When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
“I ask myself if there is an irresponsible aspect in relaying thoughts of pain as inspiration, and I wonder whether Housman actually… — Morrissey Copy Share Image
You want to become aware of your thoughts, you want to choose your thoughts carefully and you want to have fun with… — Joe Vitale Copy Share Image
Our thoughts are always elsewhere; we are stayed and supported by the hope for a better life, or by the hope that… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I have become so accustomed to think "scientifically" that I am afraid even to imagine that there may be something else beyond… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
“Centered, open, and diverse, the universes correspondence to your hopes and dreams is the deliverance of your foremost thoughts and actions. Energetically… — Will Barnes Copy Share Image
“Grievances and any horror in life are seeds waiting for either manifestation into the physical world or transformation into the multidimensional realm.… — Franco Santoro Copy Share Image
“After all, in order to live happily, a man must know now and then a few moments of perfect blankness. Yet I… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“The application of this knife, the division of the world into parts and the building of this structure, is something everybody does.… — Pirsig, Robert M Copy Share Image
A sympathetic parent might see the spark of consciousness in a baby's large eyes and eagerly accept the popular claim that babies… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
“The art is in evolving to such a receptive consciousness, which is aligned to enjoyment and fruition in both ways – expecting… — Santosh Jha Copy Share Image
“Truly, nothing in the world has occupied my thoughts as much as the Self, this riddle, that I live, that I am… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
If within the last century art conceived as an autonomous activity has come to be invested with an unprecedented stature - the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Everything is pointing to one's own activity of looking, to an awareness and sort of hyper-consciousness of visual perception. The only way… — Uta Barth Copy Share Image
At the present moment in our culture this yearning for meaning and consciousness, this yearning to give and serve something higher than… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“The contemplation of consciousness—which is the contemplation of no-thing whatsoever—is endlessly fascinating. It’s like staring at a candle in a dark night—you… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“When we mindfully watch our bodily sensations, we should not confuse them with mental formations, for bodily sensations can arise completely independent… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
“13. “Knowledge stands for the arrival (husûl ) in the soul of some concept (ma- na) in a way that does not… — Franz Rosenthal Copy Share Image
“The whole humanity can be divided into two categories: the fools and the wise. The first category the fools are those who… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
How can one become enlightened in one single moment? One can, because one is enlightened -- one just has to recognize the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Creativity is seeing what everyone else sees, but then thinking a new thought that has never been thought before and expressing it… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“I feel myself. But it's only the eye with a lash in it, the swollen finger, the infected tooth that feels itself,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even specially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Within the scope of human cognitive experience, consciousness, when perceived, becomes awarenesss... Awareness is the qualia of consciousness...Awareness is the perception of… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When our thoughts look real, we live in a world of suffering. When they look subjective, we live in a world of… — Michael Neill Copy Share Image
The inspiration of a noble cause involving human interests wide and far, enables men to do things they did not dream themselves… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
“Entropy is the normal state of consciousness—a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable. To avoid this condition, people are naturally eager… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Thoughts are slippery fish in a cold shallow stream.If you are intent on capturing a worthwhile one, you need to stand very… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Attention is like energy in that without it no work can be done, and in doing work is dissipated. We create ourselves… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“desire are united to his purpose by the use of Sigils, or sacred letters. By projecting consciousness into one object, sensation becomes… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
The great effort of civilization has been, and still is, the attempt to introduce a principle of control into that casual swarm… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
But I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class of men who have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Thought exists only in words, or in images. Meditation demands the most extraordinary discipline – not the discipline of suppression and conformity… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
A prejudice may be an unreasoned judgment, he [Hibben] pointed out, but an unreasoned judgment is not necessarily an illogical judgment. ...… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image