“But if there is such a thing as social commitment in literature, I think it must manifest itself in a reader's awareness of the human condition, in the writer's touching some common nerve ending. I think this kind of social commitment, like a lady's slip, should be there but it must not show.” IfsThinkingShouldHumansKindShowsLiteratureSocialCommonConditionsAwarenessReaderCommitmentNervesManifestTouchingSlipsHuman Condition Author:Bel Kaufman
“Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.” TimeSpaceConsciousnessPsychologyAwarenessFieldsConsciousPropertyManifestTranscendencePsychiatristLinearTranscendingCausalitySpace Time Author:Stanislav Grof
“Dunbar-Ortiz strips us of our forged innocence, shocks us into new awareness, and draws a straight line from the sins of our fathers-settler-colonialism, the doctrine of discovery, the myth of manifest destiny, white supremacy, theft and systematic killing-to the contemporary condition of permanent war, invasion and occupation, mass incarceration, and the constant use and threat of state violence.” WarStatesUseFatherLinesSinWhiteDestinyViolenceConditionsAwarenessMassDrawsDiscoveryConstantThreatKillingMythDoctrineContemporaryInnocencePermanentShockOccupationManifestColonialismWhite SupremacyInvasionOur FatherTheftSystematicSupremacyStraight LinesForgedIncarcerationSettlersMass IncarcerationManifest Destiny Author:Bill Ayers
“What we're calling 'presencing' is possible because of this womb, where the absolute and the manifest interact. I think a buddhist would say that presencing can arise to the extent that we develop the capacity, individually and collectively, to extend our conscious awareness in both domains.” ThinkingAwarenessCallingConsciousCapacityAbsolutesAriseBuddhistManifestDomainWombConscious Awareness Book:Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society Source: Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society
“Self-actualizing people - highly functioning people who live at extraordinary levels of awareness - train their minds to focus on what they intend to create and what they intend to manifest, and they won't let anybody change their mind.” PeopleMindSelfLevelsFocusAwarenessTrainExtraordinaryManifest Author:Wayne Dyer