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“...The Western 'God-image' is a representation of the collective unconscious, an archetype of the psyche that undergoes a continual process of transformation...The God image evolves through its relationship to humanity. Whoever knows God has an effect on 'him'. For the individual, knowing God, is the process of recognizing and assimilating the pressured and paradoxical contents of the self, which come to consciousness- seek incarnation- within the ego.”

“All of us are already civilian soldiers, without knowing it...The great stroke of luck for the military class's terrorism is that no one recognizes it. People don't recognize the militarized part of their identity, of their consciousness.”

People Consciousness Class Knowing Military Identity Luck Soldier Terrorism Strokes Civilians

Book:Pure war

Source: Pure war

“Samadhi is perfect absorption to the point where there is no sense of being absorbed, not the consciousness of knowing that you are having an experience.”

Perfect Consciousness Knowing Samadhi Absorption

Author:Frederick Lenz

“According to the true Indian view, our consciousness of the world, merely as the sum total of things that exist, and as governed by laws, is imperfect. But it is perfect when our consciousness realizes all things as spiritually one with it, and therefore capable of giving us joy. For us the highest purpose of this world is not merely living in it, knowing it and making use of it, but realizing our own selves in it through expansion of sympathy; not alienating ourselves from it and dominating it, but comprehending and uniting it with ourselves in perfect union.”

“The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes. The hero in each of us is required to answer the call of individuation. We must turn away from the cacaphony of the outerworld to hear the inner voice. When we can dare to live its promptings, then we achieve personhood. We may become strangers to those who thought they knew us, but at least we are no longer strangers to ourselves.”

Source: The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife

“Knowing that a great bit of the technology is active and actually happening, and that the technology that we're talking about, in terms of uploading a human consciousness, is probably not all that far away, to be honest. Indeed, it will happen. It's pretty close.”

Humans Happens Bits Term Consciousness Talking Technology Knowing Honest Happenings Active Being Honest Far Away Human Consciousness

Author:Johnny Depp

“The most basic act of awareness or knowing that we can demonstrate in science. I postulate that that is the very basis of why we're conscious at all, that it is this relationship at the quantum level as matter evolves into more complex form, including plants and animals and living substance and ourselves, that this area of consciousness as an awareness becomes more and more complex.”

Matter Form Animal Levels Consciousness Knowing Awareness Conscious Areas Bases Plant Complexes Including Evolve Substance Quantum Plants And Animals

Author:Edgar Mitchell

“To me, activism requires you to try very hard to open your eyes to the world as it is. See as much as you can, knowing that whatever you see is going to be partial. That you possess a partial consciousness in an infinite and expanding universe.”

World Trying Hard Eye Universe Consciousness Knowing Infinite Activism Expanding Expanding Universe

Author:Bill Ayers

“I can't be naturalistic enough to make it sound real. So instead, I just wander around aimlessly knowing that I'll be funny enough with stream of consciousness until I get to the actual explosively funny part.”

I Can Real Enough Sound Consciousness Knowing Wander Streams Stream Of Consciousness

Author:Norm MacDonald

“There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.”

Believe Motivational Motivation Consciousness Knowing Stimulus Believe In Us

Author:Orison Swett Marden

“Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.”

Mean Self Today Consciousness Knowing Ego Reflection Realization Embarrassment Self Consciousness Impotence Fetish

Book:Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

“Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.”

“The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.”

Men Made Soul Young Wish Difficult Consciousness Knowing Tasks Gentleman Difficult Tasks Young Gentlemen

Book:Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“...I sense that stepping into the light is also a powerful metaphor for consciousness, for the birth of the knowing mind, for the simple and yet momentous coming of the sense of self into the world of the mental.”

World Mind Self Light Simple Powerful Consciousness Knowing Birth Metaphor Sense Of Self

Author:Antonio Damasio