“When I'm on the operating table, I'm happy for the surgeon to treat me as a machine, but the moment I return to consciousness I have other needs and aspirations that should be recognized. We're not here only to survive or extend our individual or species life but to do something seemingly more difficult, for which I've used words and phrases like 'love' and the 'Kingdom of God'.” NeedsShouldMomentsUsedIndividualDifficultConsciousnessReturnMachinesTreatsTablesSpeciesKingdomsPhrasesAspirationKingdom Of GodSurgeonsLike Love Author:George Pattison
“Once we do fill the void and experience the expansion in consciousness, we realize there is enough and has always been enough. We've always had exactly what we've needed in every moment.” EnoughMomentsRealizingConsciousnessNeededVoidExpansionFill The Void Author:Isha Judd
“The beauty in the losing is a loss finally of self-consciousness. There's a gorgeous moment that can happen in all kinds of places. It can happen with people, it can happen with nature, and it can happen with my eyes shut anywhere I am.” PeopleKindSelfMomentsHappensEyeLossConsciousnessLosingAll KindsGorgeousSelf Consciousness Author:Barbara Brown Taylor
“The idea that I really like is December 21st, 2012. Try to get a global moment of collective reflection as a way to bring about an uptick in human consciousness.” WayTryingHumansIdeasMomentsConsciousnessReflectionCollectivesDecemberHuman Consciousness Author:Daniel Pinchbeck
“As you meditate, over time your consciousness becomes awake within itself. The silent witness within saturates and illuminates the mind so that it does not look to the past or the future for fulfillment. It experiences peace and freedom within itself in every moment.” MindLooksDoeMomentsPastConsciousnessSilentWitnessFulfillmentAwake Author:Deepak Chopra
“Some other people think that awakened consciousness is really about fullness or presence, being completely present for every moment, but these experiences are only one of the dimensions of awakened consciousness. Understanding these different dimensions as facets of awakening can help with the confusion surrounding the different spiritual paths. They're not leading to different places, but rather reflect the luminous and liberated aspects of consciousness itself. These qualities are not far away; in fact, they are right here.” PeopleThinkingDifferentMomentsFactsHelpingSpiritualUnderstandingConsciousnessQualityPathAspectAwakeningConfusionDimensionsFar AwayFullnessAwakenedLiberatedDifferent PlaceLuminousSpiritual PathFacetsDifferent Dimensions Author:Jack Kornfield
“An ancient Vedic aphorism says, "Infinite flexibility is the secret to immortality." When we cultivate flexibility in or consciousness, we renew ourselves in every moment and reverse the aging process.” MomentsProcessSecretConsciousnessInfiniteAgingAncientImmortalityAphorismReverseFlexibilityAging Process Author:Deepak Chopra
“There were moments where people took the to streets and small rebellions, but ultimately it's a change in consciousness - so how do you capture that and bring the piece to light?” PeopleMomentsLightConsciousnessPiecesStreetsRebellionCapture Author:Marisa Tomei
“I think those moments in Patti's [Smith] bedroom really helped the film [Dream of Life] out, and those moments existed because of the trust between us. There isn't any real self-consciousness in the film because we all like each other.” ThinkingRealSelfMomentsDreamFilmConsciousnessBedroomSelf ConsciousnessReal Self Author:Steven Sebring
“You feel the communion of the collective consciousness in that moment when you're on stage doing something and the audience is absolutely with you. And the audience becomes a collective entity as well. They come in from separate places and socio-economic backgrounds, and places across the world and days that they've had, and then they come together and they become one collective thing, and experience something in a collective way.” WorldWayFeelsWellsMomentsTogetherConsciousnessAudienceEconomicStageBackgroundsCollectivesThat MomentEntityCommunionCollective Consciousness Author:Audra McDonald
“The factor that frequently determines whether people are going to make a particular choice is not the factor that counsels wisely or the one that leads to the greatest economic benefit. It's the one that's top of the consciousness in the moment.” PeopleMomentsChoicesConsciousnessEconomicDetermine Author:Robert Cialdini
“What new psychology suggests, it's the factor that is top of consciousness at the moment before you make that economic decision that will win the day.” MomentsWinningDecisionConsciousnessPsychologyEconomic Author:Robert Cialdini
“Storytelling is one of comics' esthetic hurdles at the moment, which was the novelist's problem 150 years ago: namely, to take comics from storytelling into that of "writing," the major distinction between the two to me being that the former gives one the facts, but the latter tries to recreate the sensation and complexities of life within the fluidity of consciousness and experience. As far as I'm concerned, that's really all I've been trying to do formally for the past decade or more with comics, and it's certainly time-consuming, since it has to be done with drawings, not words.” GivingWritingTryingDoneMomentsProblemPastConsciousnessConcernedStorytellingComplexityHurdle Author:Chris Ware
“At the present moment in our culture this yearning for meaning and consciousness, this yearning to give and serve something higher than ourselves, is breaking through the hard crust of our widespread cultural materialism and pseudo-scientific underestimation of what a human being is meant to be together with an equally tragic overestimation of what we human beings are capable of in our present everyday state of being. The intensity of the present confusion about the nature and existence of God is a symptom of this yearning within the whole of our modern culture.” GivingMomentsTogetherCultureExistenceConsciousnessModernCapableEverydayConfusionTragicMaterialismPresent MomentMeant To BeYearningExistence Of God Author:Jacob Needleman
“In aesthetic consciousness we enter that painless state, prized by Epicurus as the state of the gods; for a moment we are delivered from the miserable pressure of the will. We celebrate the Sabbath from the penal servitude of willing; the wheel of Ixion stands still.” MomentsConsciousnessCelebrateMiserableAestheticSabbathServitude Author:Julian Young
“What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.” PeopleFeelsStatesMomentsConsciousnessBehaviorNormalAspectOkayAddictionToxicAlteredObsessiveNormal LifeStates Of ConsciousnessBrief MomentsAltered StatesAltered States Of Consciousness Author:Moby
“I've come to think that the universe is a four-dimensional site in which nothing is changing and nothing is moving. The only thing that is moving along the time axis is our consciousness. The past is still there, the future has always been here. Every moment that has existed or will ever exist is all part of this giant hyper-moment of space-time.” ThinkingStillsMomentsPastMovingUniverseSpaceConsciousnessFourGiantsSiteHyperAxesSpace Time Author:Alan Moore
“I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.” GivingMomentsPurposeConsciousnessArguingRealizationFragile Author:Steven Pinker
“At every moment you choose yourself. But do you choose *your* self? Body and soul contain a thousand possibilities out of which you can build many I's. But in one of them is there a congruence of the elector and the elected. Only one--which you will never find until you have excluded all those superficial and fleeting possibilities of being and doing with which you toy, out of curiosity or wonder or greed, and which hinder you from casting anchor in the experience of the mystery of life, and the consciousness of the talent entrusted to you which is your *I*.” SoulSelfMomentsBodyConsciousnessWonderMysteryTalentPossibilityThousandCuriosityGreedYou ChooseToysSuperficialFleetingCastingAnchorsHinderExcludedMystery Of LifeCongruence Author:Dag Hammarskjold
“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.” KnowsLifeInspirationalNeedsGivingMomentsConsciousnessAwarenessEvolutionExperienceKarmaHelpfulDo You KnowLive In The MomentEnlighteningPower Of NowNew EarthConscious AwarenessBad Karma Author:Eckhart Tolle
“Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act.” ImportantMomentsLove IsConsciousnessCreativeImportant ThingsSupremeStates Of Consciousness Author:Ram Dass
“This was exactly what the girl had most dreaded all her life and had scrupulously avoided until now: lovemaking without emotion or love. She knew that she had crossed the forbidden boundary, but she proceeded across it without objections and as a full participant; only somewhere, far off in a corner of her consciousness, did she feel horror at the thought that she had never known such pleasure, never so much pleasure as at this moment--beyond that boundary.” FeelsMomentsGirlPleasureEmotionConsciousnessKnownHorrorCornersBoundariesForbiddenAvoidedParticipantsObjections Author:Milan Kundera