We never know the reality of things: we see only what we are aware of. It is our consciousness that determines the… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Pain and darkness have been our lot since the Fall of Man. But there must be some hope that we can rise… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I was excited to discover, in this tale by Eliade, the key themes that I most hope to understand better - time,… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his or her… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
We must recognize and keep in the public consciousness the significant contributions and sacrifices Americans of every community have made that have… — Tammy Duckworth Copy Share Image
Not long ago, a novelist could believe he could have an effect on our consciousness of terror. Today, the men who shape… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
To me, a woman can't be a feminist just because she is a woman. She is a feminist because she begins to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You and I may only be mortals, with all the foolishness and fallibility that that state implies, but we're mortals made in… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“If you lack open communication and honesty in your life – It’s time to look within. Are you someone who handles heavy,… — Alaric Hutchinson Copy Share Image
Meditation is object-less. If you use any object, then it is not meditation; it becomes thinking. It becomes contemplation; it becomes reflection,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
For years after Lydgate remembered the impression produced in him by this involuntary appeal-this cry from soul to soul, without other consciousness… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Sometimes, some of us in some things we do know better. When we know better, I think it's imperative that we do… — Jill Alexander Essbaum Copy Share Image
Evolution goes beyond what went before, but because it must embrace what went before, then its very nature is to transcend and… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
By ecstasy I mean inner joyousness, and by inner joyousness I mean those inspirational fires which burn within the consciousness of great… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea… — Ferdinand Christian Baur Copy Share Image
I've been wanting to tell people my theory about what goes on after time. It's beyond our consciousness. We get glimpses of… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
“Our instrumental part in the symphony of life is to allow love to create a space within our own awareness, through which… — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
Whenever you're unhappy, your emotions are telling you that the people or things around you are not conforming to your vision of… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
Nobody doubts the importance of conscious experience; why then should we doubt the significance of unconscious happenings? They also are part of… — Carl Jung 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
You are purer than the pure. Never manifold, you are individual Consciousness. Unborn, unchanging, all-pervasive You are a mountain of joy. — Swami Muktananda Copy Share Image
The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Time can also be a place… Everything depends on where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The… — Frank Herbert 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
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
It is not the job of art to mirror. Images reflected in a mirror appear to us in reverse. An artist's responsibility… — Squeak Carnwath Copy Share Image
As science went further and further into the external world, they ended up inside the atom where to their surprise they saw… — Ravi Gomatam 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
“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