“The capacity to recognize significant factors in a given situation is limited by the context that arises from the level of consciousness of the observer.” GivenLevelsConsciousnessSituationCapacitySignificantAriseFactorsObservers Author:David Hawkins
“Encounter every situation with your total consciousness, without any guilt. Enjoy music, enjoy food, enjoy love - enjoy everything that is natural.” EnjoyNaturalConsciousnessSituationGuiltEncounters Author:Rajneesh
“A writer has a use for his experiences that most civilians simply don't; he or she discerns material in situations that others simply live through. Perhaps there are some who disapprove of this, but without this double consciousness, literature would not get made at all.” MadeUseLiteratureConsciousnessSituationMaterialsCivilians Author:Walter Kirn
“Another thing that's good about writing to describe a situation or a state of consciousness is that you can finally get it right. That was my intention, and that's always interesting.” WritingStatesInterestingConsciousnessSituationIntentionStates Of Consciousness Author:Richard Hell
“I think that the global consciousness concerning all those elements that produce tension, fractions of societies, is changing in the sense that we all tend to understand a little more the needs for harmonizing the process and integrating races and cultures and producing multiculturalism and different melting-pot situations. That affects global things, tolerating the Arab, the African, the Eastern civilizations, getting rid of this hegemonic dominance by the West. That's all comprehensive now in terms both of understanding and approaching the whole planet.” ThinkingNeedsLittlesDifferentWholeCultureProcessUnderstandingTermRaceConsciousnessSituationProducePlanetsCivilizationElementsWestTensionPotEasternMulticulturalismComprehensiveMeltingFractionsIntegratingDominanceMelting Pot Author:Gilberto Gil
“I understand why people are discouraged about Iraq. I can understand that. We live in a, you know, world in which people hope things happen quickly. And this is a situation where things don't happen quickly because there's, you know, a very tough group of people using tactics - mainly the killing of innocent people - to achieve their objective, and they're skillful about how they do this. And they also know the impact of what it means on the consciousness of those of us who live in the free world. They know that.” PeopleWorldMeanConsciousnessSituationAchieveToughKillingThings HappenInnocentDiscouraged Author:George W. Bush
“We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.” PainBitsLosesHurtConsciousnessSituationHorsePainfulAwakeningBowsSubmit Book:Formative Writings (Routledge Revivals) Source: Formative Writings (Routledge Revivals)
“Why is failure the first thing I think of when I find myself in this sort of situation? Why can't I just enjoy myself? But if you have to ask the question, then you know you're lost: self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy. Already I'm wondering whether she's as aware of my erection as I am.” IfsThinkingKnowsMenFirstsSelfAsksLostEnjoyConsciousnessSituationWonderEnemyWorstSelf ConsciousnessWorst Enemy Book:High Fidelity Source: High Fidelity