“The present mode of life on earth is madness, which is nontheless lethal for being legal. Rational existence is possible, but it calls for a world consciousness and a world design. People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.” PeopleThinkingWorldFirstsEarthExistenceConsciousnessDesignHabitCitizensMadnessRationalOur TimeSanityFulfillingRequirementsWorld Citizen Author:Norman Cousins
“(there is) no other means of escaping from one's consciousness than to deny it, to look upon it as an organic disease of the terrestrial intelligence - a disease which we must endeavor to cure by an action which must appear to us an action of violent and willful madness, but which, on the other side of our appearances, is probably an action of health. ("Of Immortality")” LooksMeanActionSidesConsciousnessDiseaseMadnessAppearanceDenyViolentCuresImmortalityLook UpEndeavorEscaping Author:Maurice Maeterlinck
“Things are both getting better and getting worse. The madness is accelerating but an acceleration of the new consciousness is also coming in. However, this latter development is less apparent when you listen to the media. The media still mostly reflects what is happening in the sphere of the old consciousness.” StillsConsciousnessMediaDevelopmentHappeningsMadnessGet BetterLatterSpheresAcceleration Author:Eckhart Tolle
“Of course, mysticism is very hard to isolate because, given the kind of consciousness that I was sort of instructed in as religious consciousness; that borders on mysticism so closely that it's hard to know whether you qualify or not, or whether mysticism is artificially isolated when it is treated as a separate thing from experience. Obviously, mysticism can be a form of madness, but then consciousness can be a form of madness.” KnowsKindHardFormCoursesGivenReligiousConsciousnessMadnessTreatedBordersMysticismIsolated Author:Marilynne Robinson
“Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding by no apparent rules.... We don't fear dreams, but we do fear madness, and death terrifies us.” DreamHappensLosesConsciousnessShadowLogicMadnessThings HappenAbiding Book:Shadow's Edge: Book 2 of the Night Angel Source: Shadow's Edge: Book 2 of the Night Angel