“The national parklands have a major role in providing superlative opportunities for outdoor recreation, but they have other people serving values. They can provide an experience in conservation education for the young people of the country; they can enrich our literary and artistic consciousness; they can help create social values; contribute to our civic consciousness; remind us of our debt to the land of our fathers.” PeopleCountryHelpingYoungValuesFatherOpportunitySocialConsciousnessRolesLandMajorsDebtArtisticParksServingProvidingConservationOur FatherCivicsRecreationSocial ValuesSuperlativesOutdoor Recreation Author:Stewart Udall
“The Orient that appears in Orientalism, then, is a system of representations framed by a whole set of forces that brought the Orient into Western learning, Western consciousness, and later, Western empire.... The Orient is the stage on which the whole East is confined. On this stage will appear the figures whose role it is to represent the larger whole from which they emenate. The Orient then seems to be, not an unlimited extension beyond the familiar European world, but rather a closed field, a theatrical stage affixed to Europe.” WorldWholeSeemsForceConsciousnessRolesStageFiguresFieldsEuropeWesternEastFamiliarEmpiresRepresentationExtensionsUnlimitedConfinedTheatricalFramedOrientalism Author:Edward Said
“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.” PlayMomentsDesireConsciousnessRolesFoolLaughterCriticismLustRealmsSense Of HumorTolerateTechnological Book:Moral Philosophy and the Modern World Source: Moral Philosophy and the Modern World
“What Women's Lib might achieve if their 'consciousness raising' - or in plain English, brainwashing- campaign succeeds is a society whose members have identical roles but are perpetually at war with themselves; a society of males made neurotic by suppressed masculinity, of females made miserable by having masculine roles thrust upon them that contradict their feminine impulses.” IfsMadeWarMightConsciousnessRolesAchieveSucceedMembersFemaleMalesCampaignsMiserableImpulseFeminineMasculinityMasculineIdenticalNeuroticThrustBrainwashingPlain English Author:Arianna Huffington
“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.” WorldFirstsHas BeensPlayLightSeemsConsciousnessRolesConscienceConceptsNotionApplicationTransformedProtestants Author:Gilbert Ryle
“The role that theater has placed in enhancing consciousness and moving systems ahead. I think of what South African theater meant for the apartheid movement, for example. I think of what music has meant for so many social movements across time.” ThinkingMovingSocialConsciousnessRolesExampleMovementTheaterSouthSouth AfricaApartheidSocial Movements Author:Saul Williams
“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.” NeedsLooksUseLyingSufferingConsciousnessRolesPracticeMindfulnessGardenRootsPlantSeedsGuidesWho We AreGardenerGreatest Gifts Author:Nhat Hanh
“The contemporary memoir is playing an important role in at least just bringing certain relationships out into the open in American society, and also it's a place where the novel of development, the novel of consciousness, has gone.” ImportantCertainConsciousnessRolesNovelGoneDevelopmentMemoirContemporaryAmerican Society Author:Marco Roth
“And it (the left brain) has a massive role within this reality, yes. It is basically the point where infinite consciousness joins this reality. It’s that conduit. But if you get trapped in it, and imprisoned by it, you become the decoding mechanism itself and it becomes your awareness.” IfsRealityLeftBrainConsciousnessRolesAwarenessInfiniteMassiveMechanismTrappedLeft BrainInfinite Consciousness Author:David Icke