“Enlightened teachers can do certain miracles, but they are not really miracles. They just know how to use energy on other levels of consciousness. A miracle is in the eye of the beholder, as is all of life.” KnowsUseEyeCertainEnergyCan DoLevelsConsciousnessKnow HowTeacherMiracleEnlightenedBeholderEye Of The Beholder Author:Frederick Lenz
“I think Nature, if she interests herself much about her children, must often feel that, like the miserable Frankenstein, with her experimenting among the elements of humanity, she has brought beings into existence who have no business here; who can do none of her work, and endure none of her favours; whose life is only suffering; and whose action is one long protest against the ill foresight which flung them into consciousness.” IfsThinkingFeelsChildrenLongActionLife IsSufferingHumanityInterestCan DoExistenceConsciousnessElementsEndureIllMiserableProtestFavourForesight Book:The Nemesis of Faith Source: The Nemesis of Faith
“Debate doesn’t really change things. It gets you bogged in deeper. If you can address or reopen the subject with something new, something from a different angle, then there is some hope. ... People are suddenly gazing at something else and pausing for a moment. And for the duration of that gaze and pause, they are like reflectors of the totality of their own knowledge and/or ignorance. That’s something poetry can do for you, it can entrance you for a moment above the pool of your own consciousness and your own possibilities.” PeopleIfsDifferentMomentsCan DoConsciousnessSubjectsPossibilityIgnoranceDeeperDebateAddressesSomething NewPoolPausesAngleEntrancesTotalityDurationGazingDifferent AnglesPausing Author:Seamus Heaney
“When I sit with my students and meditate with them, I channel the kundalini directly into them. I bring them to plane after plane of consciousness. What they would do in 100 years of meditation, I can do in an hour with them.” YearsI CanCan DoHoursConsciousnessMeditationStudentsBuddhismPlanesRama Author:Frederick Lenz
“I will work on myself, since the work on myself is going to be the highest thing I can do for it all, since I understand that as man up-levels his own consciousness, he sees more creative solutions to the problems that he's confronting.” MenI CanProblemCan DoWorkLevelsConsciousnessCreativityCreativeHighestSolutionsConfrontingCreative Solutions Author:Ram Dass
“Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the marks, the lights, etc. What's hard to do is to suspend your own feelings of self consciousness. The natural actors can do that; they can become part of a characterization and learn how to maintain it.” SelfHardFeelingsLightActorsCan DoNaturalConsciousnessFiguresMarkPhysicsEtcAfternoonSelf ConsciousnessCharacterization Author:Tom Hanks
“I think one of the things I always loved about the comics was this idea that this character, when he goes berserk, that white, blind rage makes him incredibly powerful, but it's also a great flaw. It's almost like he loses consciousness of what he's doing. During that he can do great damage.” ThinkingIdeasCharacterCan DoLosesWhitePowerfulConsciousnessBlindRageDamageFlawsBerserkBlind Rage Author:Hugh Jackman
“A quarter-horse jockey learns to think of a twenty-second race as if it were occurring across twenty minutes--in distinct parts, spaced in his consciousness. Each nuance of the ride comes to him as he builds his race. If you can do the opposite with deep time, living in it and thinking in it until the large numbers settle into place, you can sense how swiftly the initial earth packed itself together, how swiftly continents have assembled and come apart, how far and rapidly continents travel, how quickly mountains rise and how quickly they disintegrate and disappear.” IfsThinkingEarthTogetherCan DoNumbersRaceConsciousnessMinutesMountainOppositesHorseTwentiesDisappearSettlingQuartersContinentsInitialsLarge NumbersNuanceJockeys Author:John McPhee
“Chris Hemsworth is like Christopher Reeve in that he can do two things: he can wear a big red cape without a shred of self-consciousness. But he's also funny as hell, and he's so sweet. So with all the fish-out-of-water stuff, he's so funny. So he does almost two jobs in a way.” WayDoeTwoSelfBigsJobsStuffWaterCan DoConsciousnessHellSweetRedFishesTwo ThingsSelf ConsciousnessCapesTwo JobsFunny As Hell Author:Tom Hiddleston
“You have to overcome enormous self-consciousness, but nudity is about the strongest thing you can do in an acting performance. It's the most unsettling or the most comic or the most sexual.” SelfCan DoActingConsciousnessPerformancesOvercomingEnormousComicStrongestNuditySelf Consciousness Author:John Lithgow
“What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for the first time, every time.” FirstsArtCan DoConsciousnessFictionArt IsFirst TimeNarrativeConstructsNarrative Art Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“When my father began to work with President John. F.Kennedy, we moved to Washington, D.C. I was fortunate in my pre-adolescent years, as my social and political consciousness was developing, to live at the epicentre of that dynamic, idealistic, and inspiring moment in U.S. political history, with its ethos of personal and civic responsibility, summed up so succinctly in his exhortation: "Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country."” YearsCountryMomentsPoliticalAsksFatherSocialPresidentCan DoConsciousnessResponsibilityMovedDevelopingFortunateCivicsEthosIdealisticPolitical HistoryCivic ResponsibilityPresident John F Kennedy Author:Queen Noor of Jordan
“I believe that educating people to awaken into full consciousness is the most important thing we can do.” PeopleBelieveImportantI BelieveCan DoConsciousnessImportant Things Author:Elizabeth Lesser
“The worst thing we can do is to assume that the Electoral College [voting] resulting in the election of Donald Trump represents a mandate. It does not. He did not get the majority of the popular vote; that went to Hillary Clinton. That means those votes represent the consciousness of the nation, which is that abortion should be legal, that contraception and family planning are health issues and prevention, that a woman's right to reproductive privacy is the law of the land and should remain such.” ShouldMeanDoeLawNationsCan DoConsciousnessIssuesLandWorstCollegeTrumpVoteElectionMajorityAssumingClintonPlanningAbortionVotingPrivacyWorst ThingsMandatesPreventionContraceptionFamily PlanningHealth IssuesElectoral CollegePopular Vote Author:Willie Parker
“Life is like a piece of string with a lot of knots tied in it. The knots are the karma you're born with from all your past lives, and the object of human life is to try and undo all those knots. That's what chanting and meditation in God consciousness can do. Otherwise you simply tie another ten knots each time you try to undo one knot. That's how karma works.” TryingHumansPastLife IsCan DoBornConsciousnessPiecesMeditationObjectsTenKarmaHuman LifeTiesStringsTiedOur PastYour PastLife Is LikeKnotsPast LifeChanting Author:George Harrison
“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.” IfsWritingCan DoConsciousnessWorstPaperStreamsWorst ThingsPencilsEditsStream Of Consciousness Author:Stephen Sondheim