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“Constant reading will pull you into a place - a mind-set, if you like the phrase - where you can write eagerly and without self-consciousness.”

Ifs Writing Mind Self Reading Consciousness Constant Phrases Self Consciousness Mind Set

Book:On Writing

Source: On Writing

“The main thing is to have a soul that loves the truth and harbours it where he finds it. And another thing: truth requires constant repetition, because error is being preached about us all the time, and not only by isolated individuals but by the masses. In the newspapers and encyclopedias, in schools and universities, everywhere error rides high and basks in the consciousness of having the majority on its side.”

Soul Truth School Individual Sides Education Consciousness Mass Majority Constant Errors University Newspapers Propaganda Isolated Repetition Encyclopedia Harbour

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“As the fish doesn't know water, people are ignorant of space. Consciousness is concerned only with changing and varying details; it ignores constants-especially constant backgrounds. Thus only very exceptional people are aware of what is basic to everything.”

People Knows Water Space Consciousness Awareness Concerned Constant Fishes Details Backgrounds Ignorant Exceptional

Author:Alan Watts

“The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants-these elasticities of demand and supply-depending, as they do, upon human consciousness, are liable to vary. The constitution of the atom, as it were, and not merely its position, changes under the influence of environment.”

“Even if the constants which economists wish to determine were less numerous, and the method of experiment more accessible, we should still be faced with the fact that the constants themselves are different at different times. The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants-these elasticities of demand and supply-depending, as they do, upon human consciousness, are liable to vary. The constitution of the atom, as it were, and not merely its position, changes under the influence of environment.”

“Whereas banking education anesthetizes and inhibits creative power, problem-posing education involves a constant unveiling of reality. The former attempts to maintain the submersion of consciousness; the latter strives for the emergence of consciousness and critical intervention in reality.”

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Book:Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

“I believe that all creativity and consciousness is born in the quality of play, as opposed to work, in the quickened intuitional spontaneity that I see as a constant through all my own existences, and in the experience of those I know.”

Knows Believe Play I Believe Born My Own Existence Consciousness Quality Creativity Constant Spontaneity

Book:Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul

Source: Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul

“The point of the overall meditative path is to have Wakefulness (or Consciousness as Such) transcend and include all state-realms, so it ceases to "black out" or "forget" various changes of state (such as dreaming and deep sleep), and instead recognizes a "constant Consciousness" or ever-present nondual Awareness, the union (and transcendence) of individual finite self and infinite Spirit.”

Source: The Fourth Turning: Imagining the Evolution of an Integral Buddhism

“We have consciousness and rational powers but unless you're willing to spend the time to gain control of yourself, gain control of your emotions, to think deeply about what you want in a year or two, or where you want your business to be, you're going to be swept away by every new event that occurs in the course of the day or the week and the small amount of time that you plan, that you address to conscious planning, is never enough to overcome the constant tide of emotions and new things happening.”