“I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of Richard Wagner. Here is no plaything with local colour, but the raising to its highest power all that is best in the national consciousness of his country.” ThinkingArtCountrySpiritDiesNationsConsciousnessHighestSingersLocalsColourWorks Of ArtWagner Author:Ralph Vaughan Williams
“Only the Earth can become the central axis around which world peace can be spun, for no religion is more compelling, no single nation larger, and no peoples older than the Earth itself. For that to happen, the collective human consciousness must expand enough so that our highest identification is as Earth-Humans.” WorldHumansEnoughHappensEarthNationsConsciousnessHighestCollectivesCompellingIdentificationSpunHuman ConsciousnessAxes Author:Ilchi Lee
“Quite often, the people who do leave their own nation and come to an unknown destination, like the United States, are inherently adventurous, so we've had that adventurous spirit that has embedded itself collectively in the American consciousness.” PeopleStatesSpiritNationsUnitedConsciousnessUnited StatesDestinationAdventurousEmbeddedAdventurous Spirit Author:Jimmy Carter
“The living expression of the nation is the collective consciousness in motion of the entire people.” PeopleNationsConsciousnessExpressionCollectivesCollective Consciousness Author:Frantz Fanon
“The world we live in is a co-creation, a manifestation of individual consciousness woven into a collective dream. How we are with each other as individuals, as groups, as nations and tribes, is what shapes that dream.” WorldDreamIndividualNationsConsciousnessGroupsCreationShapesManifestationCollectivesTribesWoven Author:Oriah Dreamer
“It's rare that we actively and consciously 'forget'; most of the time we have simply forgotten, with no consciousness of having forgotten. In individuals, the phenomenon is called 'denial'; in entire cultures and nations, it's usually called 'history.” CultureIndividualNationsForgetConsciousnessHistoryForgottenDenialPhenomenon Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“Good will, that curious product of consciousness, of leisure and energy to spare and share. That thing we put out against the forces of interest. That extra thing. Religions and nations and political parties have taken it and used it as coinage, have said you must only give it in exchange for value.” GivingSaidPoliticalUsedValuesEnergyForceNationsInterestPartyConsciousnessTakenShareProductsCuriousExtrasLeisureSparesPolitical PartiesGood Will Book:A Girl Must Live: Stories and Poems Source: A Girl Must Live: Stories and Poems
“Nations consist of individuals. It is for every individual to bring in a different quality - the quality of awakened consciousness - into their lives.” DifferentIndividualNationsConsciousnessQualityAwakened Author:Eckhart Tolle
“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.” DoeImportantActionPastPoliticalPassionPoliticsEnergyLeftNationsWealthConsciousnessHistoryDoubtHappenedShareIdentityDiversityHappeningsPrejudiceMarkNotesBoundariesLandscapeCollectivesConceptionMulticulturalismTenseSuccessionStanceVisceralCultural DiversityUnleashedDissolvingCollective Consciousness Author:Joyce Appleby
“To attain peace among the nations in any dynamic or enduring form requires not simply political negotiation but a new mode of consciousness. The magnitude of this change is in the order of religious conversion or of spiritual rebirth rather than of treaty processes or even of inter-cultural understanding. Simply to recognize the basic nature and dimension of the issues we face is already an advance.” FacesSpiritualFormPoliticalOrderNationsPeaceProcessUnderstandingReligiousConsciousnessIssuesEndureConversionDimensionsNegotiationRebirthTreatiesMagnitude Author:Thomas Berry
“For every minute that I spin, there is in me the consciousness that I am adding to the nation's wealth.” NationsWealthConsciousnessMinutes Book:Tagore and Gandhi Argue Source: Tagore and Gandhi Argue
“We are not isolated islands, we are connected links in a chain. Each kind word, each smiling face, each good action, benefits our neighbor, nation, world. Let us pray and meditate together and we shall reach the shore of peace, spreading the sweet holy fragrance of love and vibrations of unity and harmony. Tuning our minds to the supreme consciousness, let us open our hearts and chant the words, "May everyone everywhere be happy."” WorldMindHeartKindMayActionTogetherFacesNationsConsciousnessSweetPrayingHolyBenefitsHarmonyUnityConnectedNeighborSupremeChainsIslandsLinksShoreIsolatedFragranceVibrationsKind WordsTuningGood ActionsSmiling Faces Author:Mata Amritanandamayi
“Could he not find in his heart the generosity to acknowledge that there is a small nation that stood alone not for one year or two, but for several hundred years against aggression; that endured spoliations, famines, massacres in endless succession; that was clubbed many times into insensibility, but that each time on returning [to] consciousness took up the fight anew; a small nation that could never be got to accept defeat and has never surrendered her soul?” YearsHeartTwoSoulFightingNationsConsciousnessAcceptingHundredDefeatEndlessGenerosityAcknowledgeAggressionSuccessionFamineMassacresNever SurrenderIreland And The IrishInsensibilitySmall Nations Author:Eamon de Valera
“The healing of ourselves is the healing of the whole nation. Society is only a manifestation of our collective consciousness and our collective consciousness has a lot of fear, violence and hatred in it. ... It is possible to transform our heart...Not much time is needed...(the transformation can be born) the moment you vow to go in the direction of peace and service.” HeartWholeMomentsNationsBornHealingConsciousnessViolenceNeededHatredTransformationManifestationCollectivesVowCollective Consciousness Author:Nhat Hanh
“When I speak to students about the Civil Rights Movement, I say that it is impossible to stop a determined movement that is captivating the American consciousness. I think the candidacy of Sen. Obama represents the beginning of a new movement in American political history that began in the hearts and minds of the people of this nation. And I want to be on the side of the people, on the side of the spirit of history.” PeopleThinkingWantMindHeartPoliticalSpiritSpeakNationsSidesConsciousnessRightsImpossibleMovementStudentsDeterminedCivil RightsHeart And MindCivil Rights MovementCaptivatingPolitical HistoryCandidacy Author:John Lewis
“Earth Day gathered up those strands, and dozens more, and knitted them together in the public consciousness as "environmental" issues. The nation was pretty startled when 20 million people hit the streets. Congress, which had adjourned for the day to go back to its districts, was blown away.” PeopleEarthTogetherNationsConsciousnessMillionsIssuesStreetsEnvironmentalCongressDozenEarth DayStrandsBlown AwayEnvironmental Issues Author:Denis Hayes
“The worst thing we can do is to assume that the Electoral College [voting] resulting in the election of Donald Trump represents a mandate. It does not. He did not get the majority of the popular vote; that went to Hillary Clinton. That means those votes represent the consciousness of the nation, which is that abortion should be legal, that contraception and family planning are health issues and prevention, that a woman's right to reproductive privacy is the law of the land and should remain such.” ShouldMeanDoeLawNationsCan DoConsciousnessIssuesLandWorstCollegeTrumpVoteElectionMajorityAssumingClintonPlanningAbortionVotingPrivacyWorst ThingsMandatesPreventionContraceptionFamily PlanningHealth IssuesElectoral CollegePopular Vote Author:Willie Parker
“We've learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression. Freud rediscovered the underworld of consciousness that European rationalism had denied. But when you have a nation of people in therapy and counselling, "support" groups for every kind of human condition, where, in the clichés of that milieu, people "share" and "heal," the question, "What for?", "What now?" is no longer asked.” PeopleHumansKindNationsConsciousnessSupportGroupsShareConditionsHealTherapyFascismDeniedHuman ConditionRepressionPsychologistRationalismUnderworldMilieuSupport Groups Author:Adrienne Rich
“As long as the Children of Israel saw Pharaoh as a friend, they could not see Moses and Jehovah as their true friend. As they came into consciousness - by the wicked things that Pharaoh continued to do against them - that Pharaoh was indeed their enemy, then Moses and Jehovah's call to them to separate from Pharaoh to build a nation of their own became a reality.” ChildrenLongRealityNationsConsciousnessEnemySawsIsraelWickedTrue FriendMosesJehovahPharaohsWicked Things Author:Louis Farrakhan