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Consciousness Quotes
"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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"There are a great number of Republicans who are economically conservative but have hearts and a consciousness about their country."
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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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"Well, to tell you the truth, I've thought of it often and often before, but he's such devilish good company is Huntingdon, after all - you can't imagine what a jovial good fellow he is when he's not fairly drunk, only just primed or half - seas - over - we all have a bit of a liking for him at the bottom of our hearts, though we can't respect him.'But should you wish yourself to be like him?'No, I'd rather be like myself, bad as I am."
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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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"In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah."
31
"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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"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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"Thoughts. Your imagination. The voices inside your head. They're all the same thing and spirit is what fuels it."
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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."
28
"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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"Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses."
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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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"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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"Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness."
27
"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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"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 mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness."
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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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"When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness."
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"Consciousness is the glory of creation."
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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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"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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"It's from our sufferings that we form our 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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"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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"The Universe is alive, conscious, and aware."
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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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"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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"Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness."
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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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"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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"There are other beings live in between interval rhythms of our consciousness."
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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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"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."
20
"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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"I (God) am only a part of your own human consciousness, but a really bizarre part."
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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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"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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"This was his mind, a storehouse, a computer programmed to life, minute by minute, hour by hour, day and night."
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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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"A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers."
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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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"Man thinks many things. He thinks he is One. He is usually several. Until he becomes One, he cannot have a fair idea of what he is at all."
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"That which is capable of perceiving objective reality is, in Sufism, the human soul (ruh)."
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"Consciousness resides in the gap between electrons, protons, and neutrons."
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"Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness."
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"There's no consciousness without senses and memories."
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"The heart is the door to our inner woman. The heart is the door to our inner world. The power chakra relates to the inner man. The power chakra relates to the outer world. Irrespective of if we are a man or a woman, the inner woman is the center of our consciousness."
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