“I got into animals by drawing hair follicles. I liked drawing hair, and from that I got into feathers and fur, then into images of animals. The patterning is the same, but the proportions of the body change from one animal to the next. A lot of it is just geometry and consciousness.” BodyNextAnimalConsciousnessHairDrawingProportionFeathersGeometryFurBody Change Author:Kiki Smith
“Being present. The mind is like a butterfly that flits from one flower to the next. Seldom do we find ourselves nestled in the excuisite and eternal ocean of here and now. When you are, you can connect with your true self that is beyond the chattering of your mind. When you take the effort to focus your drifting consciousness to become fully awake to the present moment, you will discover the glorious light that dwells within you.” MindSelfMomentsLightNextEffortConsciousnessFocusFlowerOceanEternalAwakeGloriousPresent MomentButterflyWithin YouTrue SelfHere And NowDriftingLike A Butterfly Author:Denise Linn
“The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to behave himself, so as not to appear to be a fool or a coxcomb.” KnowsMenMightNextConsciousnessKnow HowFoolWitBest ThingsBehave Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“This is the value for me of writing books that children read. Children aren't interested in your appalling self-consciousness. They want to know what happens next. They force you to tell a story.” KnowsWantWritingChildrenBookSelfStoriesHappensValuesNextForceConsciousnessWriting A BookSelf Consciousness Author:Philip Pullman
“I really think next to the consciousness of doing a good action, that of doing a civil one is the most pleasing; and the epithet which I should covet the most next to that of Aristides, would be that of well-bred.” ThinkingShouldWellsWould BeActionNextConsciousnessMannersGood ActionsEpithet Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“What we do, as a conscious species, is set markers for ourselves. Once we reach one marker, we advance to the next.” NextConsciousnessConsciousSpeciesMarkers Author:Thomas Ligotti
“I think with the work we do with these drugs we are the earliest pioneers in what over the next 100 years will lead to an understanding of consciousness almost as a thing apart from the monkey body and brain.” ThinkingYearsBodyNextUnderstandingBrainConsciousnessDrugMonkeysPioneers Author:Terence McKenna
“The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time.” SeemsNextConsciousnessCamerasInstrumentsOur Time Book:Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families Source: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families
“I had been a kind of natural mystic my whole life, growing up there in Tennessee next to the river. Somehow, that was important for my consciousness. I still don't study [mysticism]. I just wait for experiences.” KindStillsImportantWholeNextWaitingNaturalConsciousnessGrowing UpStudyGrowingRiversWhole LifeMysticismMysticTennessee Author:Coleman Barks
“The spirits talk of many levels. It's not a physical level where you go up the steps to get to the next one. It's consciousness and how evolved spiritually you are.” SpiritNextLevelsConsciousnessStepsThe Next One Author:James Van Praagh
“For example, the insurance industries and the big banks are absolutely euphoric now - on the business pages they don't even conceal it - because they've succeeded in coming out of the crisis even stronger than they were before, and in a better position to lay the basis for the next crisis. But they don't care, because they'll get bailed out again. That's class consciousness with a vengeance.” BigsCareNextConsciousnessClassExamplePositionIndustryPagesBasesStrongerCrisisLaysDon't CareComing OutVengeanceEuphoricClass Consciousness Author:Noam Chomsky
“God chooses community sometimes to bear an unfair burden to force us to rise to the next level of consciousness and understanding.” SometimesNextForceUnderstandingCommunityLevelsConsciousnessBearsBurdenUnfairNext Level Author:Van Jones
“I don't think that the universal themes of love, compassion, and forgiveness (are present). (You're) searching constantly for the next step, the next level and consciousness in your spirituality, who you are as a human being and what you contribute to society or what God means to you is always a course everyone goes on.” ThinkingHumansMeanSpiritualityCoursesNextHuman BeingsLevelsConsciousnessCompassionStepsGoes OnUniversalWho You AreThemeNext StepsNext LevelUniversal Themes Author:Tim McGraw