To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Through my school years, I learned more about slavery, anti-black racism, and oppression in the U.S., and my blackness could no longer… — Luvvie Ajayi Copy Share Image
“Self-consciousness is, from a naturalistic point of view (in this case neurobiological), not more than a degree of sophistication of neural processes.… — István Aranyosi Copy Share Image
The Natural Law which God has written into our beings cannot be entirely eradicated, but it can be gravely deformed, leading to… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Instead of 'watching the thinker,' you can also create a gap in the mind stream simply by directing the focus of your… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A plant has to be watered but when it grows into a tree, it is no longer necessary. Similarly, if the inner… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
“No recorded vision is perfect, of high visions, for the seer must keep either his physical organs or his memory in working… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Education as the practice of freedom--as opposed to education as the practice of domination--denies that man is abstract, isolated, independent and unattached… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, we can all call to mind the case of seeing the same thing many times over and over.… — Tagawa Shun'ei Copy Share Image
A child is not a Christian child, not a Muslim child, but a child of Christian parents or a child of Muslim… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
One of the great mysteries of our current state of consciousness is how we can live in a world where absolutely nothing… — Joseph Jaworski Copy Share Image
. . . if you close your eyes and begin to feel your breath, it will instantly become deeper and slower, and… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
Whats fascinating is that when you write a script, its almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
A state of consciousness is characteristically very transitory; an idea that is conscious now is no longer so a moment later, although… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We humans need to do better with our vast minds and alchemical powers. Future radial poetries might be more symbiotic with the… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“When we discover the secret of being inwardly at worship while outwardly at work, we find that the soul's silence brings us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of evidence shows that most of our cognitive processing is unconscious - phenomenal experience is just a very small slice… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
As long as our consciousness is materialistic, there is no room for joy. However on the spiritual platform three things automatically happen:… — Bhakti Charu Swami Copy Share Image
I would like to have my consciousness digitally preserved and housed in a pleasant place for later insertion into a fully functional… — Stanley Bing Copy Share Image
“For it is the function of consciousness not only to recognize and assimilate the external world through the gateway of the senses,… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
You can't destroy the polish national-consciousness or Poles on the battlefield, but if you give them power, they will destroy themselves — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
“You do not have an existence independent of your environment, but rather you are your environment, and your environment is you.” — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves,… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
“Consciousness - what we call our identity- is always unstable, always at risk of sabotage from the unacceptable feelings of loss and… — Rosalind Minsky Copy Share Image
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One advantage of arguing that causality is aesthetic is that it allows us to consider what we call consciousness alongside what we… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
“The puruṣa is an intelligent principle, of which consciousness (caitanya) is not an attribute, but the very essence. It is the self… — Satischandra Chatterjee Copy Share Image
That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I'm feeling in the earth a massive shift, in especially female consciousness, that is... slightly different than feminism. It feels like this… — Brigette Lundy-Paine Copy Share Image
My ideal audience is on the young side, eager to mutate and move to a higher level of consciousness. I want my… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
The women's movement resurgence of standing up for so many things that were kind of sleepy there for a decade or so,… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
“Though we may choose to view them symbolically, dreams are actually no more or less symbolic than everyday waking reality. When the… — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
I think there is a collective unconsciousness, or some sort of consciousness, that you can tap into if you're open and brave… — Danny Carey Copy Share Image
Were it not for the consciousness of Christ in my life, hour by hour, I could not go on. But He is… — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
From a pure metaphysical perspective, there is no world outside ourselves. So, at the deepest level, the state of the planet is… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image