“The surreal is as integral a part of our lives as the 'real,' although one might argue that, since the unconscious underlies… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“First, we developed the self-model, because we had to integrate our sensory perceptions with our bodily behavior. Then this self-model became conscious,… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
But to change all existence into a flow experience, it is not sufficient to learn merely how to control moment-by-moment states of… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
If you are fully aware of your conscience, you will always live a life of hassle free. Accept your full value and… — Kemmy Nolaself Copy Share Image
Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing. There exists a meaning, hidden… — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
What's popularly known as the evolution of consciousness, in other words that the expansion of cognitive repertoire that occurs in human beings,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
The only reality we can ever truly know is that of our perceptions, our own consciousness, while that consciousness, and thus our… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Mysticism is a rational enterprise. Religion is not. The mystic has recognized something about the nature of consciousness prior to thought, and… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
What Jesus meant was that whoever is attached to the worldly life and this earthly body will lose them in death. But… — Rama Swami Copy Share Image
In aesthetic consciousness we enter that painless state, prized by Epicurus as the state of the gods; for a moment we are… — Julian Young Copy Share Image
It is the consciousness of the threefold joy of the Lord, His joy in ransoming us, His joy in dwelling within us… — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
To the degree to which they correspond to the given reality, thought and behavior express a false consciousness, responding to and contributing… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
She fell asleep, lying there, her hand clasping his. Her last awareness, before she surrendered the responsibility of consciousness, was the sense… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that its growth keeps pace… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
... what the artist or creative scientist feels is not anxiety or fear; it is joy. I use the word in contrast… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Wisdom is a condition of consciousness rather than an attitude of mind. Wisdom is that state of being in which an individual… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
I consider morals and aesthetics one and the same, for they cover only one impulse, one drive inherent in our consciousness -… — Naum Gabo Copy Share Image
Slowly but inexorably crawling upon my consciousness and rising above every other impression, came a dizzying fear of the unknown; a fear… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Today things are different. The darkness in the outside world has vanished, but the darkness in our hearts remains, virtually unchanged. Just… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The question of truth is really a question of memory, deep memory, for it deals with something prior to ourselves and can… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“When we look at a tree, we do not see the tree for what it really is. We see how it appears… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“When in the puppet-show of dreams we hold in hand the strings of quite a number of actors, controlling their actions and… — Erwin Schrödinger Copy Share Image
Getting what you want doesn't make you happy, growth makes you happy, raising your level of consciousness. The problem with most people,… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
The downside, of course, is that over time religions become encrusted with precepts and ideas that are the antithesis of soul, as… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
The Infinite alone exists and is Real; the finite is passing and false. The Original Whim in the Beyond caused the apparent… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
The challenge of preventing any further proliferation of nuclear weapons is just such a trial in the quest for world peace, one… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
The age of nations has passed. Now, unless we wish to perish, we must shake off our old prejudices and build the… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The practice of discernment is part of higher consciousness. Discernment is not just a step up from judgment. In life's curriculum, it… — Glenda Green Copy Share Image
I meant that people will take anything that gives them a lift, whether it's alcohol or cocaine or the consciousness-expanding drugs or… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
An adept of Kriya Yoga conquers death by taking the soul beyond identification with the physical body, consciously and at will; and… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
The most wonderful inspirational chemistry we can use on another is the gift of our love and acceptance. Devoted and unquestioned love… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
“What we do, as a conscious species, is set markers for ourselves. Once we reach one marker, we advance to the next—as… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“The ability to feel 'with' rather than 'for' is the essential difference between consciousness and emotion. When we feel for things we… — Manly P. Hall Copy Share Image
Consciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain. These events compete for attention, and as one… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The more your meditation goes deep, the less and less you will feel the burden of the mind. The more and more… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
