The aim of Zen training is to attain the state of consciousness which occurs when the individual ego is emptied of itself… — Anne Bancroft Copy Share Image
To be still means to empty yourself from the incessant flow of thoughts and create a state of consciousness that is open… — John Daido Loori Copy Share Image
When I experienced altered states of consciousness, my whole philosophical structure crumbled, and that terrified me. And what scared me the most… — Susan Schneider Copy Share Image
Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Another thing that's good about writing to describe a situation or a state of consciousness is that you can finally get it… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
There is only one real computer - the universe - whose hardware is made up of non-spatial states of consciousness and software… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Ten minutes in a video store should convince any impartial observer that we live in a police state of consciousness, far more… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
Having reached a high level of realization (or having accomplished anything in life), don't get excited or puffed up with pride but… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The states of consciousness are all that psychology needs to do her work with. Metaphysics or theology may prove the Soul to… — William James Copy Share Image
It isn't so much that God is the unified state of consciousness that each of us came from and will return to,… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
You can enjoy the present moment, and you can be aligned with the doing. A different state of consciousness, then, is the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When we pause to think, we are compelled to admit the existence of consciousness as the primal and surest fact. What we… — Horatio Dresser Copy Share Image
Whether it is seen in personal terms or trans-personal terms, whether it is Heaven or Nirvana or Happy Hunting Ground or the… — John Smith Copy Share Image
It is not advisable for persons who are in the early stages of meditation to mediate on the two lower chakras. You… — Frederick Lenz 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
From the standpoint of our spiritual development, it might be important for us to realize that we came from an unknown somewhere;… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
Though we [Humanists] take a strict position on what constitutes knowledge, we are not critical of the source of ideas. Often intuitive… — Fred Edwords Copy Share Image
But to change all existence into a flow experience, it is not sufficient to learn merely how to control moment-by-moment states of… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Our society values alert, problem-solving consciousness, and it devalues all other states of consciousness. Any kind of consciousness that is not related… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
To all appearances the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Art arises in those strange complexities of action that are called human beings. It is a kind of human behavior. As such… — Baker Brownell Copy Share Image
The planet will not survive another hundred years of the same state of consciousness that produced the external effects of recent history. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Compassion is one of the highest states of consciousness that you can choose to assist you in times of enormous pain. — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
I am optimistic that humanity is going to make it, that humanity is going to reach, finally, a new state of consciousness… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united. — Jack London Copy Share Image
Ritual use of psychedelic plants and substances has been a particularly effective technology for inducing holotropic states of consciousness. — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
What you encounter at your destination once you get there depends on the quality of this one step. Another way of putting… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Our difficulties launch us into new states of consciousness where we are inspired to step out of the reality of our smallest… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
What we do and what we experience has a direct correlation with our habitual states of consciousness and mental states. The more… — Roy Davis Copy Share Image
The witness of the three states of consciousness [waking, dream and deep sleep] and of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss is the Self — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
One must remember that the higher he climbs the spiritual ladder toward the Kingdom of Heaven, the more will he grant others… — Paul Twitchell Copy Share Image
So it's really a process of actually having a realization of God, which all becomes clear with the expanded state of consciousness… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
We are personally responsible for our own state of consciousness. As Soul unfolds toward total freedom, It understands total responsibility must be… — Harold Klemp Copy Share Image
Everyone has sunk on this plane to such a low state of consciousness, it is the natural state. We have deviated so… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What I don't like in movies dealing with the illustration of altered states of consciousness is that usually you see the guy… — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
People enter states of consciousness where they think they've become enlightened. The best thing to do, if you've gone through one of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The mastery of any subject requires that one identify himself with the particular state of consciousness appropriate to that subject. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our perception of space-time can be thought of in terms of event coordinates relative to our current state of consciousness. — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
The Yoga Sutras offers a clear roadmap for the evolution of consciousness from ordinary states of awareness such as waking, dreaming, and… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image