Consciousness Quotes - Page 32

• When we have our consciousness on needs, images come to us, naturally, of how to meet those needs.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Needs

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• For it is indeed consciousness that makes the body fully alive, and the body that gives consciousness a place to live.

  Anodea Judith

  Giving, Alive, Body

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• Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Multiplicity

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 9 (February 1766)

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• By 'happiness' I do not mean worldly success or outside approval, though it would be priggish to deny that both these things are most agreeable. I mean the inner consciousness, the inner conviction that one is doing well the thing that one is best fitted to do by nature.

  Edith Sitwell

  Happiness, Mean, Would Be

  Edith Sitwell (Dame), Elizabeth Salter, Allanah Harper (1976). “Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology”, Michael Joseph

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• Mothers and daughters are part of each other's consciousness, in different degrees and in a different way, but still with the mutual sense of something which has always been there. A real mother is just a habit of thought to her children.

  Edith Wharton

  Daughter, Mother, Children

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2743, Delphi Classics

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• There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Rewards, Action, Mere

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• Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,--the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts. We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,--just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all, we are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  School, Elephants, Differences

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.3103, Delphi Classics

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• Man is so great that his greatness appears even in the consciousness of his misery. A tree does not know itself to be miserable. It is true that it is misery indeed to know one's self to be miserable; but then it is greatness also. In this way, all man's miseries go to prove his greatness. They are the miseries of a mighty potentate, of a dethroned monarch.

  Blaise Pascal

  Greatness, Men, Self

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.66

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• The repose necessary to all beauty is repose, not of inanition, nor of luxury, nor of irresolution, but the repose of magnificent energy and being; in action, the calmness of trust and determination; in rest, the consciousness of duty accomplished and of victory won; and this repose and this felicity can take place as well in the midst of trial and tempest, as beside the waters of comfort.

  John Ruskin

  Determination, Luxury, Water

  John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters”, p.107

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• Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

  Ayn Rand

  Identity, Identification, Existence

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.172, Penguin

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• When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Messages, Changing Your Life, Genuine

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.78, Ultramarine Publishing

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• if you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago. ... you must write to the human heart, the great consciousness that all humanity goes to make up. Otherwise what might be strength in a writer is only crudeness, and what might be insight is only observation; sentimemnt falls to sentimentality - you can write about life, but never write life itself.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Fall, Writing, Heart

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• I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.

  Susan Sontag

  Idols, Morality, Sin

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• Relationships are our primary teacher. They are the context in which we either grow into God consciousness, or deny ourselves and others the opportunity to do so.

  Marianne Williamson

  Teacher, Opportunity, Deny

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.122, Random House

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• The popular prophets have underestimated how strange the truth can be. The human brain, that 'perfect instrument,' that 'fabulous electronic dance,' can be our open sesame to an infinitely richer life than we have believed possible. The fluent, liberating, creative, healing attributes of the altered states can be incorporated into consciousness. We are just beginning to realize that we can truly open the doors of perception and creep out of the cavern.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Healing, Doors, Perfect

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• Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Sacrifice, Noble, Alliances

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• "Ask, and it is given" means that whether you are a full blossoming genius human, or whether you are the one-celled amoeba in the ocean, or a cell in one of your bodies, when it is concluded that something else is preferred (no matter how developed the consciousness is) every time a preference is noted, Nonphysical Energy rushes forth to answer it. It is the promise of our evolving beingness.

  Esther Hicks

  Ocean, Mean, Cells

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• Consciousness-Based Education is just plugging us all into the beautiful, eternal field within, and then watching things get better, which is what happens. It's a field of infinite, unbounded peace within every human being, and when you experience it, you enliven that peace.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Get Better, Fields

  "An Ocean of Solutions". Interview with Chris Grosso, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 1, 2014.

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• It's always the negative things that seep through into your consciousness. Most of the positive things just roll off real fast. I just try not to pay attention to it, because I've never read anything about my band that's accurate.

  Conor Oberst

  Real, Trying, Negative

  "Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes". Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. December 11, 2007.

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• These are very confusing times. For the first time in history a woman is expected to combine: intelligence with a sharp hairdo, a raised consciousness with high heels, and an open, nonsexist relationship with a tan guy who has a great bod.

  Lynda Barry

  High Heels, Guy, Confusing

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• Revenge may not be a particularly high consciousness-oriented activity.

  Carrie Fisher

  Forgiveness, Revenge, May

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• From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Class, Hatred, Steps

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2015). “A Poor Wise Man”, p.175, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• It's rare that we actively and consciously 'forget'; most of the time we have simply forgotten, with no consciousness of having forgotten. In individuals, the phenomenon is called 'denial'; in entire cultures and nations, it's usually called 'history.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  History, Denial, Culture

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• It is a depressing fact that Americans tend to confuse morality and art (to the detriment of both) and that, among the educated, morality tends to mean social consciousness.

  Pauline Kael

  Depressing, Art, Mean

  pauline kael (1965). “i lost it at the movies”

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• True felicity consists of its own consciousness.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Felicity

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