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“Whenever you are in a perceptual field, it seems like it's ultimate. It's a self-wrapping consciousness. There doesn't seem or appear to be anything else other than the attention field that you're in.”

Self Seems Attention Consciousness Awareness Fields Ignorance Buddhism Ultimate Wrapping

Author:Frederick Lenz

“All the manifest forms of existence are but illusions. They are momentary displays of consciousness, flashes of lightening in the sky. They are there for a moment and then they are gone.”

Moments Form Existence Consciousness Gone Sky Ignorance Illusion Manifest Display Flash Momentary

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Debate doesn’t really change things. It gets you bogged in deeper. If you can address or reopen the subject with something new, something from a different angle, then there is some hope. ... People are suddenly gazing at something else and pausing for a moment. And for the duration of that gaze and pause, they are like reflectors of the totality of their own knowledge and/or ignorance. That’s something poetry can do for you, it can entrance you for a moment above the pool of your own consciousness and your own possibilities.”

“Wisdom is also a deeper consciousness of ignorance.”

Wisdom Consciousness Ignorance Deeper

Author:Austin O'Malley

“Physical processes alone will never completely explain the existence of the universe , life , and consciousness . Religious answers are just wishful thinking and wanton fabrication cast over a bottomless pit of ignorance . To explain their occult and mystical experiences , magicians are forced to develop models beyond the scope of materialistic or religious systems .”

Source: Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic

“Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.”

Thinking Men Made Action Causes Consciousness Opinion Ignorance Determined Mistaken

Book:Ethics

Source: Ethics

“We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere.”

Ifs Knows Humans Order Education Consciousness Knowledge Ignorance Lessons Supreme Interfere Human Consciousness

Book:Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious

Source: Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious

“Mysticism is a rational enterprise. Religion is not. The mystic has recognized something about the nature of consciousness prior to thought, and this recognition is susceptible to rational discussion. The mystic has reasons for what he believes, and these reasons are empirical. The roiling mystery of the world can be analyzed with concepts (this is science), or it can be experienced free of concepts (this is myticism). Religion is nothing more than bad concepts held in place of good ones for all time. It is the denial-at once full of hope and full of fear-of the vastitude of human ignorance.”

World Believe Humans Reason Spirituality Consciousness Mystery Ignorance Concepts Rational All Time Recognition Denial Discussion Enterprise Mysticism Mystic Susceptible

Author:Sam Harris

“The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance”

Reason Consciousness Ignorance Authority Moved Reason Why

Author:Richard Hooker

“The reason why the simpler sort are moved with authority, is the consciousness of their own ignorance; whereby it cometh to pass that having learned men in admiration, they rather fear to dislike them than know wherefore they should allow and follow their judgments. Contrariwise with them that are skilful authority is much more strong and forcible; because they only are able to discern how just cause there is why to some men's authority so much should be attributed.”

Knows Men Should Reason Able Strong Causes Consciousness Ignorance Authority Judgment Moved Reason Why Admiration Dislike

Author:Richard Hooker

“To rail and rant against tyranny is to manifest inferiority, for there is no tyranny but ignorance; to be conscious of one's powers is to lose consciousness of tyranny. Self government is not a remote aim. It is an intimate and inescapable fact. To govern oneself is a natural imperative, and all tyranny is the miscarriage of self government. The first requisite of freedom is to accept responsibility for the lack of it.”

“The fact that I'd never really seen myself on screen allowed for a blissful ignorance. It didn't feel like a movie. I didn't have that self-consciousness. It was a game that I was playing.”

Feels Self Facts Games Consciousness Ignorance Screens Self Consciousness Blissful Ignorance

Author:Ellar Coltrane

“I passionately feel that as long as we view ourselves as superior and other animals as exploitable our consciousness will remain stuck in a level of ignorance that will disallow a full realization of the truth underlying reality.”

Feels Long Reality Animal Levels Views Consciousness Ignorance Stuck Superiors Realization

Author:Sharon Gannon

“The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.”

Causes Pleasure Consciousness Ignorance Vanity Absent Falsity Inconstancy

Book:Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works