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“The Infinite alone exists and is Real; the finite is passing and false. The Original Whim in the Beyond caused the apparent descent of the Infinite into the realm of the seeming finite. This is the Divine Mystery and Divine Game in which Infinite Consciousness for ever plays on all levels of finite consciousness.”

Real Play Games Levels Consciousness Mystery Divine Infinite Originals Passing Passings Realms Finite Seeming Whim Descent Infinite Consciousness

Author:Meher Baba

“My understanding of God is an experience. God is. That's all I know. In the Biblical tradition, it would be expressed as, "Be still and know that I am God." God is the "I am" energy. Something huge is at play here - cosmic creativity, consciousness, God, whatever you want to call it. I do believe that it's a guided ride. We're on a guided tour of the universe.”

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Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“Comics play a trite but lusty tune on the C natural keys of human nature. They rouse the most primitive, but also the most powerful, reverberations in the noisy cranial sound-box of consciousness, drowning out more subtle symphonies. Comics scorn finesse, thereby incurring the wrath of linguistic adepts. They defy the limits of accepted fact and convention, thus amortizing to apoplexy the ossified arteries of routine thought.”

“To take charge of destiny means to play a very convoluted chess game on multiple levels of consciousness and existence.”

Mean Play Games Levels Existence Consciousness Destiny Chess Mysticism Multiple Chess Game Convoluted

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Read books that expand you, that are bright. See films, plays, art forms that elevate your consciousness, that bring you into a sense of how beautiful this world is, how beautiful other worlds are, how beautiful nirvana, the transcendental is.”

World Art Book Play Beautiful Film Form Consciousness This World Mysticism Other Worlds Transcendental Gaining Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Blindsight is excellent. It's state-of-the-art science fiction: smart, dark and it grabs you by the throat from page one. Like a C J Cherryh book it makes you feel the danger of the hostile environment (or lack of one) out there. And it plays with some fascinating possibilities in human development, and some disconcerting ideas about human consciousness. What else can I say? Thanks for giving me the privilege of reading this.”

“It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation.”

Play Moments Realizing Prayer Consciousness Identity Praying Supreme Liberation Liberated Expanse

Book:Art Psalms

Source: Art Psalms

“All is a play in consciousness. All divisions are illusory. You can know the false only. The true you must yourself be.”

Knows Play Consciousness Division Illusory True You

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Technological consciousness takes itself dead seriously; it has no sense of humor. The fool can play no role in it, for there is no other realm that is can see beyond itself to which the fool can point. Consciousness in the throes of desire cannot tolerate laughter any more than criticism of laughter can be tolerated in a moment of sexual lust.”

Play Moments Desire Consciousness Roles Fool Laughter Criticism Lust Realms Sense Of Humor Tolerate Technological

Book:Moral Philosophy and the Modern World

Source: Moral Philosophy and the Modern World

“When the epistemologists' concept of consciousness first became popular, it seems to have been in part a transformed application of the Protestant notion of conscience."Consciousness" was imported to play in the mental world the role played by light in the mechanical world.”

World Firsts Has Beens Play Light Seems Consciousness Roles Conscience Concepts Notion Application Transformed Protestants

Author:Gilbert Ryle

“It's harder to play a quiet character because everything happens in their stream of consciousness. They're thinking and feeling the world, but they're saying very little, so then you have to communicate it through your behavior.”

Thinking World Littles Play Character Feelings Happens Consciousness Quiet Behavior Harder Communicate Things Happen Streams Stream Of Consciousness

Author:Viola Davis

“I believe that all creativity and consciousness is born in the quality of play, as opposed to work, in the quickened intuitional spontaneity that I see as a constant through all my own existences, and in the experience of those I know.”

Knows Believe Play I Believe Born My Own Existence Consciousness Quality Creativity Constant Spontaneity

Book:Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul

Source: Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul

“The excitement of theatre is palpable but the frustrations, and the complete absence of a definitive evening - the play as text means practically nothing in a way - , there's no particular performance that is definitive in the way a novel is a solid object you hold in your hands and here it is. You can't say that about a play. If the novel gives us a sense of throbbing consciousness, theater is pure soul, beautiful and elusive.”

Ifs Way Giving Mean Soul Play Hands Beautiful Consciousness Novel Objects Particular Pure Performances Theater Theatre Absence Evening Excitement Frustration Elusive Pure Soul

Author:Don DeLillo

“When it comes to songs and music, yeah, people love to sing and dance and play music and tunes, and that stream of consciousness that exists in music, nobody knows where that comes from.”

People Knows Play Song Consciousness Yeah Streams Tunes Nobody Knows Stream Of Consciousness

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“I was never supposed to play in college, let alone the NBA, so I always feel like I have something to prove. No one ever expected me to be here, so that feeling of being an underdog is ingrained in me. It's a natural part of my consciousness.”

Feels Play Feelings Natural Consciousness College Prove Expected Nba Underdog

Author:Steve Nash

“In exactly the same way, ... scatter your body, your feeling, your perception, your predispositions, your discriminative consciousness, break them up, knock them down, cease to play with them, apply yourself to the destruction of craving for them. Verily, ... the extinction of craving is Nirvana.”

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Author:Gautama Buddha

“Those who have advanced rise to the mind which is in the head, - they have the play of their mental movements in the head itself. But all these are inside the body; man is, as it were, shut up in a box, his entire consciousness is confined within the organism. This imprisonment has to be undone.”

Men Mind Play Body Consciousness Movement Boxes Shut Up Organisms Confined Undone Imprisonment

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is not conscious of it and of that he has to be conscious.”

Men Mind Play Consciousness Higher Conscious

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“The consciousness of the supreme Purusha remains above, but in the mind there may be a Purusha consciousness which they call the cosmic consciousness - it is wide, all-pervading, one. Outside this goes on the play of Prakriti.”

Mind May Play Consciousness Goes On Remains Wide Supreme Cosmic Cosmic Consciousness

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“I'm kind of shocked any time somebody hires me and even more shocked any time somebody hires me to play a character like Lex Luthor, which I only knew from the public consciousness of him being a bald, brooding villain who is older than me.”

Kind Play Character Consciousness Villain Shocked Brooding

Author:Jesse Eisenberg

“My personal, metaphysical belief is Vedanta, which is that ultimately there is a singular consciousness. It's like a Hindu metaphysics, that basically we're all like characters in a play that consciousness is putting on to discover its own creative capacities.”

Play Character Belief Consciousness Creative Capacity Metaphysics Metaphysical Vedanta

Author:Daniel Pinchbeck

“You know, the truth is that us actors would all like to believe we re-invent the wheel, every time we play a character. But, we're human beings and our instruments are not violins, they are our bodies and our consciousness and our collective life experience.”

Knows Believe Humans Play Character Body Actors Human Beings Consciousness Truth Is Instruments Wheels Collectives Life Experience Violin

Author:John C. Reilly