“As a composer, I believe that music has the power to inspire a renewal of human consciousness, culture, and politics. And yet I refuse to make political art. More often than not political art fails as politics, and all too often it fails as art. To reach its fullest power, to be most moving and most fully useful to us, art must be itself.” BelieveHumansArtMovingPoliticalCultureI BelieveConsciousnessFailingInspireRefuseComposerRenewalHuman ConsciousnessPolitical Art Author:John Luther Adams
“Miracles have a purpose. Miracles help people believe in enlightenment. The real miracle is the transformation of consciousness from limitation and pain to enlightenment and ecstasy.” PeopleBelieveRealHelpingPainPurposeConsciousnessTeacherEnlightenmentMiracleTransformationLimitationEnlightenedEcstasy Author:Frederick Lenz
“I am willing to believe that my unobtainable sixty seconds within a sponge or a flatworm might not reveal any mental acuity that I would care to call consciousness. But I am also confident [...] that vultures and sloths, as close evolutionary relatives with the same basic set of organs, lie on our side of any meaningful (and necessarily fuzzy) border and that we are therefore not mistaken when we look them in the eye and see a glimmer of emotional and conceptual affinity.” BelieveLooksMightEyeCareLyingSidesConsciousnessEmotionalWillingMeaningfulBordersSecondsOrgansSixtyMistakenSlothAffinitySpongesFuzzyVulture Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“When we say 'time', I believe we mean at least two things. We mean changes. And we mean something unchangeable. We mean something that moves . but against an unmoving background. And vice versa.Animals can sense changes. But consciousness of time involves the double sense of constancy and change. Which can only be attributed to those who give expression to it. And that can only be done through language, and only man has language.The perception of time and language are inextricably bound up with one another.” MenGivingBelieveMeanTwoDoneMovingLanguageI BelieveAnimalConsciousnessExpressionPerceptionBoundsVicesBackgroundsTwo ThingsVice VersaConstancyUnchangeable Book:Borderliners: A Novel Source: Borderliners: A Novel
“And I believe that if 100 million people became embodiments of peace, the world would transform, because consciousness is a collective phenomenon. And what we see as good and evil is the balance between forces.” PeopleIfsWorldBelieveEvilForceI BelieveConsciousnessMillionsBalanceGood And EvilCollectivesPhenomenonEmbodiment Author:Deepak Chopra