Arthur E. Powell Quotes

The student should bear in mind that the very essence of consciousness is constantly to identify itself with the Not-Self, and as constantly to re-assert itself by rejecting the Not-Self. Consciousness, in fact, consists of this alternating assertion and negation - "I am this" - "I am not this." Hence consciousness is, and causes in matter, the attracting and repelling that we call a vibration.

Arthur E. Powell

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• My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

  

  Karl Kraus
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• There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

  

  Carl Jung
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• His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
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• No matter how I'm doing financially, the Depression has never disappeared from my consciousness. To this day, I hate waste. When neckties went from narrow to wide, I kept all my old ones until the style went back to narrow.

  

  Lee Iacocca
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• Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.

  

  Alexander Haig
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• The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.

  

  Luciano Berio
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• Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
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• Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.

  

  Kingsley Amis
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• My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events.

  

  Lisa Ling
  • World
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• I see myself as a man who is searching for meaning in life. This is rather different from being a staunch believer in something. A believer is someone who senses a consciousness or a direction and believes in it. The one who searches for meaning has not found the direction yet.

  

  Aharon Appelfeld
  • Life
  • Believe
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• I believe I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I've found that just surviving is a noble fight. I once believed in causes too; I had my pointless points of view. And life went on no matter who as wrong or right.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Life
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• The real transformation of the world comes not from what we are doing but from the consciousness from which we are doing it.

  

  Marianne Williamson
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• The way to have the life we want is to receive more deeply the life we have. Sometimes we keep our own life at arm's length, thinking we'll wait until circumstances improve before giving it all we've got. But life is just a reflection of consciousness, so it's never going to give any more to us than we give to it. Don't wait for a perfect life; breathe in the life that's already perfect.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Giving

• Real liberation for men means that they can explore and integrate their feminine aspects of consciousness.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Men
  • Real
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• Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Art
  • Society
  • Individual

• Primary consciousness is a kind of ‘remembered present’…

  

  David Lewis-Williams
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• Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.

  

  Aristotle
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  • False
  • Following

• I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks it is terrible - and then I lose consciousness of everything. But that spurs me on to work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste in what he does.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
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  • Mad
  • Danger

• Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.

  

  Plato
  • Wine
  • Gods
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• I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • People
  • Parents
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• Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Power

• They're called cliches because they're true, you know. Besides, life is quite complicated enough...

  

  Elizabeth Noble
  • Life
  • True
  • Cliches

• I'm in a mainline church, I'm very aware, especially as I move through community churches and new-start churches that are making real efforts not to associate themselves with traditional denominations - very often they have no history. They have no institutional memory.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • History
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  • Church

• The student should bear in mind that the very essence of consciousness is constantly to identify itself with the Not-Self, and as constantly to re-assert itself by rejecting the Not-Self. Consciousness, in fact, consists of this alternating assertion and negation - "I am this" - "I am not this." Hence consciousness is, and causes in matter, the attracting and repelling that we call a vibration.

  

  Arthur E. Powell
  • Consciousness
  • Assertion
  • Negation