“The unconscious in us warns us that in art we have to followoneparticular path. And if wefollow it, it isnotthe sign of anunconscious act.On the contrary, it showsthat there is in our ordinary consciousness a greater awareness of our unconsciousness.” IfsArtConsciousnessPathGreaterAwarenessOrdinaryContraryUnconsciousUnconsciousness Author:Piet Mondrian
“The difference between highly functioning people and people who live with ordinary levels of consciousness is that the self-actualizers never put their intention on what they don't want. They know that what you think about is what expands.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantSelfDifferencesLevelsConsciousnessOrdinaryIntention Author:Wayne Dyer
“In ordinary speech the words perception and sensation tend to be used interchangeably, but the psychologist distinguishes. Sensations are the items of consciousness--a color, a weight, a texture--that we tend to think of as simple and single. Perceptions are complex affairs that embrace sensation together with other, associated or revived contents of the mind, including emotions.” ThinkingMindTogetherUsedSimpleEmotionConsciousnessColorSpeechPerceptionOrdinaryWeightEmbraceComplexesIncludingAffairSensationsItemsTexturePsychologist Author:Jacques Barzun
“The progressive growth of the finite consciousness of man towards this Self, towards the universal , the eternal, the infinite, in a word his growth into spiritual consciousness by the development of his ordinary ignorant natural being into an illumined divine nature, this is for Indian thinking the significance of life and the aim of human existance.” ThinkingMenHumansSelfSpiritualGrowthNaturalConsciousnessDivineDevelopmentEternalOrdinaryUniversalInfiniteAimIgnorantIndianSignificanceProgressiveFiniteDivine NatureSignificance Of Life Author:Sri Aurobindo
“The fact that the patients were complex human beings with a rich life beyond the hospital never really sank into the consciousness of the residents. Because they had no rich lives beyond the hospital, they assumed no one else did, either. In the end, what they lacked was not medical knowledge but ordinary life experience.” HumansEndsFactsHuman BeingsConsciousnessRichOrdinaryComplexesPatientMedicalHospitalsLife ExperienceOrdinary LifeResidentsRich LifeMedical Knowledge Book:Travels Source: Travels
“Niagaras of beauty are flowing by untapped by ordinary consciousness. . . . Would that we could send robots who could film these psychedelic realities. . . . The presence of so much beauty is an argument to me that truth cannot be far away.” RealityFilmConsciousnessOrdinaryArgumentFar AwayRobotsPsychedelicNiagara Author:Terence McKenna
“Most people who've never experienced non-ordinary states of consciousness and only hear them described tend to try to describe them in terms of the logical, rational way of looking at things, the so-called scientific explanation, which often leaves a lot lacking and doesn't really fulfill understanding the experience at all.” PeopleWayTryingStatesUnderstandingTermConsciousnessOrdinaryRationalExplanationLogicalLackingStates Of Consciousness Author:Fred Alan Wolf
“I think a lot of people who were addicts are actually people who had that strong innate need to experience non-ordinary states of consciousness. But because our society has turned into this destructive culture of these horrible drugs that nullify you, they have that experience in a negative way. And then they lose that capacity forever, to have it in a positive way.” PeopleThinkingWayNeedsStatesCultureStrongLosesConsciousnessForeverDrugOrdinaryCapacityNegativeHorribleDestructiveOur SocietyAddictInnateStates Of Consciousness Author:Daniel Pinchbeck
“The Yoga Sutras offers a clear roadmap for the evolution of consciousness from ordinary states of awareness such as waking, dreaming, and sleeping - to higher states of consciousness.” StatesDreamSleepConsciousnessClearAwarenessEvolutionHigherOffersOrdinaryYogaWakingStates Of ConsciousnessYoga Sutra Author:Deepak Chopra
“Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.” SelfMatterHappinessJoyConsciousnessGratitudeLaughterOrdinaryEverydayBusyHappyCheerPursuit Of HappinessLivelyGreat HappinessInner HappinessSelf HappinessArt Of HappinessSecret To HappinessInner Peace And HappinessBeing BusyUnconcerned Author:Iris Murdoch