Consciousness Quotes - Page 36

• Whereas banking education anesthetizes and inhibits creative power, problem-posing education involves a constant unveiling of reality.  The former attempts to maintain the submersion of consciousness; the latter strives for the emergence of consciousness and critical intervention in reality.

  Paulo Freire

  Reality, Creative, Unveiling

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.58, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I know there's a consciousness energy that operates completely independent of the physical body you inhabit, that maintains... awareness after the body's gone.

  Phoebe Snow

  Independent, Energy, Gone

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• Or maybe it is only that we are so habitually inattentive that when some rare but simple geometry grabs us by the shoulders and shakes us into consciousness, we call our response sacred.

  Charles Frazier

  Simple, Sacred, Shoulders

  Charles Frazier (2006). “Thirteen Moons: A Novel”, p.97, Random House

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• Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be unthinkable without this representation.

  Antonio Damasio

  Self, Feelings, Would Be

  "Feeling Our Emotions". Interview with Manuela Lenzen, www.scientificamerican.com.

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• How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I've always known that in my writing it is the dark troubled sea of which I know nothing, save its presence, that carried me. I've always felt that creating was a fearless and a timid, a despairing and hopeful, launching out into that unknown.

  Athol Fugard

  Beach, Writing, Dark

  Athol Fugard (1983). “Notebooks, 1960-1977”

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• Obviously, therefore, we must be able to transcribe what is in us into our mental and objective consciousness, by establishing a relationship between the life in us and observation of that life in Nature. This we find supremely well expressed by the ancient Egyptians. It is a knowledge of magic, pure and sane, which can lead rapidly toward the spiritual goal of our lives, owing to the fact that we can evoke, by means of the sympathy of analogues in our surroundings, the consciousness of the heart latent in us.

  R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz

  Spiritual, Heart, Mean

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• Fiction has subversive potential. People let it into their minds, like the Trojan Horse. They don't know what's inside. You hook them with the story, and God can work below the level of their consciousness. Fiction can be propaganda for evil or convey a theme that impacts people for good.

  Randy Alcorn

  Horse, Impact, Evil

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• Some American delusions: 1) That there is no class-consciousness in the country. 2) That American coffee is good. 3) That Americans are business-like. 4) That Americans are highly-sexed and that redheads are more highly sexed than others.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Country, Travel, Coffee

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• The memories which peaceful country scenes call up, are not of this world, nor of its thoughts and hopes. Their gentle influence may teach us how to weave fresh garlands for the graves of those we loved: may purify our thoughts, and bear down before it old enmity and hatred; but beneath all this, there lingers, in the least reflective mind, a vague and half-formed consciousness of having held such feelings long before, in some remote and distant time, which calls up solemn thoughts of distant times to come, and bends down pride and worldliness beneath it.

  Charles Dickens

  Country, Nature, Memories

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Oliver Twist”, p.199, Pan Macmillan

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• Soul one might say is more imperfectly infinite than spirit, because soul tends to abolish the ego-consciousness that it absorbs or overwhelms, reducing its particularizing structure to pure sublime feeling (immediacy); but spirit is more successfully infinite than soul, even though also more difficult and abstruse, because it digests the functions of consciousness into itself and thus preserves and deploys the senses and intelligence of conscious ego to higher ends.

  Kenny Smith

  Ego, Soul, Feelings

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• Either over neither, both over either/or, live-and-let-live over stand-or die, high spirits over low, energy over apathy, wit over dullness, jokes over homilies, good humor over jokes, good nature over bad, feeling over sentiment, truth over poetry, consciousness over explanations, tragedy over pathos, comedy over tragedy, entertainment over art, private over public, generosity over meanness, charity over murder, love over charity, irreplaceable over interchangeable, divergence over concurrence, principle over interest, people over principle.

  Marvin Mudrick

  Art, People, Generosity

  Marvin Mudrick (1981). “Nobody Here But Us Chickens”

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• There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.

  Dan Harmon

  Lines, Brooks, Fine

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• I like the company of men. I've never been welcome in those groups, but then I would no more go to a consciousness-raising group and talk about my intimate life with my husband than fly to the moon. I never understood all that.

  Nancy Friday

  Husband, Moon, Men

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• Our perception of space-time can be thought of in terms of event coordinates relative to our current state of consciousness.

  Wayne Gerard Trotman

  Space, Perception, Events

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• All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology.

  Lynn Margulis

  Compare, Ecology, Humans

  "Attack of the Microbiologists" by Elizabeth Royte, www.nytimes.com. 1996.

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• From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.

  George Orwell

  Book, Writing, Should Have

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.309, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• After modernism, things changed. Indeed, modernism sometimes seems to me like an equivalent of the Fall. Remember, the first thing Adam and Eve did when they ate the fruit was to discover that they had no clothes on. They were embarrassed. Embarrassment was the first consequence of the Fall. And embarrassment was the first literary consequence of this modernist discovery of the surface. "Am I telling a story? Oh my God, this is terrible. I must stop telling a story and focus on the minute gradations of consciousness as they filter through somebody's.

  Philip Pullman

  Fall, Discovery, Clothes

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• Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendos.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Guilt, Grit

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, Wordsworth Editions

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• A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single instrument--a piano, say, which is a little orchestra in itself. Such a man is a little world in himself; and the effect produced by various instruments together, he produces single-handed, in the unity of his own consciousness. Like the piano, he has no place in a symphony; he is a soloist and performs by himself--in soli tude, it may be; or if in the company with other instruments, only as principal; or for setting the tone, as in singing.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Artist, Symphony

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• It is just man's turning away from instinct--his opposing himself to instinct--that creates consciousness. Instinct is nature andseeks to perpetuate nature; while consciousness can only seek culture or its denial.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Denial, Culture

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.98, Psychology Press

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• Sometimes, some of us in some things we do know better. When we know better, I think it's imperative that we do better. Otherwise we're perpetuating myths that have for centuries done us no good. Men and women alike. No one is exempt from being called into consciousness.

  Jill Alexander Essbaum

  Men, Thinking, Good Man

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Ego is an immature stage of development for humans, and that's what it will be recognized as when the consciousness changes on the planet. Children will develop an ego and quickly outgrow it. That's very different from developing an ego and being stuck with it for the rest of your life.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Children, Ego, Immature

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• There are many things that are still uncertain and that probably nobody knows, because so many factors determine what form the transformation of consciousness on our planet takes.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Transformation, Uncertain, Planets

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• It is quite possible even that the planet would no longer be able to sustain human life. Probably, the planet eventually would regenerate and produce some other life form. Consciousness would flow into some other life form and express itself through that, whatever that would be.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Would Be, Able, Flow

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• The difference between highly functioning people and people who live with ordinary levels of consciousness is that the self-actualizers never put their intention on what they don't want. They know that what you think about is what expands.

  Wayne Dyer

  Thinking, Self, Differences

  Source: www.drwaynedyer.com

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