“Disease generally begins that equality which death completes; the distinctions which set one man so much above another are very little perceived in the gloom of a sick chamber, where it will be vain to expect entertainment from the gay, or instruction from the wise; where all human glory is obliterated, the wit is clouded, the reasoner perplexed, and the hero subdued; where the highest and brightest of mortal beings finds nothing left him but the consciousness of innocence.” MenHumansLittlesLeftConsciousnessWiseHeroGayDiseaseHighestGlorySickEntertainmentWitMortalsInnocenceVainDistinctionOne ManInstructionChamberGloomCloudedPerplexed Book:The Rambler: In Four Volumes.. Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes..
“(there is) no other means of escaping from one's consciousness than to deny it, to look upon it as an organic disease of the terrestrial intelligence - a disease which we must endeavor to cure by an action which must appear to us an action of violent and willful madness, but which, on the other side of our appearances, is probably an action of health. ("Of Immortality")” LooksMeanActionSidesConsciousnessDiseaseMadnessAppearanceDenyViolentCuresImmortalityLook UpEndeavorEscaping Author:Maurice Maeterlinck
“If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious falls an easy victim, the personal consciousness of every individual should be cultivated to the highest degree possible.” IfsShouldFallIndividualSocialEasyConsciousnessProgressSubjectsDiseaseDegreesHighestBasesVictimSubconsciousEpidemicsHumanistic Author:Boris Sidis
“Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness” MindArtCommunityConsciousnessWorstDiseaseArt IsMedicineCorruption Author:Robin G. Collingwood
“But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease.” FactsDealsConsciousnessDisease Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky
“In fact, everything that emanates from source emanates from a source of well-being. When we take on this ego consciousness, when we take on hate rather than love in our hearts, we create all of this divisiveness, and we create all of the problems, the struggles, the difficulties, the diseases, the poverty.” WellsHeartFactsProblemHateConsciousnessPovertyStruggleSourceEgoDiseaseDifficultyWell BeingEmanateDivisiveness Author:Wayne Dyer
“The thing is that the ego cannot cure itself of its own malady of egoism; it's already infected by the disease itself. And that is why it is necessary to go to a guru who knows God and by absorbing his consciousness into yourself, you discover that you aren't this ego. You cross that abyss and you find that you are infinite.” KnowsConsciousnessEgoDiseaseCrossesInfiniteCuresAbyssGuruKnowing GodEgoismAbsorbingMalady Author:Goswami Kriyananda
“Since we're coming into a rebirth, and there's a consciousness of health, because the disease that is death, we are able to overcome that.” AbleConsciousnessDiseaseOvercomingRebirth Author:Jimmy Cliff