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“You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.”

Pain Time Left Consciousness Sea Eternity Boundaries You Left Me

Book:The Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson

“Shaw does not merely decorate a proposition, but makes his way from point to point through new and difficult territory. This explains why Shaw must either be taken whole or left alone. He must be disassembled and put together again with nothing left out, under pain of incomprehension; for his politics, his art, and his religion - to say nothing of the shape of his sentences - are unique expressions of this enormously enlarged and yet concentrated consciousness.”

Way Doe Art Whole Pain Together Left Difficult Consciousness Taken Expression Shapes Unique Sentences Territory Propositions Left Alone Left Out Together Again Incomprehension

Author:Jacques Barzun

“The death of God left the angels in a strange position. They were overtaken suddenly by a fundamental question. One can attempt to imagine the moment. How did they look at the instant the question invaded them, flooding the angelic consciousness, taking hold with terrifying force? The question was, "What are angels?" New to questioning, unaccustomed to terror, unskilled in aloneness, the angels (we assume) fell into despair.”

Looks Moments Left Force Consciousness Imagine Position Strange Despair Angel Fundamentals Assuming Terror Instant Questioning Angelic Flooding

Book:Sixty stories

Source: Sixty stories

“Since ancient times, the left side has stood for the side of the unconscious or the unknown; the right side, by contrast, has represented the side of consciousness or wakefulness. Through the late twentieth century, the movement of the Left limited themselves to a materialist understanding of reality- exemplified by Marxism- demanding social justice and economic equality but not the restoration of intuition and the recognition of the hidden, qualitative dimensions of being suppressed by the mental-rational consciousness, narrowly focused on the quantifiable.”

“When self-consciousness stops, there is nothing -nothing left to stop, start, begin or end.”

Ends Self Left Consciousness Self Consciousness Samadhi

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Disease generally begins that equality which death completes; the distinctions which set one man so much above another are very little perceived in the gloom of a sick chamber, where it will be vain to expect entertainment from the gay, or instruction from the wise; where all human glory is obliterated, the wit is clouded, the reasoner perplexed, and the hero subdued; where the highest and brightest of mortal beings finds nothing left him but the consciousness of innocence.”

Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes..

“Did you hear the one about the woman who is attacked on the street by a gorilla, beaten senseless, raped repeatedly, and left to die? When she finally regains consciousness and tries to speak, her doctor leans over to hear her sigh contently and to feebly ask, 'Where is that marvelous ape?'”

Trying Dies Asks Left Speak Consciousness Streets Doctors Marvelous Beaten Sigh Apes Gorillas

Author:John McCain

“It is important to note that multiculturalism does not share the postmodernist stance. Its passions are political; its assumptionsempirical; its conception of identities visceral. For it, there is no doubting that history is something that happened and that those happenings have left their mark within our collective consciousness. History for multiculturalists is not a succession of dissolving texts, but a tense tangle of past actions that have reshaped the landscape, distributed the nation's wealth, established boundaries, engendered prejudices, and unleashed energies.”

“During zazen, brain and consciousness become pure. It's exactly like muddy water left to stand in a glass. Little by little, the sediment sinks to the bottom and the water becomes pure.”

Littles Left Water Brain Consciousness Pure Bottom Glasses Muddy

Author:Taisen Deshimaru

“A thousand years ago, scientists who wondered about consciousness and the nature of reality were burned at the stake. We still haven't recovered from that and it's left us with a culture that no longer investigates consciousness, except on the fringes.”

Years Stills Reality Culture Left Consciousness Havens Thousand Years Ago Scientist Stakes Burned Thousand Years Fringe

Author:David O. Russell

“And it (the left brain) has a massive role within this reality, yes. It is basically the point where infinite consciousness joins this reality. It’s that conduit. But if you get trapped in it, and imprisoned by it, you become the decoding mechanism itself and it becomes your awareness.”

Ifs Reality Left Brain Consciousness Roles Awareness Infinite Massive Mechanism Trapped Left Brain Infinite Consciousness

Author:David Icke