.

— Leon Pinsker

One of the noblest words in our language is "grace," defined as "unearned blessing." We live by grace far more than by anything else.…

— D. Elton Trueblood

If you are not conscious of all of the different parts of yourself, the part of yourself that is the strongest will win out…

— Gary Zukav

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to…

— Gertrude Stein

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

— Anonymous

Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Believe in good fortune, divine…

— Joseph Murphy

“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one…

— Ernest Becker

By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological…

— Deepak Chopra

Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.

— Otto Weininger

Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes…

— John Armstrong