“Oh, the glory of growth, silent, mighty, persistent, inevitable! To awaken, to open up like a flower to the light of a fuller consciousness!” LightGrowthConsciousnessFlowerGlorySilentInevitablePersistent Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr
“The American psychologist Julian Jaynes, in a controversial study on the origin of consciousness, argued that the bicameral mind - in which one of the hemispheres becomes specialized in silent reading - is a late development in humankind's evolution, and that the process by which this function develops is still changing.” MindStillsReadingProcessConsciousnessStudyDevelopmentEvolutionLateFunctionSilentHumankindControversialPsychologistHemisphere Author:Alberto Manguel
“As the smallest drop of water detached from the ocean contains all the qualities of the ocean, so man, detached in consciousness from the Infinite, contains within him its likeness; and as the drop of water must, by the law of its nature, ultimately find its way back to the ocean and lose itself in its silent depths, so must man, by the unfailing law of his nature, at last return to his source, and lose himself in the great ocean of the Infinite.” MenWayLastsLawWaterNatureLosesConsciousnessQualitySourceReturnOceanInfiniteSilentDepthSmallestDetachedDrop Of Water Book:The Way of Peace Source: The Way of Peace
“But can one not conceive of a presence, and of a presence to itself of the subject before speech or signs, a presence to itself of the subject in a silent and intuitive consciousness? Such a question therefore presupposes that, prior to the sign, and outside it, excluding any trace and any différance, something like consciousness is possible.” ConsciousnessSubjectsSpeechSilentIntuitive Author:Jacques Derrida
“As you meditate, over time your consciousness becomes awake within itself. The silent witness within saturates and illuminates the mind so that it does not look to the past or the future for fulfillment. It experiences peace and freedom within itself in every moment.” MindLooksDoeMomentsPastConsciousnessSilentWitnessFulfillmentAwake Author:Deepak Chopra