“Historically, holism had been a break from the reductionist methods of science. Holism (...) is a way of viewing the universe as… — David Zindell Copy Share Image
The unlived life is not worth examining. ... Self-awareness, self-examination, self-consciousness are for the quiet moments. In the arena they are paralyzing.… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
“In refining their senses and aesthetic judgement, blind tasters become much more conscious of the richness not only of wine but also… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
The means of communication, the irresistible output of the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, certain intellectual… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“But now I want to say things that comfort me and that are a little free. For example: Thursdat is a day… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
The term "self" seems a suitable one for the unconscious substrate whose actual exponent in consciousness is the ego. The ego stands… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The mystery of life--its inexplicability, beauty, cruelty, tenderness, folly . . . has occupied the greater part of my waking thoughts; and… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
“None of this is important in itself, but I feel somewhere that it has a lot to do with why I have… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
My starting point is the fundamental initial fact that each one of us is perforce linked by all the material organic and… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“If man only acts in obedience to the needs of his nature, if he is, so to say, but a "conscious automaton,"… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Sometimes negative thoughts are just like negative prints. All they require is to be immersed in the right formulation of solution to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She let herself stray past the stage of sleep and even past the stage of remembering, and she wanders into the stage… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
“So much of life is invisible, inscrutable: layers of thoughts, feelings, outward events entwined with secrecies, ambiguities, ambivalences, obscurities, darknesses strongly present… — Laurie Sheck Copy Share Image
In the consciousness of belonging together, in the sense of constancy, resides the sanctity, the beauty of matrimony, which helps us to… — Fanny Lewald Copy Share Image
This is the process of Self realization about which Eastern mystics have written. It is the process of salvation to which much… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“As a mother you have thoughts. You get interrupted. You forget. You are distracted. Your thoughts and ideas become fragmented, diluted, or… — Suzi Banks Baum Copy Share Image
Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Studies of mindfulness training and the structure and function on the brain reveal, for example, that mindfulness promotes the growth of important… — Patricia A. Jennings Copy Share Image
Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think...and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“The same diversity in their ways of formation and the same rules for its solution hold good also for the innumerable medley… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“The differences which exist between every one of our real impressions -- differences which explain why a uniform depiction of life cannot… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Know that for the human mind there are certain objects of perception which are within the scope of its nature and capacity;… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Have you ever sat very quietly with closed eyes and watched the movement of your own thinking? Have you watched your mind… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“I extend the horizon of the senses by the imagination; … this conception … exalts me above the limited standpoint of the… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I was really interested in this ability for others to create virtual memories for us. In "The Cartographers" I explore this through… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
“This is closer to reality, but not exactly so. In the Earth incarnation we have lost sight of whom and what we… — Ana Rangel & Gerry O'malley Copy Share Image
“A similar experiment may be tried in metaphysics as regards the *intuition* of objects. If the intuition had to conform to the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
This one question-'What do I know for certain?'-is tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world.… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
When one past thought has ceased and a future thought has not yet risen, in that gap, in between, isn't there a… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“Decision that is taken, it is intellect (buddhi) that does it, till then there is the influence of the mind (which gives… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Everything that enters our field of perception means something, large or small. Everything speaks to us, if we will take off our… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
Consciousness is evolving throughout the universe in billions of forms. So even if we didn't make it, this wouldn't matter on cosmic… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The contemporary memoir is playing an important role in at least just bringing certain relationships out into the open in American society,… — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
In this external world, which is full of finite things, it is impossible to see and find the Infinite. The Infinite must… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You are the witnessing essence and consciousness behind the noise in your mind. Your mind doesnt define you, nor does it control… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
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