“Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resistance, strength, and a capacity for regeneration. When self-esteem is low, our resilience in the face of life's adversities is diminished. We crumble before vicissitudes that a healthier sense of self could vanquish. We tend to be more influenced by the desire to avoid pain than to experience joy. Negatives have more power over us than positives.” SelfPainFacesJoyDesireConsciousnessSocietyEffectsSelf EsteemLowsCapacityAdversityResilienceResistanceEsteemProvidingImmuneSense Of SelfImmune SystemRegenerationVicissitudesVanquishPositive Self Book:Power of Self Esteem Source: Power of Self Esteem
“As a bio-philosopher - as someone who draws upon the scriptures of nature, recognizing that we are the product of the process of evolution, and in a sense, we have become the process itself - through the emergence and evolution of our consciousness, our awareness, our capacity to imagine and to anticipate the future and to choose from amongst alternatives.” ProcessConsciousnessImagineAwarenessProductsEvolutionDrawsCapacityPhilosopherScriptureAlternativesRecognizingAnticipateEmergenceBios Author:Jonas Salk
“Man is the "ethical animal" ethical in potentiality even if, unfortunately, not in actuality. His capacity for ethical judgment like freedom, reason and the other unique characteristics of the human being is based upon his consciousness of himself.” IfsMenHumansReasonHuman BeingsAnimalConsciousnessJudgmentUniqueCapacityCharacteristicsEthicalActualityUnique Characteristics Book:Man's Search for Himself Source: Man's Search for Himself
“The capacity for loving strangers, whether one thinks of them as fictional beings or stars one will never meet, is a profound reflection on the new consciousness whereby every individual leads his or life while aware of all the billions of other people on Earth. Perhaps it is a fantasy or a fallacy that we can feel for so many strangers. Perhaps it is a mask for selfishness. But no matter the modern stress on special effects, there isn't a sight in movies as momentous as shots of a face as its mind is being changed. And only movies have allowed that.” PeopleThinkingFeelsMindMatterEarthFilmFacesIndividualStarsConsciousnessFantasyModernSpecialEffectsChangedReflectionShotsCapacityHollywoodSightStressProfoundStrangerBillionsSelfishnessMaskFallacySpecial Effects Author:Edward Jay Epstein
“What, then, is the basic difference between today's computer and an intelligent being? It is that the computer can be made to seebut not to perceive. What matters here is not that the computer is without consciousness but that thus far it is incapable of the spontaneous grasp of pattern--a capacity essential to perception and intelligence.” MadeMatterTodayDifferencesConsciousnessEssentialsComputerPerceptionCapacityIntelligentPatternsPerceiveWhat MattersIncapableSpontaneous Book:Visual Thinking Source: Visual Thinking
“The capacity to recognize significant factors in a given situation is limited by the context that arises from the level of consciousness of the observer.” GivenLevelsConsciousnessSituationCapacitySignificantAriseFactorsObservers Author:David Hawkins
“I do know middle age can bring greater depth, greater wisdom, greater capacity for love, greater capacity for relationship, greater consciousness and desire to serve and awareness of the fate of mankind - all these wonderful things, yes. And I know I'm getting there.” KnowsAgeDesireConsciousnessGreaterFateWonderfulMiddleMankindAwarenessCapacityDepthWonderful ThingsMiddle Ages Author:Marianne Williamson
“There is a lot of sixties-bashing going on these days that I don't agree with at all. I feel that extremely important ideals were brought to the forefront of the collective consciousness at that time. Granted, drug use was so pervasive that our generation did not as a group have the capacity to manifest our ideals to any great extent. But many of the people who were young in the sixties and who were most touched by that collective ethos are still touched.” PeopleFeelsStillsImportantUseYoungConsciousnessGenerationsGroupsDrugCapacityIdealsAgreeGrantedThese DaysTouchedCollectivesManifestSixtyOur GenerationEthosDrug UseCollective Consciousness Author:Marianne Williamson
“I think a lot of people who were addicts are actually people who had that strong innate need to experience non-ordinary states of consciousness. But because our society has turned into this destructive culture of these horrible drugs that nullify you, they have that experience in a negative way. And then they lose that capacity forever, to have it in a positive way.” PeopleThinkingWayNeedsStatesCultureStrongLosesConsciousnessForeverDrugOrdinaryCapacityNegativeHorribleDestructiveOur SocietyAddictInnateStates Of Consciousness Author:Daniel Pinchbeck
“My personal, metaphysical belief is Vedanta, which is that ultimately there is a singular consciousness. It's like a Hindu metaphysics, that basically we're all like characters in a play that consciousness is putting on to discover its own creative capacities.” PlayCharacterBeliefConsciousnessCreativeCapacityMetaphysicsMetaphysicalVedanta Author:Daniel Pinchbeck
“I do believe in this evolution of consciousness as the only thing which we can embark on, or in fact, willy-nilly, are embarked on; and along with that will go the spiritual discoveries and, I feel, the inexhaustible wonder that one feels, that opens more and more the more you know. It's simply that this increasing knowledge constantly enlarges your kingdom and the capacity for admiring and loving the universe.” KnowsFeelsBelieveFactsSpiritualUniverseConsciousnessWonderEvolutionDiscoveryCapacityKingdomsAdmiringIncreasing Knowledge Author:Conrad Aiken