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“When you are not meditating, eliminate hate, doubt, fear, anxiety, negative thoughts and emotions that limit your consciousness, that bind you to a sense of self, of ego.”

Self Hate Emotion Consciousness Doubt Buddhism Limits Ego Anxiety Mindfulness Negative Sense Of Self Meditating Negative Thoughts Thoughts And Emotions

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.”

Humans Felt Effort Consciousness Limits Finals Obscure Pretension Human Knowledge

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“When we discover the secret of being inwardly at worship while outwardly at work, we find that the soul's silence brings us to God and God to us. Silence takes us beyond the limits of consciousness and into the heart and mind and will of God.”

Mind Heart Soul Secret Consciousness Silence Limits Worship Gods Will Heart And Mind

Book:Holy Silence

Source: Holy Silence

“Comics play a trite but lusty tune on the C natural keys of human nature. They rouse the most primitive, but also the most powerful, reverberations in the noisy cranial sound-box of consciousness, drowning out more subtle symphonies. Comics scorn finesse, thereby incurring the wrath of linguistic adepts. They defy the limits of accepted fact and convention, thus amortizing to apoplexy the ossified arteries of routine thought.”

“It isn't enough to have had an interesting or hilarious or tragic life. Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear on our lives. For what happened in the story to transcend the limits of the personal, it must be driven by the engine of what the story means.”

Mean Art Enough Stories Interesting Consciousness Our Lives Happened Bears Limits Art Is Driven Tragic Engines Anecdotes Tragic Life

Book:Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There

Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There

“The inspiration of a noble cause involving human interests wide and far, enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before, and which they were not capable of alone. The consciousness of belonging, vitally, to something beyond individuality; of being part of a personality that reaches we know not where, in space and time, greatens the heart to the limit of the souls ideal, and builds out the supreme character.”

“Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity, and he will be free. We see no limit to what should be offered to the child, for his will be an immense field of chosen activity.”

Should Children Consciousness Fields Activity Limits Dignity Chosen Immense

Author:Maria Montessori

“It is certainly not then-not in dreams- but when one is wide awake, at moments of robust joy and achievement, on the highest terrace of consciousness, that mortality has a chance to peer beyond its own limits, from the mast, from the past and its castle tower. And although nothing much can be seen through the mist, there is somehow the blissful feeling that one is looking in the right direction.”

Source: Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited

“I thought The Limits of Control could be interpreted in two ways: as the limits of one's self-control; and as the limits of allowing other people's control over one's - consciousness - which I kind of thought was a double meaning that was appropriate.”

People Way Kind Two Self Consciousness Limits Appropriate Allowing Self Control Two Ways Double Meaning

Author:Jim Jarmusch

“Enlightenment is any experience of expanding our consciousness beyond its present limits. We could also say that perfect enlightenment is realizing that we have no limits at all, and that the entire universe is alive.”

Universe Realizing Perfect Consciousness Alive Limits Enlightenment Expanding

Author:Thaddeus Golas

“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

“I'm interested in the limits of personality, in the possibility of change, and the saving power of art. Do powerful works of art raise our consciousness to such a degree that we refrain from sliding into moral hazard? Do we take note? Or are we doomed to repetition?”

Art Powerful Consciousness Moral Possibility Personality Limits Degrees Raises Notes Saving Works Of Art Doomed Repetition Refrain Hazards Possibility Of Change Moral Hazard

Author:Adam Ross