“If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral you down into ever-increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort.… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To imagine a new world is to live it daily, each thought, each glance, each step, each gesture, killing and recreating, death… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
If I wrote about "being [abstraction]" I would be ignoring existential issues (such as death, limited-time, the arbitrary nature of the universe,… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I do think it's important to distinguish between intentionalism about consciousness and externalism about consciousness. Intentionalism says that consciousness is a form… — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
Many of the greatest things man has achieved are not the result of consciously directed thought, and still less the product of… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
In order to form for one's self a just notion of the operations which result in the production of thought, it is… — Pierre Jean George Cabanis Copy Share Image
A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in the myth. And since… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Your body, which is very physical, is under the influence of your thoughts, your feelings, your emotions, your dreams, your fantasies, your… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
These days, when people are alone, or feel a moment of boredom, they tend to reach for a device. In a movie… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“When we perceive the stars, the stars are the object of our perception—they exist within us. When we perceive the ocean, the… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Consciousness-one level is understanding where we are in space. Consciousness two is where we understand our position in society: who's top dog,… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“Interestingly, consciousness and understanding are always tied to a short time span, which was called the specious present by the philosopher and… — Julian Barbour Copy Share Image
“There is no time or space in the mind principle. Infinite mind or intelligence is present in its entirety at every point… — Joseph Murphy Copy Share Image
In all our perceptions, from vision to hearing, to the pictures we build of people's character, our unconscious mind starts from whatever… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
I was in a garden at the Rodin Museum. For a few minutes I was alone, sitting on a bench between two… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
“Know that you are God/the Universe and that anywhere you aim/focus your consciousness you create reality in one of the infinite physical… — Russell Anthony Gibbs Copy Share Image
“He tried to avoid these thoughts. He had to stand on guard against his own feeling—as if some part of him had… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I think that everything in the world around us is a reflection of what is going on inside of us. So each… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
This is the path of prayer-contemplative prayer, that is, as distinct from simple prayers of supplication and thanksgiving-which is a specific discipline… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The rhythm of walking generates a kind of rhythm of thinking, and the passage through a landscape echoes or stimulates the passage… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“All that the conscious ego can do is to formulate wishes, which are then carried out by forces which it controls very… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The difference between highly functioning people and people who live with ordinary levels of consciousness is that the self-actualizers never put their… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
In this way, it seems to me that, since 1984, my book on the logistics of perception has been proved totally correct.… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
“He is wise who at last sees in suffering only the light that it sheds on his soul; and whose eyes never… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“If the human species is differentiated from the beasts by the marvel of consciousness, then we enact our humanity and the very… — Lawrence L. Langer Copy Share Image
Attention is riveted on what is tangible, useful, instantly available; the stimulus for deeper thought and reflection may be lacking. Yet human… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“The necessary and needful reaction from the collective unconscious expresses itself in archetypally formed ideas. The meeting with oneself is, at first,… — Carl G. Jung Copy Share Image
The human race is guided by its own ideas, and only by its ideas. If thought were left perfectly free from ban… — Ellen Battelle Dietrick Copy Share Image
"The people" is that massive portion of a society that lives by its pathetic subjection to sheer immediacy or self-obviousness, and that… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
All during the day, in the chinks of time between the things we find ourselves obliged to do, there are the moments… — Frank Laubach Copy Share Image
The simplicity we are looking for is not found in thought. It knows what you have to listen to in every moment… — Robert Young Copy Share Image
“James Allen said it well: “Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain, or rise with your thoughts, your vision,… — Gary Henry Copy Share Image
“It is important to recognise that you may have dismissed intuitive experiences as pure chance when they occured. Now is the time… — Sylvia Clare Copy Share Image
“How do I hate the tide of vulgar thought! Profane, unjust, with childish folly fraught; It breaks and bends the rays of… — Jean de la Fontaine Copy Share Image
“[A woman's] education should be as varied and perfect as possible. If for no other reason to enable her properly to educate… — Karen Andreola Copy Share Image
Evasion of the unadorned immediacy of life is as deep-seated as it is relentless. Even with the ardent desire to be aware… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
I feel that the change, the mutation in consciousness, will occur spontaneously once certain pressures now in operation are removed. I feel… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. We shall never be able to say, "Ha!… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
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![“[A woman's] education should be as varied and perfect as possible. If for no other reason to enable her properly to educate and rear her own children. Whatever grand truths are planted in the mother's mind may take root in the next generation, and there grow, blossom, and shed their perfume on the…” quote by Karen Andreola](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0ef/karen-andreola-68734_children_a-woman-s-education-should-be-as-varied_1755708.jpg)
