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Consciousness Quotes
"Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable."
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"It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living."
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"I feel that the change, the mutation in consciousness, will occur spontaneously once certain pressures now in operation are removed. I feel that the principal instrument of monopoly and control that prevents expansion of consciousness is the word lines controlling thought, feeling and apparent sensory impressions of the human host."
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"A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow."
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"My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious."
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"And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it."
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"There is no coming to consciousness without pain."
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"Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness."
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"I've heard it argued that long ago pain begat consciousness...Adversity forced awareness on us, and it works, it bites us when we go too near the fire, when we love too hard. Those felt sensations are the beginning of the invention of the self...God said, Let there be pain. And there was poetry. Eventually."
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"The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive."
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"We are all either conditioned by belief system or consciousness. Belief system is built through the world, consciousness is built from within."
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"We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us."
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"Spirituality, sexuality and curiosity are the three pillars of Modern Human Consciousness."
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"The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness."
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"The higher consciousness feel the most pain because they search for the darkness in order to bring it to the light and thus feel the most pleasure."
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"The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion."
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"Changing mass consciousness is an individual responsibility."
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"Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony."
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"When you are aware that you are thinking, that awareness is not part of thinking. It is a different dimension of consciousness. It is that awareness that says "I AM"."
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"Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed."
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"Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is."
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"I was born with a serious spiritual consciousness and for many years studied different paths."
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"Nothing exists except through human consciousness."
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"An unconscious consciousness is no more a contradiction in terms than an unseen case of seeing."
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"I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness."
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"Where there is no consciousness, there is no time."
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"The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness."
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"Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh."
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"Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences."
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"The party in Alobar's head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged."
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"This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness."
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"I don't think the British carry a historical consciousness either."
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"The complex organic device that creates and thereafter drives consciousness, is the human brain. Consciousness evolved hand in hand with the evolution of the human brain throughout a time span of six million years."
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"His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours."
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"There are three levels of consciousness. The first level is when you stop thinking and letting outside sources think for you. In which you become a different mind. The second is simply thinking. The third the highest form of consciousness. Is when you rise ABOVE thought. Transcend thought by shutting it completely off."
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"Consciousness of unconsciousness."
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"The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity."
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"Analysis does not transform consciousness."
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"Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing with the erotic not only in sexual terms."
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"Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness."
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"There are a great number of Republicans who are economically conservative but have hearts and a consciousness about their country."
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"Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness."
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"I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness."
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"Before you sleep, experience yourself as what you really are by recognizing the vast space inside you, and feeling the Energy-Consciousness, LifeParticles, overflowing through the space and through your body."
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"All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat."
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"Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make up the unity of one continuous consciousness of one and the same object."
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"They are of the dream time. I don't understand it, I can't say it in words. Everything dreams. The play of form, of being, is the dreaming of substance. Rocks have their dreams, and the earth changes. . . .But when the mind becomes conscious, when the rate of evolution speeds up, then you have to be careful. Careful of the world. You must learn the way. You must learn the skills, the art, the limits. A conscious mind must be part of the whole, intentionally and carefully--as the rock is part of the whole unconsciously. Do you see? Does it mean anything to you?"
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"For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell."
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