“The banal perception - all the most profound perceptions are banal, at most one man finds a somewhat more original expression for… — Victor Klemperer Copy Share Image
“Lucien Goldmann has stated the central problem of Marxist aesthetics in the period of advanced capitalism. If the proletariat is not the… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Our lives are more like fragmentary dreams than the enactments of conscious selves. We control very little of what we most care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Another thing much too commonly seen, is an aberration of the human mind which otherwise I should have been ashamed to warn… — William Morris Copy Share Image
“Presence is pure consciousness — consciousness that has been reclaimed from the mind, from the world of form. The inner body is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“An individual is a complex, indefinable object. And so only the individual possesses something that can without lying be called existence. As… — Han Ryner Copy Share Image
The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body.… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
“In Lacan’s view, it is not just dreams but conscious subjective experience in general that is organized into distracting little stories, and… — Stephen A. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“When you have orientational awareness, your perceptions and impressions are based on location and proximity. Orientation may imply hierarchy, position, and prestige,… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“• Conscious: “to be aware of one’s own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings” • Consciousness: “the state of being conscious.” According to this,… — L. Emerson Ferrell Copy Share Image
“To fill in the silence Tsukuru lowered the needle onto the record again, went back to the sofa, and settled in to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Imagination cannot easily transcend the boundaries of the present, and one reason for this is that it must borrow machinery that is… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The kiss of my soft soles on the stone, the thud of my heart in my chest and rush of blood in… — G.R. Matthews Copy Share Image
A thrumming of piano-strings beyond the gardens and through the elms. At length the melody steals into my being. I know not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Whenever you have a negative thought or a complaint or feeling, all you have to do is just notice it. Don’t say,… — Todd Perelmuter Copy Share Image
The evolutionary impulse is towards disidentification from thinking and the arising of awareness or presence, but the gravitational pull of the old… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“[T]here is a certain kind of child who awakens from a book as from an abyssal sleep, swimming heavily up through layers… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“We often believe that our life moves forward only when we meet others. This is not true. Our real lives unfold when… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“- “The consequence?” - “Globalization.” - “Implication?” - “Our fate is reflected in our most famous invention: the computer. Those local area… — A.G. Riddle Copy Share Image
“Taoist (as well as Buddhist) science therefore seeks the eternal, universal light of consciousness that lies hidden like a 'shining pearl' in… — Paul Reid Copy Share Image
“What we think leads to the words that come out of our mouths. What we think and speak may be one of… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Experiments in the visual arts (the invention of new ways of seeing things), are made because, due to the way the apparatus… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“Don't be amazed if you see my eyes always wandering. In fact, this is my way of reading, and it is only… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“During the first year of life, a child acquires the concept of teleomechanical agency: the child is able to perceive an object’s… — Scott Atran Copy Share Image
Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
I think the perception of me can be, you know, confused. But that's only because people only see that side of me… — Miranda Kerr Copy Share Image
“At the end of all the filtering, we take the distorted perception of reality and add it to our worldviews. Since the… — Petros Scientia Copy Share Image
But the positive thoughts would give way to negative thoughts, and the negative thoughts seemed to swoop into her mind the way… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Every thought or idea causes a physical reaction. If stimuli are allowed to pass from the conscious mind to the subconscious mind—and… — Harry Carpenter Copy Share Image
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental counduct produces power for change… — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to… — Stan Brakhage Copy Share Image
“No.” Monsieur Ledru mused, as though he had but half heard. Then with a start: “Oh, but most certainly not. No, it… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
My art is grounded in the belief of one universal energy which runs through everything: from insect to man, from man to… — Ana Mendieta Copy Share Image
“We are not our feelings. We are not our moods. We are not even our thoughts. The very fact that we can… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
This exhibition brings the students' conversations about photography into the Museum space, ... The images in Reclaiming Beautiful present the teenagers' new… — Francisco de Quevedo Copy Share Image
How can you communicate your thoughts or demonstrate your hypotheses by conventional means when all the values and standards that you want… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
“When you have unhelpful thinking that makes you feel crappy or act in ways that are not in line with your typical… — Robert Duff Copy Share Image
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