“In most people, the term “consciousness” identifies with that socially conditioned Ego. At a number of people this identification is so powerful… — Frank M. Wanderer Copy Share Image
“As an analogy, imagine you’re driving a bus, while all the passengers (thoughts) are noisily chattering, being critical, or shouting out directions.… — Matt Lewis Copy Share Image
Hold to the idea, "I am not the mind, I see that I am thinking, I am watching my mind act," and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Every action, thought and feeling is motivated by an intention, and that intention is a cause that exists as one with an… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
One-dimensional thought is systematically promoted by the makers of politics and their purveyors of mass information. Their universe of discourse is populated… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
...realize in your daily life that 'matter' is merely an aggregation of protons and electrons subject entirely to the control of Mind;… — Robert Collier Copy Share Image
I imagine that whenever the mind perceives a mathematical idea, it makes contact with Plato's world of mathematical concepts... When mathematicians communicate,… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
Niagaras of beauty are flowing by untapped by ordinary consciousness. . . . Would that we could send robots who could film… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I am responsible for what I see. I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt. I could see peace instead of… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
When I see you in the morning, it brightens up my day. There are so many thoughts on my mind, so many… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“From the outside looking in, i think my life would appear very isolated, occupying a huge empty space, with hollow-sounding, emotional echoes.… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
We know that the ability to take on complex ideas, to handle the notion of a multiplicity of viewpoints, to deal in… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it… I… — John Keats Copy Share Image
The past is no more and the future is not yet. The only right person is one who lives moment to moment,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“He (Zerubavel) draws attention to the social influences on perception (what people notice), attention and concern (what people care about), classification (how… — Wendy Griswold Copy Share Image
“How is it that artists keep their powers of perception even in the days when life darkens?" he asked himself. Thinking about… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk,… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
The part of you that is unhampered by illusion-the illusion of time, the illusion of powerlessness, the illusion of impossibility-i s waiting… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“…in a universe in which events are uncertain and perception is fallible, knowing cannot be a matter of an individual mind ‘mirroring’… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
In the unawakened state you don't use thought, but thought uses you. You are, one could almost say, possessed by thought, which… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Our view of the mind not only shapes our view of ourselves; less obviously, it also shapes our view of that part… — Seán Ó Nualláin Copy Share Image
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This new co-consciousness brought me to a state of awareness in which my core personality was directly able to experience "her" personality.… — Suzie Burke Copy Share Image
I think if a writer is not endeavoring to expand and alter consciousness in himself and in his readers, he is not… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Commitment to a plan or thought carries with it a force that can influence the unconscious mind and bring about the desired… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“Finally, positive visualization can be a powerful adjunct to thought-substitution. Some survivors gradually learn to short-circuit the fear-mongering processes of the critic… — Pete Walker Copy Share Image
I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“what's the most horrible experience you can imagine? To me—it's being left, unarmed, in a sealed cell with a drooling beast of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I am not my mind, because I can observe my thoughts. So the observer is different from the observed – I am… — Osho Copy Share Image
“Has it taught you to look at things different?' he asked. i thought, How does he know about all that? But i… — Peter Gould Copy Share Image
Why chase after thoughts, which are superficial ripples of present awareness? Rather look directly into the naked, empty nature of thoughts; then… — Jamgon Kongtrul Copy Share Image
“It is frightening to realize in full depth what it means to be a human being: that is, to realize that we… — C.W. Ceram Copy Share Image
Art is universal. It unites mankind in common brotherhood. As a missionary of civilization, its message is both to heart and mind.… — James Jackson Jarves Copy Share Image
Except in extreme cases of biochemical imbalance, giving over your brain to chemical tinkering is the ultimate act of nihilism. It amounts… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
“The division of one day from the next must be one of the most profound peculiarities of life on this planet. We… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“In the first movement, our infancy as a species, we felt no separation from the natural world around us. Trees, rocks, and… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Public opinion, - a tyrant, sitting in the dark, wrapt up in mystification and vague terrors of obscurity; deriving power no one… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
