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“There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them. No one should want to. Perfect joy, or perfect pain, with no contrasting element to define them, would mean a monotony of consciousness, would mean death”

Way Want Should May Mean Pain Joy Perfect Consciousness Elements Ugliness Life Happiness Monotony Joy And Pain

Author:Jean Toomer

“Plant consciousness, insect consciousness, fish consciousness, all are related by one permanent element, which we may call the religious element inherent in all life, even in a flea: the sense of wonder. That is our sixth sense, and it is the natural religious sense.”

May Natural Religious Consciousness Wonder Elements Plant Fishes Permanent Related Inherent Insects Fleas Sense Of Wonder Sixth Sense

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Children Long Action Life Is Suffering Humanity Interest Can Do Existence Consciousness Elements Endure Ill Miserable Protest Favour Foresight

Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“We humans are herd animals of the monkey tribe, not natural individuals as lions are. Our individuality is partial and restless; the stream of consciousness that we call 'I' is made of shifting elements that flow from our group and back to our group again. Always we seek to be ourselves and the herd together, not One against the herd.”

Humans Made Together Individual Natural Animal Consciousness Groups Elements Flow Individuality Streams Lions Tribes Monkeys Restless Shifting Herds Stream Of Consciousness

Author:Anna Louise Strong

“But I would assert that despite the wide variety of yoga options and individual preferences, there is one universal element: the union of consciousness and movement, breath and awareness.”

Individual Consciousness Awareness Movement Elements Yoga Universal Breaths Unions Wide Despite Variety Preference

Author:Carre Otis

“Proportion is all; and, in sports at school, I lost it by surrendering to the awful significance of my self-consciousness. Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.”

People Looks Important Self School Belief Lost Sports Consciousness Strange Elements Awful Proportion Significance Narcissism Shyness Self Consciousness

Book:Broken Vessels: Essays

Source: Broken Vessels: Essays

“The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.”

Love Life Inspirational Giving Race Consciousness Greater Exercise Activity Essentials Elements And Love Affection Appropriate Blessedness Power And Love

Book:Receiving and Giving: A Baccalaureate Sermon, Delivered at Williamstown , Ms. August 15, 1852. Published by Request of the Class

Source: Receiving and Giving: A Baccalaureate Sermon, Delivered at Williamstown , Ms. August 15, 1852. Published by Request of the Class

“I guess I think that sex and desire and humiliation are central to my experience of consciousness - to my experience of humanness - and I wanted to explore the ways that they circle around and approach and fail to add up to love, or the ways that those three terms - sex, desire, love - can in some lights seem synonymous and in others like elements entirely alien to one another.”

Thinking Way Light Seems Wanted Desire Three Sex Term Consciousness Failing Elements Approach Add Circles Aliens Humiliation Humanness Desire Love

Author:Garth Greenwell

“Fire and Water are archetypes, the split sides of consciousness; one aware, the other, not. The two parts of us that desire synthesis, yet resist it: the self and the shadow. But they are also the element of chance, of the random roll of dice.”

Two Self Desire Sides Water Chance Consciousness Fire Elements Shadow Splits Dice Archetype Synthesis

Author:Chris Abani

“I think that the global consciousness concerning all those elements that produce tension, fractions of societies, is changing in the sense that we all tend to understand a little more the needs for harmonizing the process and integrating races and cultures and producing multiculturalism and different melting-pot situations. That affects global things, tolerating the Arab, the African, the Eastern civilizations, getting rid of this hegemonic dominance by the West. That's all comprehensive now in terms both of understanding and approaching the whole planet.”