“Because, after all, what we deeply want is pleasure and all our values are based on it. Pleasure is the constant factor… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
One cultivates spaciousness or awareness which allows you to acknowledge the emotions and see them as part of the human condition. Emotions… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
You are so accustomed to think of yourselves as bodies having consciousness that you just cannot imagine consciousness as having bodies. Once… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Esse est percipi, to be is to be perceived, said good old Berkeley; but, according to most philosophers, he was wrong. Yet,… — Zeno Vendler Copy Share Image
A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander. Yet… — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
(There is) art that states the problems of society and wakes people up to make changes in their lives or in their… — Meredith Monk Copy Share Image
“As for me, I feel myself living and thinking in a room where everything is the creation and the language of lives… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In the light of consciousness all sorts of things happen and one need not give special importance to any. The sight of… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile, the must-haves we're encouraged to lust over bombard us from every direction. Jewellery. Clothes. Technology. Cars. In pursuit of them, the… — Gabriella Bennett Copy Share Image
“In fact, were it given to our human eye to see into the consciences of others, we would judge a man much… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The thought [behind the Golden Notebook] was that to divide off and compartmentalize living was dangerous and led to nothing but trouble.… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“Man had to invent and create out of himself the limitations of perception and the equanimity to live on this planet. And… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
The student should bear in mind that the very essence of consciousness is constantly to identify itself with the Not-Self, and as… — Arthur E. Powell Copy Share Image
“The mess that's emerging...at least reflects the truth of my experience, the fact that every contemplation is interrupted, and that every interruption… — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Makes no sense to me,' said Huntsekker. 'You don't know who is at your door, but you know the thoughts of a… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
“How wonderful is the Sermon of the Inanimate," says Tung Shan (To-zan). "You cannot hear it through your ears, but you can… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
Everything you stand for, believe in, experience and aspire to is the result of thought. And thought is destructive because it is… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Thought creates things by slicing up reality into small bits that it can easily grasp. Thus when you are think-ing you are… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Behold your Music! This is your minstrelsy; and each of you shall find contained herein, amid the design that I set before… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Each of us is free to move our consciousness through that infinite pattern of possibilities as we please. If we're filled with… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The context of the general teachings is one of talking to a sentient being who is experiencing uninterrupted bewilderment – one thought… — Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for… — Howard Phillips Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“i began to see that i had commodified myself… i created my interior thoughts as a means of production for the corporation… — Fred Turner Copy Share Image
“Deepening awareness and nonjudgmental acceptance of one’s thoughts fosters a new relationship with them, creating the space to purposefully shift mental focus… — Dan Mager Copy Share Image
“This conception has influential part in Eckhart Tolle's teaching, where Ego is presented as an accumulation of thoughts and emotions, and only… — Wikipedia Copy Share Image
Just as the education of nerve and sinew is vital to the excellent athlete and education of the mind is vital to… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“It is a truism that when one is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. The glory of art is that it… — Matthew Woodring Stover Copy Share Image
When our mind works freely without any hindrance, and is at liberty to 'come' or to 'go', we attain Samadhi of Prajna,… — Huineng Copy Share Image
It is that faculty by which we discover and enjoy the beautiful, the picturesque, and the sublime in literature, art, and nature;… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
“Consciousness is an outcome of a recursively comparative memory in which previous self-nonself categorizations are continually related to ongoing present perceptual categorizations… — Edelman Gerald Copy Share Image
“the laws of evolution of consciousness in a universe are exactly the same as the laws of Yoga, and the principles whereby… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You are metaphysicians. You can prove anything by metaphysics; and having done so, every metaphysician can prove every other metaphysician wrong—to his… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Thought about the world is prior to thought about how to change the world. Accordingly, knowing-that is prior to knowing-how. Descartes was… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
“When we stake a claim to the needs and wants of our life, we may easily fail to live up to the… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
But you go to a great school, not for knowledge so much as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention,… — William Johnson Cory Copy Share Image
The reality of man is his thought, not his material body. The thought force and the animal force are partners. Although man… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
“...[His] past had now risen, only the pleasures of it seeming to have lost their quality. Night and day, without interruption save… — George Eliot Middlemarch Copy Share Image
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