Civilized Quote by Nicolas Winding Refn

Living from our deepest understanding requires an enormous effort, especially when it goes against the stream of our instinctually programmed perceptions of the world.

— Stephen Batchelor

We have learned to express the more delicate nuances of feeling by penetrating more deeply into the mysteries of harmony.

— Robert Schumann

Consciously or subconsciously, we become slaves to debt and social obligation. As a result, we end up more committed to the minutia and less…

— Romany Malco

“To gain a true understanding of human experience, we must understand both our conscious and our unconscious selves, and how they interact. Our subliminal…

— Leonard Mlodinow

For the past several generations we've forgotten what the psychologists call our archaic understanding, a willingness to know things in their deepest, most mythic…

— Madeleine L'Engle

We come to understand the law of casuality - that is, we see that all beings are experiencing what they're experiencing based on their…

— Noah Levine

We come to feel as we behave.

— Paul Pearsall

“What separates us from different species is our cognizance and our consciousness, that is - our mind. When we are doing things to deteriorate…

— Davey Havok

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

— Alan Watts

It is the difficult, but unavoidable, task of the modern individual to assimilate consciously all of the contents - from darkest degradation to profoundest…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

“we directly experience that it knows, feels, and wills. In the third place, we experience that there exists some power unifying the intellectual, emotional,…

— Kaiten Nukariya

We must learn to understand humanity better so that we can create an environment that is more beneficial to people, more rewarding, more pleasant…

— Anonymous