“At that time the individual did not exist. There was not an awareness of a distinction between “I” and “you”. The birth… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
A society with too few independent thinkers is vulnerable to control by disturbed and opportunistic leaders. A society which wants to create… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Why do you never find anything written about that idiosyncratic thought you advert to, about your fascination with something no one else… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
His eyes beheld beauty not in reality but in the printed word. Standing in the waiting-room, he realized that in his life… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
The art of thinking is the greatest art of all, for 'as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.' The… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
The last peculiarity of consciousness to which attention is to be drawn in this first rough description of its stream is that… — William James Copy Share Image
Artwork is not thought up in consciousness and then, as a separate phase, executed by the hand. The hand surprises us creates… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
“There exist concretely alarm clocks, signboards, tax forms, policemen, so many guard rails against anguish. But as soon as the enterprise is… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“In a world so empty of human life, there was comfort in the thought that an invisible realm of spirits was aware… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
“That's really an exceedingly sophisticated idea, epistemologically speaking. Does it mean that parts of the world are spurious? Or that sometimes the… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“[T]he changing, functional, causal, and conditioned world, present to ordinary sensory and mental experience, was what was ultimately real. To be real… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
It is only through meditation that slowly slowly more consciousness is created within you, more light is created; more watchfulness, witnessing, happens.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We are concerned with similar states of consciousness and relationship to the world.. ..If previous abstractions paralleled the scientific and objective preoccupations… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
“I think of that, too: her mind. Her brain, all those coils, and her thoughts shuttling through those coils like fast, frantic… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
We cannot discover ourselves without first discovering the universe, the earth, and the imperatives of our own being. Each of these has… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
When you continuously know and sense yourself as the space of consciousness rather than what appears in consciousness - sense perceptions, thoughts,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Your automatic creative mechanism is teleological. That is, it operates in terms of goals and end results. Once you give it a… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
“When you look through a window you gasp at the beautiful tree in the backyard or the magical sunrise coming over the… — Addison Killebrew Copy Share Image
“If nothing exists, there can be no consciousness, a consciousness with nothing to be conscious of is a contradiction in terms. A… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The source of wisdom and power, of love and beauty, is within ourselves, but not within our egos. It is within our… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Plotinus, when he thinks about mind or intellect, the Greek word is 'nous', he thinks about something that's very different, it's much… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
The great moment I think in human consciousness is when you realize that the object in front of you is perhaps not… — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
If we can allow some space within our awareness and rest there, we can respect our troubling thoughts and emotions, allow them… — Tsoknyi Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“Virtuality is different from the spectacle, which still left room for a critical consciousness and demystification. The abstraction of the 'spectacle' was… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“I want to give the reader knowledge and hope, knowledge that there is this vast, vivid, very alive part of the universe… — Dr. John Muciaccia Copy Share Image
We artists can only go so far as the people can follow us. We are not alone, we are part of the… — Jean Giraud Copy Share Image
“Henry Ford, when asked about his employees, said it best: “None of our men are ‘experts.’ We have most unfortunately found it… — Peter H. Diamandis Copy Share Image
“Think of all of this in terms of the so-called material things. You know that two objects cannot fill the same space… — Claude M. Bristol Copy Share Image
“If our thoughts are slumping down into a muddling pie of oblivion, we must empower our minds to go beyond vain details… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Every human thought, word, or deed is based on fear or love. Fear is the energy which contracts, closes down, draws in,… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“For no one believes anything unless he has first thought that it is to be believed. For however suddenly, however rapidly, some… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Understanding the physiological and neurological features of spiritual experiences should not be interpreted as an attempt to discredit their reality or explain… — Sabina Magliocco Copy Share Image
“World of matter, World of life, World of thought, World of justice: four orders, of which three have already appeared, with the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Imagine how terrifying it would be if we had to decide the beginnings of things for ourselves: as to what race we… — Mabel Osgood Wright Copy Share Image
The one who follows the thought is also a thought! The one who follows the thought IS in thought. When you know… — H. W. L. Poonja Copy Share Image
“T-4.I.2. Many stand guard over their ideas because they want to protect their thought systems as they are, and learning means change.… — Foundation for Inner Peace Copy Share Image
“What is in mind is a sort of Chautauqua...that's the only name I can think of for it...like the traveling tent-show Chautauquas… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“[T]he world as described is included in but is not the same as the world as it is. As a way of… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
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