I suggest that just as self-consciousness is the goal for all the subhuman forms of life, and as group consciousness, or the… — Alice Bailey Copy Share Image
“Be soul-conscious not self-conscious. Self-consciousness is egocentric and soul-consciousness is spiritual.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
“I’ve come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The mind cannot fall asleep as long as it watches itself. Only when the mind moves unwatched and becomes absorbed in images… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Great acting can be almost a psychotic mix of self-consciousness and unself-consciousness. And thats the terrible conflict. You have to be free… — Alec Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Primary purposes of a mirror: (1) To help civilized men realize their imperfections, and, (2) To help the imperfect hide their imperfections.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, it's self-consciousness. — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
Well, think of what I’m doing to you right now. For me I’m the self, and you’re the object. For you, of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“One-night stands were invented to free men from worrying about the size of their penis. And to free women from worrying about… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The kinds of roles dogs fill can be hard to come by in human relationships. We touch the dog or the pet… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
My own emotional health issues were bullying me during the time I was drafting that poem. It was a pressure I couldn't… — Gregory Pardlo Copy Share Image
You don't meditate to experiment with altered states of consciousness or whatever else. You meditate only to perceive by yourself that everything… — Daniel Odier Copy Share Image
The time is probably not far distant when music will stand revealed perchance as the mightiest of the arts, and certainly as… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
“She tries to maintain a nondescript exterior; she learns the sideways glance instead of looking at people directly. She speaks in practised,… — Mohammed Hanif Copy Share Image
Like the periwig and the bowler bat, the plus-four and the bow-tie, the blazer is on the way out, and those who… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
There is not enough self-consciousness about what a family can be, about what it can inherit from forbearers, and what new traditions… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
A real woman understands that man was created to be the initiator, and she operates on that premise. This is primarily a… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The beauty in the losing is a loss finally of self-consciousness. There's a gorgeous moment that can happen in all kinds of… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
Insecurity refers to a profoud sense of self-doubt-a deep feeling of uncertainty about our basic worth and our place in the world.… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
If we compare a severely defective human infant with a nonhuman animal, a dog or a pig, for example, we will often… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
