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“Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time.”

Ifs Happens Able Courses Natural Consciousness Stage Adults Method Therapy Clients Comeback Suitable Infancy Regression Infancy Is

Author:Alice Miller

“Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.”

Ifs Firsts Language Grows Consciousness Havens Conscious

Author:Alan Moore

“There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.”

Ifs Men Way Life Said Wisdom Literature Memories Consciousness Wise Youth Regret Periods Life Regret

Book:Remembrance of Things Past

Source: Remembrance of Things Past

“As a longtime practitioner of yoga and a person who's been involved in physical fitness my whole life, I can tell you, yoga helps you achieve altered states of consciousness. It is not just stretching. The only way you can say that it's stretching is if you haven't done it, or that you haven't done it rigorously for a long period of time.”

“Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up?”

Ifs Want Has Beens Consciousness Car Racism Tragedy Wake Up Awakening Violent Horrible Tragic Crash Car Crash

Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.”

Ifs Writing Can Do Consciousness Worst Paper Streams Worst Things Pencils Edits Stream Of Consciousness

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“A status not freely chosen or entered into by an individual or a group is necessarily one of oppression and the oppressed are by their nature (i.e., oppressed) forever in ferment and agitation against their condition and what they understand to be their oppressors. If not by overt rebellion or revolution, then in the thousand and one ways they will devise with and without consciousness to alter their condition”

Ifs Way Individual Consciousness Forever Groups Conditions Revolution Thousand Chosen Oppression One Way Rebellion Oppressed Oppressors Agitation

Author:Lorraine Hansberry

“Why is failure the first thing I think of when I find myself in this sort of situation? Why can't I just enjoy myself? But if you have to ask the question, then you know you're lost: self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy. Already I'm wondering whether she's as aware of my erection as I am.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Firsts Self Asks Lost Enjoy Consciousness Situation Wonder Enemy Worst Self Consciousness Worst Enemy

Book:High Fidelity

Source: High Fidelity

“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not seek or conjecture either of them as if they were veiled obscurities or extravagances beyond the horizon of my vision; I see them before me and connect them immediately with the consciousness of my existence.”

Ifs Mind Two Law Heaven Existence Consciousness Moral Vision Two Things Awe Admiration Horizon Obscurity Extravagance Moral Law Conjecture Beyond The Horizon

Author:Immanuel Kant

“If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?”

Ifs Men Life Is Passion Dark Consciousness Despair Eternal Lays Bottom Emptiness Insatiable Unfathomable Inconsequential

Book:Fear and Trembling

Source: Fear and Trembling

“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

“If increased meta-knowledge is not counter-balanced by a corresponding growth in consciousness then the likelihood of psycho-spiritual dysfunction is great.”

Ifs Spiritual Growth Consciousness Balanced Psycho Likelihood Corresponding Dysfunction

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness”

Ifs Happiness Consciousness Seeking Antithesis New Earth

Book:Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth

Source: Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth

“The way of peace is a soul journey. . . . If you can live from the level of your soul, you are doing something very special. The important thing is how much consciousness you add to the whole of human existence, for that is how eternity expresses itself, like a lamp shining through the window of eternity.”

Ifs Way Humans Important Soul Whole Spiritual Levels Existence Consciousness Journey Special Window Eternity Important Things Add Shining Your Soul Lamps Human Existence Shining Through

Author:Deepak Chopra