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“There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.”

Feels Children Littles Self Consciousness Findings Capable Losing Strikes Self Consciousness

Author:Carson McCullers

“If it turns out that physical death truly results in the absolute cessation of consciousness, then it would seem to me that in the grand truth of things, every human who has ever lived, who has not committed every minute of their lives toward an effort in finding a cure for mortality, has died as an utter and miserable failure.”

Ifs Life Humans Seems Turns Results Effort Consciousness Minutes Findings Died Absolutes Committed Cures Miserable Mortality

Author:Derek R. Audette

“The chief burden of the frustrated is the consciousness of a blemished, ineffectual self, and their chief desire is to slough off the unwanted self and begin a new life. They try to realize this desire either by finding a new identity or by blurring and camouflaging their individual distinctness; and both these ends are reached by imitation.”

Trying Ends Self Desire Individual Realizing Consciousness Identity Findings Burden Chiefs Frustrated Imitation New Life Unwanted Slough

Book:THE TRUE BELIEVER

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“We are concerned with similar states of consciousness and relationship to the world.. ..If previous abstractions paralleled the scientific and objective preoccupations of our times, ours are finding a pictoral equivalent for man's new knowledge and consciousness of his more complex inner self.”

Ifs Men World Self States Consciousness Findings Concerned Complexes Objectives Our Time Abstraction Inner Self Preoccupation States Of Consciousness New Knowledge

Book:Writings on Art

Source: Writings on Art

“An essay is something that tracks the evolution of a human mind. It tracks the evolution of a single consciousness in order to give us an experience - an experience of looking for something and then finding ourselves in a different place by the time we've finished our journey.”

Giving Mind Humans Different Order Consciousness Journey Evolution Findings Track Finished Human Mind Essays Different Place

Author:John D'Agata

“In Buddhism, we say reincarnation is the conscious taking of rebirth by a Bodhisattva, or by a high being, whereas rebirth, is what most people do. Rebirth is an involuntary process where they seek traction by finding a new body after their subtle mind loses the old one. There are two things commonly said about this. One- there is no evidence for it and two- if there is evidence, what's the mechanism which carries the consciousness from one life to another.”

People Ifs Mind Said Two Body Process Loses Consciousness Buddhism Findings Conscious Evidence Two Things Subtle Carrie Mechanism Reincarnation Rebirth Involuntary Bodhisattva Traction

Author:Robert Thurman

“I made the assumption, wrong of course, that conceptual analysis was a brief preliminary on the road to finding out about the nature of free will, consciousness, the self, the origin of values, and so forth.”

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Author:Patricia Churchland

“Sometimes my life has been Odyssean - landing on strange islands of consciousness and reality and meeting very curious monsters who turn out to be very great teachers. Sometimes my life has been a quest for a grail of knowledge and education. Like Parsifal, my life has been a quest to pierce the veil, stumbling along but eventually finding it.”

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Author:Jean Houston

“You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge. But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness.”

Ifs Trying States Consciousness Goodness Findings Fundamentals Be Good Allowing Within You States Of Consciousness New Earth

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they were good-natur'd and chearful; and with the consciousness of having done a good Days work they spent the Evenings jollily; but on the idle Days they were mutinous and quarrelsome, finding fault with their Pork, the Bread, and in continual ill-humour. (Autobiography, 1771)”

Men Done Consciousness Humour Findings Faults Ill Bread Evening Occasions Idle Autobiography Good Day Pork

Book:The Autobiography and Other Writings

Source: The Autobiography and Other Writings