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“It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment.”

Trying Mind Hard Moments Seems Courses Given Goal Consciousness Strange Goes On Accounts Worthy Tiny Truthful Representation Instantaneous

Author:George Saunders

“There's one uneasy borderline between what is external and what is internal, and this borderline is defined exactly by the sense organs and the skin and the introduction of external things within my own body. Consciousness is altered by physical events and physical objects, which impinge upon my sense organs, or which I introduce into my body. Now the name traditionally given to external objects or processes which change you internally is sacrament. Sacraments are the visible and tangible techniques for bringing you close to your own divinity.”

Body Names Given Process My Own Consciousness Events Objects Skins Technique Defined Visible Divinity Internals Organs Introducing Sacraments Introduction Tangible Altered Uneasy Borderline

Author:Timothy Leary

“To the degree to which they correspond to the given reality, thought and behavior express a false consciousness, responding to and contributing to the preservation of a false order of facts. And this false consciousness has become embodied in the prevailing technical apparatus which in turn reproduces it.”

Facts Reality Order Turns Given Consciousness Degrees Behavior Preservation Responding Contributing Prevailing

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“By banning psychedelic research we have not only given up the study of an interesting drug or group of substances, but also abandoned one of the most promising approaches to the understanding of the human mind and consciousness.”

Mind Humans Given Understanding Interesting Consciousness Study Groups Drug Approach Research Substance Human Mind Abandoned Given Up Psychedelic

Author:Stanislav Grof

“"Ask, and it is given" means that whether you are a full blossoming genius human, or whether you are the one-celled amoeba in the ocean, or a cell in one of your bodies, when it is concluded that something else is preferred (no matter how developed the consciousness is) every time a preference is noted, Nonphysical Energy rushes forth to answer it. It is the promise of our evolving beingness.”

Humans Mean Matter Body Asks Energy Given Answers Consciousness Genius Promise Ocean Your Body Cells Evolve Manifestation Preference Blossoming Amoeba

Author:Esther Hicks

“The distinction between right and wrong ("la distinction du bien et du mal", Fr.), is nothing else than their unyielding (or implacable) opposition; thus the moral consciousness is an innate and intimate revelation of the absolute, which goes beyond (or goes pass, or exceed) every empirical data (or given information). It is only on these principles that we will be able to establish ("pourront être édifiées", Fr.) the real basis of morality.”

Real Able Given Consciousness Moral Principles Information Morality Bases Absolutes Data Intimate Revelations Distinction Opposition Innate Exceed Unyielding

Author:African Spir

“The only thing that is unqualifiedly given is the total pervasive quality; and the objection to calling it "given" is that the word suggests something to which it is given, mind or thought or consciousness or whatever, as well possibly as something that gives.”

Giving Mind Wells Given Consciousness Quality Calling Objections

Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929-1930

Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929-1930

“A set of ideas, a point of view, a frame of reference is in space only an intersection, the state of affairs at some given momentin the consciousness of one man or many men, but in time it has evolving form, virtually organic extension. In time ideas can be thought of as sprouting, growing, maturing, bringing forth seed and dying like plants.”

Source: The Ground We Stand on: The History of a Political Creed

“One of the great arts in living is to learn the art of accurately appraising values. Everything that we think, that we earn, that we have given to us, that in any way touches our consciousness, has its own value. These values are apt to change with the mood, with time, or because of circumstances. We cannot safely tie to any material value. The values of all material possessions change continually, sometimes over night. Nothing of this nature has any permanent set value. The real values are those that stay by you, give you happiness and enrich you. They are the human values.”

“The capacity to recognize significant factors in a given situation is limited by the context that arises from the level of consciousness of the observer.”

Given Levels Consciousness Situation Capacity Significant Arise Factors Observers

Author:David Hawkins

“Of course, mysticism is very hard to isolate because, given the kind of consciousness that I was sort of instructed in as religious consciousness; that borders on mysticism so closely that it's hard to know whether you qualify or not, or whether mysticism is artificially isolated when it is treated as a separate thing from experience. Obviously, mysticism can be a form of madness, but then consciousness can be a form of madness.”

Knows Kind Hard Form Courses Given Religious Consciousness Madness Treated Borders Mysticism Isolated

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“Everyone is acting from his own level of consciousness. This is all we can ask of ourselves or anyone else. However hurtful someone is, he is doing the best he can, given the limits of his consciousness.”

Asks Given Levels Acting Consciousness Limits Hurtful

Book:Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: A Practical Alternative To Growing Old

Source: Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: A Practical Alternative To Growing Old

“Given how deeply the ways of war have penetrated our collective consciousness, it will take spiritual power to turn the issue around.”

Way War Spiritual Turns Given Consciousness Issues Collectives Spiritual Power Collective Consciousness

Author:Marianne Williamson

“One of the things I love so much about Valerie [Belin] is that she inhabits her body so completely. She has no self-consciousness about having stretch marks or having given birth. It's just so amazing that she has nothing to hide. Whereas all these other women see every little - supposed - imperfection - anything irregular is seen as an imperfection.”

Littles Self Body Given Consciousness Birth Mark Imperfection Self Consciousness Things I Love Stretch Marks

Author:Nan Goldin