“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges and come up with elegant solutions. [...] It's not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep. [...] You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.” HardAbleOrderChallengesSimpleConsciousnessProductsHard WorkEssentialsSolutionsEssenceUltimateDepthSimplicityCome UpAbsenceComplexityElegantDiggingMinimalismClutterSophisticationReally DeepElegant Solutions Author:Steve Jobs
“Choice is born out of opposites, and the duality of the second chakra is forever challenging us to make choices in a world of opposing sides, of positive and negative energy patterns. Every choice we make contributes a subtle current of our energy to our universe, which is responsive to the influence of human consciousness.” WorldHumansChoicesUniverseEnergySidesBornChallengesConsciousnessForeverInfluenceNegativeOppositesPatternsCurrentsSubtleDualityOpposingChakraHuman ConsciousnessNegative Energy Book:Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing Source: Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing
“At first the, only subconsciously apprehended, approaching confluences of complex events make themselves known intuitively within the intellectual weather. Then comes a gradually awakening consciousness of the presence of new families of differentiating-out challenging concepts of every day prominence. It is with these randomly patterning families of separate concepts that evolution is about to deal integratively. As a now specific unitary problem it may be disposed of effectively when and if that unified problem becomes "adequately stated" and thereby comprehensibly solvable.” IfsFirstsMayProblemChallengesDealsConsciousnessKnownEventsEvolutionIntellectualConceptsComplexesAwakeningWeatherUnifiedProminenceConfluenceNew Family Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“The catastrophe story, whoever may tell it, represents a constructive and positive act by the imagination rather than a negative one, an attempt to confront the terrifying void of a patently meaningless universe by challenging it at its own game. [. . .] Each one of these fantasies represents an arraignment of the finite, an attempt to dismantle the formal structure of time and space which the universe wraps around us at the moment we first achieve consciousness.” FirstsMayMomentsStoriesUniverseGamesImaginationChallengesSpaceConsciousnessFantasyAchieveNegativeStructureMeaninglessVoidFormalCatastropheApocalypseFiniteTime And SpaceWrapsConstructive Author:J. G. Ballard
“The challenge of elucidating living processes -- including consciousness and all its baggage which we bundle together as 'the human spirit' -- is only one example of a challenge where hard work is paying off and science does not need to accept the false explanations peddled by religions.” NeedsHumansDoeHardTogetherSpiritProcessChallengesConsciousnessAcceptingExampleHard WorkIncludingExplanationHuman SpiritBaggageBundles Author:Peter Atkins
“The challenge for me is still to do something that hasn't been beaten into the movie going consciousness. Otherwise what am I in it for?” StillsActorsChallengesConsciousnessMovieBeaten Author:Johnny Depp
“Flow is the process of achieving happiness through control over one's inner life. The optimal state of inner experience is order in consciousness. This happens when we focus our attention (psychic energy) on realistic goals and when our skills match the challenges we face.” StatesHappensFacesOrderEnergyProcessGoalChallengesAttentionConsciousnessFocusAchieveSkillsFlowRealisticPsychicsInner LifeOptimalChallenges We FaceRealistic GoalsAchieving Happiness Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
“Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility . . . . Artists have had to become self-conscious aestheticians: continually challenging their means, their materials and methods.” KindMeanArtSelfTodayArtistChallengesConsciousnessMaterialsConsciousMethodInstrumentsSensibilitySelf ConsciousModifying Author:Susan Sontag
“And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are.” PeopleThinkingWayGodMovingSpiritualityOpportunityChallengesLevelsConsciousnessSeeingHigherExperienceWay Of ThinkingHigher Level Author:Neale Donald Walsch