Consciousness Quotes
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How many of his small gestures and postures in the present were embodied echoes of the past, repetitions just beneath the threshold of his consciousness? What would happen to the past if you brought those involuntary muscle memories under your control and edited them, edited them out?
Ben Lerner
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There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
Orison Swett Marden
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Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
Ramana Maharshi
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
Carl Jung
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
Ramana Maharshi
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
Seneca the Younger
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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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When I'm on the operating table, I'm happy for the surgeon to treat me as a machine, but the moment I return to consciousness I have other needs and aspirations that should be recognized. We're not here only to survive or extend our individual or species life but to do something seemingly more difficult, for which I've used words and phrases like 'love' and the 'Kingdom of God'.
George Pattison
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I don't believe there are any powers, which in the larger sense, are unnatural or even supernatural. I think we just do not yet scientifically understand all of the powers inherent in the human consciousness, and the more attuned we are to the realm of spirit, the more our conscious mind is available to subconscious, spiritual prompting.
Marianne Williamson
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There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.
Dan Harmon
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We're here to learn how to worship consciousness and radiance, evoke it in each other, and tolerate nothing less than our deepest love.
David Deida
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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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After death the soul possesses self-consciousness, otherwise, it would be the subject of spiritual death, which has already been disproved. With this self-consciousness necessarily remains personality and the consciousness of personal identity.
Immanuel Kant
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There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Carl Jung
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Marcus Garvey was one of the first advocates of Black Power, and is still today the greatest spokesman ever to have been produced by the movement of Black Consciousness...He spoke to all Africans on the earth, whether they lived in Africa, South America, the West Indies or North America, and he made Blacks aware of their strength when united.
Walter Rodney
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The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.
J. M. Coetzee
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The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.
Stephen Sondheim
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Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.
Leon Trotsky
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Consciousness rap - a term that I don't think exactly exists but gets thrown around a lot - is not exactly popular.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
Lao Tzu
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You should do whatever feels right in your deepest heart. Feel deep as consciousness, open as water, now, and feel how to live with a wide-open heart. Feel how to live as love without bondage.
David Deida
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The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
D. H. Lawrence
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We are consciousness. We may not always be monkeys.
Terence McKenna
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It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education – aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness – presented alienated forms of our true historical being.
Hans-Georg Gadamer