Consciousness Quotes - Page 18

• If I want to realize totality in my consciousness, I have to relate myself to an immense, ludicrous, and painful convulsion of all of humanity.

  Georges Bataille

  Humanity, Want, Realizing

  Georges Bataille (2004). “On Nietzsche”, p.26, A&C Black

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• I define a good person as somebody who is fully conscious of their own limitations. They know their strengths, but they also know their shadow - they know their weaknesses. In other words, they understand that there is no good without bad. Good and evil are really one, but we have broken them up in our consciousness. We polarize them.

  John Bradshaw

  Evil, Broken, Shadow

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• People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  People, Brain, Answers

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• Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Ignorance, Men, Thinking

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.70, Commodius Vicus

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• Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

  Laura Riding

  Degrees

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• Consciousness allows you the capacity to plan.

  Gerald Edelman

  Capacity, Plans

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• If the Internet can be described as a giant human consciousness, then viral marketing is the illusion of free will.

  George Pendle

  Marketing, Giants, Internet

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• You expand your consciousness, your ideas, your perceptions. You break away from self-adopted restrictions. You grow as you learn to step aside from limiting conceptions and dogmas.

  Seth

  Self, Ideas, Perception

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• Consciousness is, among other things, a spontaneous exercise in creativity. You are learning now, in a three-dimensional context, the ways in which your emotional and psychic existence can create varieties of physical form. You manipulate within the psychic environment, and these manipulations are then automatically impressed upon the physical mold.

  Seth

  Creativity, Exercise, Emotional

  Jane Roberts, Seth (1972). “Seth speaks: the eternal validity of the soul”, Bookthrift Co

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• Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.

  Jack London

  States, Pursuit, Possession

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.451, Delphi Classics

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• Our consciousness, our ideas, our frame of reference and our belief system determine whether we go to the river of life with a teaspoon, a cup, a bucket or a barrel.

  Robert Anthony

  Ideas, Rivers, Cups

  Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.3, Morgan James Publishing

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• Deep down the consciousness of mankind is one. This is a virtual certainty because even in the vacuum matter is one; and if we don't see this, it's because we are blinding ourselves to it.

  David Bohm

  Vacuums, Matter, Certainty

  David Bohm, Lee Nichol (2003). “The Essential David Bohm”, p.149, Psychology Press

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• Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.

  Colin Wilson

  Reading, Listening, Needs

  "The Origins of the Sexual Impulse" by Colin Wilson, (p. 75), 1963.

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• ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness

  J. W. N. Sullivan

  Art, Real, Self

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• Shiva and Shakti are indistinguishable. They are one. They are the universe. Shiva isn't masculine. Shakti isn't feminine. At the core of their mutual penetration the supreme consciousness opens.

  Daniel Odier

  Shiva, Feminine, Penetration

  Daniel Odier (1997). “Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• All great work artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual is produced at those moments when creators forget themselves altogether and are free from self-consciousness.

  Walpola Rahula

  Spiritual, Self, Intellectual

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• A witnessing consciousness lives in life but with tremendous non-attachment, with great non-possessiveness; it possesses nothing. It lives totally, it lives passionately, but still knowing that I don't possess anything.

  Rajneesh

  Attachment, Knowing, Possessiveness

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• Consciousness is a singular for which there is no plural.

  Erwin Schrodinger

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• Do not think of yourself as the body, but as the joyous consciousness and immortal life behind it.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Thinking, Body, Immortal Life

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• There is a God part in you. The consciousness. The pure Self. Learn to listen the voice of that Power.

  Amit Ray

  Self, Voice, Pure

  Amit Ray (2012). “Nonviolence: The Transforming Power”, p.31, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community.

  Alex Grey

  Art, Giving, Community

  Alex Grey (2017). “The Mission of Art”, p.21, Shambhala Publications

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• All the manifest forms of existence are but illusions. They are momentary displays of consciousness, flashes of lightening in the sky. They are there for a moment and then they are gone.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Sky, Gone

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• Thoughts are just moving through consciousness. They have no power. Nothing has reality until you reach it, grab it, and somehow impregnate it with the power of belief.

  Adyashanti

  Moving, Reality, Belief

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.70, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Moods are in the mind and do not matter. Go within, go beyond. Cease being fascinated by the content of your consciousness. When you reach the deep layers of your true being, you will find that the mind's surface-play affects you very little.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Play, Mind, Littles

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• You are not the body. You are the immensity and infinity of consciousness.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Body, Infinity, Immensity

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