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“Plant consciousness, insect consciousness, fish consciousness, all are related by one permanent element, which we may call the religious element inherent in all life, even in a flea: the sense of wonder. That is our sixth sense, and it is the natural religious sense.”

May Natural Religious Consciousness Wonder Elements Plant Fishes Permanent Related Inherent Insects Fleas Sense Of Wonder Sixth Sense

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“Ritual use of psychedelic plants and substances has been a particularly effective technology for inducing holotropic states of consciousness.”

Has Beens States Use Consciousness Technology Plant Substance Ritual Psychedelic States Of Consciousness

Book:The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness

Source: The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness

“Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.”

Consciousness Loneliness Plant Seeds Rebellion Alienation

Author:B. W. Powe

“A set of ideas, a point of view, a frame of reference is in space only an intersection, the state of affairs at some given momentin the consciousness of one man or many men, but in time it has evolving form, virtually organic extension. In time ideas can be thought of as sprouting, growing, maturing, bringing forth seed and dying like plants.”

Source: The Ground We Stand on: The History of a Political Creed

“Inwardness is the characteristic feature of the vegetable rather than the animal approach to existence. The animals move, migrate and swarm, while plants hold fast. Plants live in a dimension characterised by solid state, the fixed and the enduring. If there is movement in the consciousness of plants then it must be the movement of spirit and attention in the domain of vegetal imagination. (...) This is the truth that the shamans have always known and practiced. Awareness of the green side of mind was called Veriditas by the twelfth century visionary Hildegard Von Bingen.”

“Our role as gardeners is to choose, plant and tend the best seeds within the garden of our consciousness. Learning to look deeply at our consciousness is our greatest gift and our greatest need, for there lie the seeds of suffering and of love, the very roots of our being, of who we are. Mindfulness...is the guide and the practice by which we learn how to use the seeds of suffering to nourish the seeds of love.”

Needs Looks Use Lying Suffering Consciousness Roles Practice Mindfulness Garden Roots Plant Seeds Guides Who We Are Gardener Greatest Gifts

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.”

Men Animal Consciousness Salvation Plant Kingdoms Compromise Diminish Insects Supremacy

Book:The Trouble with Being Born

Source: The Trouble with Being Born

“The most basic act of awareness or knowing that we can demonstrate in science. I postulate that that is the very basis of why we're conscious at all, that it is this relationship at the quantum level as matter evolves into more complex form, including plants and animals and living substance and ourselves, that this area of consciousness as an awareness becomes more and more complex.”

Matter Form Animal Levels Consciousness Knowing Awareness Conscious Areas Bases Plant Complexes Including Evolve Substance Quantum Plants And Animals

Author:Edgar Mitchell

“There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness.”

Years Important Earth Water Animal Half Consciousness Four Land Events Movement Plant Billions Dozen Advent Mammals Saga Plants And Animals Differentiation Important Events

Author:Elon Musk