Consciousness Quotes by Kenny Smith

8 Consciousness quotes by Kenny Smith

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Kenny Smith shares eight short, uplifting statements that frame awareness as a catalyst for personal growth and purposeful action.

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Human cultures are all experiments in trying to find a form that will fit the matter of our immediacy; but it is…

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As always, the illusion of self-transcendence is far more facile and available than self-transcendence itself: in the vast majority of cases what…

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Some form of gnosis or immediacy is attached to all thinking as its root-form or primitive origination; every act of thinking has…

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Not the least of the problems in clarifying one's consciousness is developing the stoic determination to criticize one's own softness or sentimentality…

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Soul one might say is more imperfectly infinite than spirit, because soul tends to abolish the ego-consciousness that it absorbs or overwhelms,…

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There is a form of poetic and esthetic and moral genius necessary to make philosophical issues truly incandesce for students, and even…

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The ideological are individuals ultimately swamped by the complexities of modern life and political and economic relations; they have deliberately attached themselves…

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"The people" is that massive portion of a society that lives by its pathetic subjection to sheer immediacy or self-obviousness, and that…

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I've played more park games than NBA games, and I had a 10-year NBA career.

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I'm always the neutral guy, man. I'm able to bring people together.

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People compose the schedules they do out of the priorities they have; and someone who says otherwise is deceiving himself about what he really…

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You can have your own thought process about things, but you still need to include and co-exist with other people.

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