“Very little comes easily to our poor, benighted species (the first creature, after all, to experiment with the novel evolutionary inventions of self-conscious philosophy and art). Even the most "obvious," "accurate," and "natural" style of thinking or drawing must be regulated by history and won by struggle. Solutions must therefore arise within a social context and record the complex interactions of mind and environment that define the possibility of human improvement.” ThinkingMindFirstsHumansLittlesArtSelfPhilosophySocialNaturalPoorNovelStruggleRecordsEnvironmentStylePossibilityCreaturesSolutionsConsciousSpeciesComplexesObviousDrawingImprovementExperimentsInventionAriseInteractionAccurateSelf Conscious Book:Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms
“No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. Broadly, we can afford to sink those sorts of knowledge which continue to be true regardless of changes in the environment, but we must maintain in an accessible place all those controls of behavior which must be modified for every instance. The economics of the system, in fact, pushes organisms toward sinking into the unconscious those generalities of relationship which remain permanently true and toward keeping within the conscious the pragmatic of particular instances.” MatterFactsLevelsDealsEnvironmentParticularBehaviorConsciousEconomicsBeing TrueInstanceUnconsciousOrganismsSinkingPragmaticGeneralities Author:Gregory Bateson
“Maturity involves being honest and true to oneself, making decisions based on a conscious internal process, assuming responsibility for one's decisions, having healthy relationships with others and developing one's own true gifts. It involves thinking about one's environment and deciding what one will and won't accept.” ThinkingProcessDecisionResponsibilityAcceptingEnvironmentHonestHealthyConsciousAssumingOneselfDevelopingBeing HonestMaturityInternalsMaking DecisionsRelationships With OthersHealthy RelationshipTrue To OneselfTrue GiftsAssuming Responsibility Author:Mary Pipher
“Imitation both unconscious and conscious is par excellence the educational method of the family. It is plain that a considerable part of the adaptation of living beings to their environment, i.e., of beings that are born plastic, is passed on from generation to generation through imitation. Were this not so, much if not all of the road traversed by one generation would have to be travelled by the next generation from the very beginning and without short-cuts. Consequently there would be little chance for the novel adaptation, the propitious individual variation, that constitutes progress.” IfsLittlesWould BeNextIndividualBornChanceNovelEnvironmentCuttingProgressGenerationsConsciousMethodExcellenceEducationalUnconsciousPlasticImitationAdaptationNext GenerationVariationShort Cuts Author:Elsie Clews Parsons
“[Having] appropriated to itself all conscious intelligence in the universe ...Man faces the existential crisis of being a solitary and mortal conscious ego thrown into an ultimately meaningless and unknowable universe ...and the psychological and biological crisis of living in a world that has come to be shaped in such a way that it precisely matches his world view-i.e., in a man-made environment that is increasingly mechanistic, atomized, soulless, and self-destructive.” MenWorldWayMadeSelfFacesUniverseViewsEnvironmentEgoConsciousCrisisPsychologicalMortalsDestructiveThrownMeaninglessSolitaryExistentialWorld ViewSelf DestructiveExistential CrisisSoulless Author:Richard Tarnas
“One of the scariest things to me was, I really feel like I'm a pretty even-keeled person with a good outlook and respect level, but in that environment, deep within the character, you see how easy it is to go to that place because you're one-upping each other and it's this heavy environment filled with young men trying to make an impression. It's dangerous. It's something that I became very conscious of afterwards.” MenFeelsTryingPersonsCharacterYoungEasyLevelsEnvironmentDangerousConsciousFilledHeavyImpressionYoung ManOutlookDeep Within Author:Nick Jonas
“I'm always conscious of the context, the history, the specific environment of anything that I design and what it is going to be operating within.” EnvironmentDesignConscious Author:Michael Bierut
“As you sow in your subconscious mind, so shall you reap in your body and environment. Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Whatever you habitually think sinks into the subconscious. The subconscious is the seat of the emotions and is a creative mind. Once subconscious accepts an idea, it begins to execute it. Whatever you feel is true, your subconscious will accept and bring forth into experience.” ThinkingFeelsMindBelieveIdeasBodyEmotionAcceptingCreativeEnvironmentConsciousAssumingYour BodyBeing TrueSeatsSubconsciousReapSubconscious MindConscious MindCreative Mind Author:Jane Roberts
“I, on the other hand, am a finished product. I absorb electrical energy directly and utilize it with an almost one hundred percent efficiency. I am composed of strong metal, am continuously conscious, and can stand extremes of environment easily. These are facts which, with the self-evident proposition that no being can create another being superior to itself, smashes your silly hypothesis to nothing.” SelfFactsHandsEnergyStrongEnvironmentProductsPercentConsciousHundredExtremesFinishedSillySuperiorsMetalsEfficiencyEvidentPropositionsHypothesisElectricalElectrical Energy Book:I, Robot Source: I, Robot
“The mind of one meditating on a single object becomes one-pointed. And one-pointedness of mind leads to abidance in the self. Real attainment is to be fully conscious, to be aware of surroundings and the people around, to move among them all, but not to merge consciousness in the environment. One should remain in inner independent awareness.” PeopleShouldMindRealSelfMovingConsciousnessEnvironmentAwarenessObjectsConsciousYogaIndependentSurroundingsAttainmentMeditating Author:Ramana Maharshi