Consciousness Quotes - Page 39

• Everything which is, is thought, but not conscious and individual thought. The human intelligence is but the consciousness of being. It is what I have formulated before: Everything is a symbol of a symbol, and a symbol of what? Of mind.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Mind, Individual, Symbols

  Entry for December 30, 1850, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• There is a brief time for sex, and a long time when sex is out of place. But when it is out of place as an activity there still should be the large and quiet space in the consciousness where it lives quiescent. Old people can have a lovely quiescent sort of sex, like apples, leaving the young quite free for their sort.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sex, Apples, Space

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton, Keith Sagar (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.106, Cambridge University Press

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• The goal is to know how not-to-know.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Knowledge, Goal, Know How

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8261, Delphi Classics

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• Every profound new movement makes a great swing also backwards to some older, half-forgotten way of consciousness.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Change, Swings, Profound

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.80, Cambridge University Press

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• Our civilisation cannot afford to let the censor-moron loose. The censor-moron does not really hate anything but the living and growing human consciousness.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Hate, Civilization, Doe

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.414, Cambridge University Press

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• That is the real pivot of all bourgeois consciousness in all countries: fear and hate of the instinctive, intuitional, procreativebody in man or woman. But of course this fear and hate had to take on a righteous appearance, so it became moral, said that the instincts, intuitions and all the activities of the procreative body were evil, and promised a reward for their suppression. That is the great clue to bourgeois psychology: the reward business.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Country, Sex, Real

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8966, Delphi Classics

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• Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Destiny, Enemy, Oneself

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• The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.

  Nhat Hanh

  Lying, Quality, Seeds

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Understanding Our Mind”, p.43, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• To dine, drink champagne, raise a racket and make speeches about the people's consciousness, the people's conscience, freedom andso forth while servants in tails are scurrying around your table, just like serfs, and out in the severe cold on the street await coachmen--this is the same as lying to the holy spirit.

  Anton Chekhov

  Lying, People, Hypocrisy

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• For once you rise to a level of God consciousness you will understand that you are not responsible for any other human soul, and that while it is commendable to wish every soul to live in comfort, each soul must choose - is choosing - its own destiny this instant.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Destiny

  "Conversations with God". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, December 1998.

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• Silence is the medium of source between you and your ego consciousness.

  Gopichand Lagadapati

  Silence, Ego, Source

  Twitter post from Jul 03, 2013

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• The naive which is simultaneously beautiful, poetic, and idealistic, must be both intention and instinct. The essence of intention, in this sense, is freedom. Consciousness is far from intention. There is a certain enamoured contemplation of one's own naturalness or silliness which itself is unspeakably silly. Intention does not necessarily require a profound calculation or plan.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Beautiful, Silly, Essence

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• value exists only where there is consciousness. Where nothing ever is felt, nothing matters.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Matter, Felt, Values

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• The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.

  Henry David Thoreau

  God, Men, Unconsciousness

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.348

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• Consciousness is cerebral celebrity--nothing more and nothing less. Those contents are conscious that persevere, that monopolize resources long enough to achieve certain typical and "symptomatic" effects--on memory, on the control of behavior and so forth.

  Daniel Dennett

  Memories, Long, Typical

  Daniel Clement Dennett (1998). “Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds”, p.137, MIT Press

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• Death is a withdrawal of consciousness. It's like taking attention from here and putting it there.

  Esther Hicks

  Change, Withdrawal, Attention

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• The coming to consciousness is not a discovery of some new thing; it is a long and painful return to that which has always been.

  Helen M. Luke

  Discovery, Long, Return

  Helen M. Luke (1975). “Dark wood to white rose: a study of meanings in Dante's Divine comedy”

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• Unconscious of your story, you are in its grasp; but with consciousness, an alchemical process begins: The solidity of the complex dissolves and you can open up to the arrival of a new archetype, the birth of a new cycle of life. In the shadow, then, lies our myth and our fate.

  Connie Zweig

  Life, Lying, Fate

  Connie Zweig, Steven Wolf (2009). “Romancing the Shadow: A Guide to Soul Work for a Vital, Authentic Life”, p.314, Wellspring/Ballantine

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• Sring is the mantra of beauty. Traditionally it is connected with Lakshmi, the Indian goddess of beauty. Chant "Sring" slowly, elongating each sound. As you do, you will see the consciousness of beauty of everywhere.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Sound

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• A writer's self-consciousness, for which he is much scorned, is really a mode of interestedness, that inevitably turns outward.

  John Updike

  Self, Turns, Scorned

  1989 Self-Consciousness, I.'A Soft Spring Night in Shillington'

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• We have good reason to believe that memories of early childhood do not persist in consciousness because of the absence or fragmentary character of language covering this period. Words serve as fixatives for mental images. . . . Even at the end of the second year of life when word tags exist for a number of objects in the child's life, these words are discrete and do not yet bind together the parts of an experience or organize them in a way that can produce a coherent memory.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Memories, Children, Believe

  Selma H. Fraiberg (2015). “The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• The wise man does nothing but what can be done openly and without falseness, nor does he do anything whereby he may involve himself in any wrong-doing, even where he may escape notice. For he is guilty in his own eyes before being so in the eyes of others; and the publicity of his crime does not bring him more shame than his own consciousness of it.

  Ambrose

  Wise, Eye, Men

  St. Ambrose (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Ambrose (Annotated Edition)”, p.191, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Inwardness is the characteristic feature of the vegetable rather than the animal approach to existence. The animals move, migrate and swarm, while plants hold fast. Plants live in a dimension characterised by solid state, the fixed and the enduring. If there is movement in the consciousness of plants then it must be the movement of spirit and attention in the domain of vegetal imagination. (...) This is the truth that the shamans have always known and practiced. Awareness of the green side of mind was called Veriditas by the twelfth century visionary Hildegard Von Bingen.

  Terence McKenna

  Moving, Animal, Vegetables

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• In my lifetime, I've met a lot of people who never rode a wave, but we share the same consciousness. Surfing is a kind of a state of mind... I mean, it's a feeling that people have about their life that really, in a way, kind of makes them a surfer.

  Gerry Lopez

  Mean, People, Surfing

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• All I'm saying is that minerals are just a rudimentary form of consciousness whereas the other people are saying that consciousness is a complicated form of minerals.

  Alan Watts

  People, Complicated, Form

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