One does not think during creative work, any more than one thinks when driving a car. But one has a background of… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
“I came to the conclusion then that “continual mindfulness” could certainly not mean that my little conscious self should be entirely responsible… — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
“In life, every experience of a peak always follows the experience of a valley and we go back and forth between them.… — Eliza Mada Dalian Copy Share Image
By the definite science of meditation known for millenniums to the yogis and sages of India, and to Jesus, any seeker of… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Man is a flux of states of consciousness, a flow of passing thoughts, each thought of self another self, a myriad thoughts,… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
“Viewed from the Taoist paradigm, the utter emptiness of space is a state known as 'extreme yin'. Taoist texts state; 'When yin… — Daniel Reid Copy Share Image
When your witnessing is ninety percent, your mind is reduced to ten percent. And when your witnessing is one hundred percent -… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To bring the tools of science and to recognize that the flaw in the Cartesian Duality and to bring the tools of… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Centuries of navel-gazing. Millennia of masturbation. Plato to Descartes to Dawkins to Rhanda. Souls and zombie agents and qualia. Kolmogorov complexity. Consciousness… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“For this expanse of dharmas just as it is, the conventional term "ultimate reality" is used. You might object, "What do you… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
If it's real enlightenment...you're dealing with someone who's broken through every rule, every barrier, every do and do not, and they've reached… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Without spiritual development we are like travelers on a dark country road, with only a candle to light our way. But when… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
“from the short story, Cielo Azul “Harry, get an ambulance.” I stood up and stepped back from the scene. I felt my… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“The same is true about the conventional sense of self — the feeling of being a subject inside your head, a locus… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“The arrogance of writing comes not from the finished creation, but from the very act itself. What hubris is required for a… — Alec Hutson Copy Share Image
“To write a profound thought, I have to put myself onto a very special stratum, otherwise the ideas and words just don't… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“I've come to think of consciousness as a continuum of states, from fully awake cogitation to daydreaming to the altered consciousness of… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Constant reminding ourselves that we not see with our eyes but with our synergetic eye-brain system working as a whole will produce… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“If you want a joyous life, think joyous thoughts. If you want a prosperous life, think prosperous thoughts. If you want a… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
“Once the quietness arrived, it stayed and spread in Estha. It reached out of his head and enfolded him in its swampy… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Vivian Bloodmark, a philosophical friend of mine, in later years, used to say that while the scientist sees everything that happens in… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
When you are thinking something, you have the feeling that the thoughts do nothing except inform you the way things are and… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
When we reflect on our past sentiments and affections, our thought is a faithful mirror, and copies its objects truly; but the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people in my circle are thinking that way or see the movie [Into the Forest] and then… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
“My only reality was a mass of radiant swirling energy of immense proportions that seemed to contain all existence in a condensed… — Ralph Metzner Copy Share Image
“Enlightened Consciousness in the individual mind acquires for its possessor, not a relative knowledge of things as his intellect does, but the… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Man's conscious state is an awareness of body and breath. His subconscious state, active in sleep, is associated with his mental, and… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
You go from having fun doing something to having it become your life without you realizing it. It can be weird and… — Nicolas Jaar Copy Share Image
“The collective consciousness and all its branches of personal consciousness, through beliefs and thoughts, collide or smash energy, slowing down its vibration… — Russell Anthony Gibbs Copy Share Image
“In triunal rigidity, your three brains become aligned with a reality that isn’t the one you’re currently facing. This leaves you trapped… — Mark Goulston Copy Share Image
“The contemplative seeks to be drawn ever more deeply into the circle of divine being, consciousness, and bliss, the circle of God… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead to consciousness,… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
“Reading is an act of contemplation, perhaps the only act in which we allow ourselves to merge with the consciousness of another… — David L. Ulin Copy Share Image
And the fear of not being is born in that space. But in meditation, when this is understood, the mind can enter… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
While you're meditating, all kinds of thoughts arise... You don't find your thoughts threatening or particularly helpful. They just become the general… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“We are not our bodies, we are not our minds, we are not our thoughts, we are not our ego. We have… — Dave DeLuca Copy Share Image
“Man’s mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Life is a series of moments and moments are always changing, just like thoughts, negative and positive. And though it may be… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image