“When the artist activates his being, awakens to his surroundings, and sets himself the task of creating, connections are made out of conscious awareness that return coalesced as inspiration.” MadeInspirationArtistAwarenessReturnCreatingConsciousTasksConnectionsSurroundingsActivateConscious Awareness Book:Affirmations for Artists Source: Affirmations for Artists
“And when it is suggested that the inward feelings of power or inward monitions or losses of judgement are the germs out of which the divine machinery developed, I return that truth is just the reverse, that the presence of voices which had to be obeyed were the absolute prerequisite to the conscious stage of mind in which it is the self that is responsible and can debate within itself, can order and direct, and that the creation of such a self is the product of culture. In a sense, we have become our own gods.” MindSelfFeelingsOrderCultureVoiceLossStageCreationDivineProductsReturnTruth IsConsciousDirectAbsolutesResponsibleDebateJudgementReverseInwardMachineryGermsPrerequisites Author:Julian Jaynes
“The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return.” MenPassionHe ManReturnConsciousVanityHer Beauty Book:Adam Bede Source: Adam Bede
“When I moved to London in the 1990s, it had changed a great deal. Racism had become deeply uncool. But there has been a return of racism in the guise of "antiterrorism." People who look like myself are immediately suspect. I've become extremely self-conscious about going into crowded public places.” PeopleLooksHas BeensSelfDealsChangedReturnRacismConsciousMovedLondonSuspectsCrowdedSelf ConsciousGuiseUncool Author:Pankaj Mishra
“If you are in a state of intense presence you are free of thought, yet highly alert. If your conscious attention sinks below a certain level, thought rushes in, the mental noise returns, stillness is lost, you're back in time.” IfsStatesSpiritualCertainLostLevelsAttentionReturnConsciousIntenseNoiseStillnessBack In TimeLost You Author:Eckhart Tolle
“Bliss - a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious - lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention to the most tedious thing you can find (Tax Returns, Televised Golf) and, in waves, a boredom like you’ve never known will wash over you and just about kill you. Ride these out, and it’s like stepping from black and white into color. Like water after days in the desert. Instant bliss in every atom.” JoyLyingSidesBlackWaterWhitePayAttentionKnownAliveColorLike YouReturnGratitudeTaxesConsciousGolfWaveDesertBoredBlissInstantBoredomCrushOver YouAtomsBlack And WhiteTediousTax ReturnsJoy And Gratitude Author:David Foster Wallace
“We all woke up this morning and we had with it the amazing return of our conscious mind. We recovered minds with a complete sense of self and a complete sense of our own existence, yet we hardly ever pause to consider this wonder.” MindSelfSleepExistenceBrainConsciousnessWonderMorningReturnConsciousPausesSense Of SelfConscious Mind Author:Antonio Damasio
“He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the paragon of mankind, Virtue will never desert him. He returns to the state of a little child.” ChildrenLittlesStatesStrongVirtueMankindHumilityReturnConsciousWeakDesertLowlinessParagon Author:Laozi
“The soul which has come into intimate contact with God in the silence of the prayer chamber is never out of conscious touch with the Father; the heart is always going out to Him in loving communion, and the moment the mind is released from the task upon which it is engaged, it returns as naturally to God as the bird does to its nest.” MindHeartDoeSoulMomentsFatherPrayerSilenceReturnBirdConsciousTasksContactIntimateEngagedGoing OutCommunionChamberNests Book:Purpose in Prayer Source: Purpose in Prayer