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Consciousness Quotes
"The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from psychology at large and, specifically, from the descriptive psychology of the phenomena of consciousness."
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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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"The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness."
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"Like the spider spinning its web, we create much of the outer world from within ourselves. The universe is a joint product of the observer and the observed."
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"Treatment for dependency at substance abuse treatment centers must change if alcoholism and addiction are to be overcome in our society."
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"Here, the broader issues are already familiar, and discussion has focused at a more sophisticated and detailed level. Within the philosophy of mind, the problem of consciousness is no big news."
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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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"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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"A bitter awareness that everything is a sensation of mine and at the same time something external, something not in my power to change. Ah, how often my own dreams have raised up before me as things, not to replace reality but to declare themselves its equal."
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"Our consciousness is a proof of our existence in this life.It's a chance given to us, to find a way to reach the eternity."
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"If one is unfamiliar with the infinite power of the subconscious mind, then one is absolutely far from living up to one's true potential in life."
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"Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that has been attached to the topic for most of this century."
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"Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness."
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"The seventh element is 'consciousness' that raises a human from the basic corporeal state and takes them to super - consciousness."
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"Thoughts. Your imagination. The voices inside your head. They're all the same thing and spirit is what fuels it."
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"The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness."
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"Working rightly, the brain is the highest form of "instinctual wisdom." Thus it should work like the homing instinct of pigeons and the formation of the foetus in the womb - without verbalizing the process of knowing "how" it does it. The self-conscious brain, like the self-conscious heart, is a disorder, and manifests itself in the acute feeling of separation between "I" and my experience."
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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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"In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah."
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"When you recognize that you will thrive not in spite of your losses and sorrows, but because of them, that you would not have chosen the things that happened in your life, but you are grateful for them, that you will hold the empty bowls eternally in your hands, but you also have the capacity to fill them?THE WORD FOR THAT IS HEALING."
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"Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious."
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"Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses."
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"It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious."
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"Consciousness is the glory of creation."
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"When we develop the heart chakra, we begin to influence the surroundings with our spiritual presence. When we develop the communication chakra, we begin to influence the country with our spiritual presence. When we develop the seventh chakra, we begin to influence the world with our spiritual presence without doing anything."
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"As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself."
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"The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness."
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"When I write, I enter a transpersonal state of consciousness, a lightheaded realm of mental imagination, a cognitive place where I can lithely finger the coherent and the absurd. I seek to cross over an intricate boarder where the conscious and unconscious minds meet, traversing the aperture where the real and the imaginary intermingle. I aspire to establish a detached vantage point where I can survey the entire human condition."
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"Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind."
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"A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view."
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"I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world."
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"The Universe is alive, conscious, and aware."
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"This was his mind, a storehouse, a computer programmed to life, minute by minute, hour by hour, day and night."
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"When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness."
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"Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness."
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"A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers."
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"It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness."
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"Time present and time pastAre both perhaps present in time futureAnd time future contained in time past."
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"The Ferryman will transport us across the moat, Chris informed. 'Yeah. This seems legit, Gabriella quipped as Chris helped her onto the boat. Andrew followed behind.'Are you sure this isn't a trick? Egnatious asked.Again, uncertainty filtered into Chris's blue eyes, but he nodded anyway. 'This is the only way."
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"When you are saying "I", it is actually the billions of neurons in your brain collectively expressing their functional existence."
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"I (God) am only a part of your own human consciousness, but a really bizarre part."
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"Neuron is to Consciousness, what D.N.A. is to Life. Thus, Biology of Mind is to the twenty-first century, what Biology of Life was to the twentieth century."
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"But even them, my pains, I understand ill. That must come from my not being all pain and nothing else. There's the rub. Then they recede, or I, till they fill me with amaze and wonder, seen from a better planet. Not often, but I ask no more. Catch-cony life! To be nothing but pain, how that would simplify matters! Omnidolent! Impious dream."
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"There are other beings live in between interval rhythms of our consciousness."
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"Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer."
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"A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it."
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"Your mind is the knife that cuts the continuum of space and time into neat slices of linear experience."
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"Even more remote from his way of thinking, even more impossible than any other thought, would have been words such as this: "Is it only I alone who have created this experience, or is it objective reality? Does the Master have the same feelings as I, or would mine amuse him? Are my thoughts new, unique, my own, or have the Master and many before him experienced and thought exactly the same? No, for him there were no such analyses and differentiations. Everything was reality, was steeped in reality, full of it as bread dough is of yeast."
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"My experience of that liberation, what Buddha had called Nirvana, set me off in the path of scientific investigation of that Oneness, the thing people call, meeting with God. And that meeting triggered an unquenchable thirst in me to develop a proper scientific method to understand and further explore that apparently bizarre domain of Universal Consciousness."
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"On the high-end spectrum of emotions, which are innately connected to intuition and direct comprehension as well as imagination and creativity, meaning true empathy and knowledge, appreciative realization, transformation and invention, one finds a richer and more voluptuous combination of experience. Unfortunately, to "get there, one has to be willing to sacrifice what is known for what is not."
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