I think if a writer is not endeavoring to expand and alter consciousness in himself and in his readers, he is not… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“…in a universe in which events are uncertain and perception is fallible, knowing cannot be a matter of an individual mind ‘mirroring’… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
The past is no more and the future is not yet. The only right person is one who lives moment to moment,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“How is it that artists keep their powers of perception even in the days when life darkens?" he asked himself. Thinking about… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“He (Zerubavel) draws attention to the social influences on perception (what people notice), attention and concern (what people care about), classification (how… — Wendy Griswold Copy Share Image
My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it… I… — John Keats Copy Share Image
There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk,… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
The part of you that is unhampered by illusion-the illusion of time, the illusion of powerlessness, the illusion of impossibility-i s waiting… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“Our view of the mind not only shapes our view of ourselves; less obviously, it also shapes our view of that part… — Seán Ó Nualláin Copy Share Image
In the unawakened state you don't use thought, but thought uses you. You are, one could almost say, possessed by thought, which… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The division of one day from the next must be one of the most profound peculiarities of life on this planet. We… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Except in extreme cases of biochemical imbalance, giving over your brain to chemical tinkering is the ultimate act of nihilism. It amounts… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
“In the first movement, our infancy as a species, we felt no separation from the natural world around us. Trees, rocks, and… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
Art is universal. It unites mankind in common brotherhood. As a missionary of civilization, its message is both to heart and mind.… — James Jackson Jarves Copy Share Image
Public opinion, - a tyrant, sitting in the dark, wrapt up in mystification and vague terrors of obscurity; deriving power no one… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
“In reality, of course, it always does look after itself. All that the conscious ego can do is to formulate wishes, which… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Has it taught you to look at things different?' he asked. i thought, How does he know about all that? But i… — Peter Gould Copy Share Image
“I am not my mind, because I can observe my thoughts. So the observer is different from the observed – I am… — Osho Copy Share Image
“It is frightening to realize in full depth what it means to be a human being: that is, to realize that we… — C.W. Ceram Copy Share Image
Why chase after thoughts, which are superficial ripples of present awareness? Rather look directly into the naked, empty nature of thoughts; then… — Jamgon Kongtrul Copy Share Image
“Let's never stop asking questions. Questions give us a harbor to remember where we once lived mentally. They remind us of the… — Luci Swindoll Copy Share Image
We bring about a world in consciousness that is partly what is given, and partly what we bring, something that comes into… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
“Faced with the thoughts, the actions of a woman whom we love, we are as completely at a loss as the world's… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“You fall into thought while staring at the green foliage back here—so much damn green that it envelops you in its cruddy… — Brian Alan Ellis Copy Share Image
However, when we shift our awareness or "frequency" from self-consciousness - where fear, impossibility or feelings of separation reside - to cosmic… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
“Dantes remained confused and silent by this explanation of the thoughts which had unconsciously been working in his mind, or rather soul;… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Psychology, on the other hand, seeks to give account of the interconnexion of processes which are evinced by our own consciousness, or… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
“The novelist’s happy discovery was to think of substituting for those opaque sections, impenetrable by the human spirit, their equivalent in immaterial… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In what touches their social convictions, most persons do not think. The threat of change, with all it suggests to them in… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
“Multimodal neurons connect to sensations, perceptions, emotions, memories, and auditory, olfactory, and visual stimuli. And so it is theorized that mirror neurons… — Fran Cohen Praver Copy Share Image
Existence is only in the present. Mind is never in the present. In fact, the moment you are in the present, there… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I used to have to force myself to go, okay, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing and then all of a sudden a thought… — Nancy Johnson Copy Share Image
“The only way in which the world can be grasped ultimately lies, not in thought, but in the act, in the experience… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Asking ourselves, 'Where am I right now?' gives us a chance to step outside the internal dialogue for a moment of peace.… — Laura Harvey Copy Share Image
“Piaget may 'be about' stages or cognitive development only in the way that Newton 'is about' gravity, or Columbus the West Indies,… — Robert Kegan Copy Share Image
By thinking you cannot decide. It is not a question of deciding as a logical conclusion, it is a question of choiceless… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Imagine someone reaching straight into your chest, past the bones and blood and guts, and taking a nice firm hold on your… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
