“Gods and goddesses are not what people think they are. Their names are terms with which we try to convey a certain experience, a state of consciousness.” PeopleThinkingTryingStatesCertainNamesTermConsciousnessHinduismGoddessStates Of ConsciousnessGods And Goddesses Author:Frederick Lenz
“The word "God" is used in most cases as by no means a term of science or exact knowledge, but a term of poetry and eloquence, a term thrown out, so to speak, as a not fully grasped object of the speaker's consciousness -- a literary term, in short; and mankind mean different things by it as their consciousness differs.” MeanDifferentUsedSpeakTermConsciousnessCasesMankindObjectsThrownDifferent ThingsSpeakersEloquenceLiterary Terms Book:Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible Source: Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible
“Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence” ReasonUniverseTermConsciousnessProduceEssenceIntimateNo ReasonIncapable Author:Ezra Pound
“The changes in the Catholic Church since Vatican II can certainly be scanned in terms of this long retreat from the sacred which has followed the inception of consciousness into the human species.” HumansLongTermChurchConsciousnessCatholicSacredSpeciesRetreatCatholic ChurchHuman SpeciesInceptionVatican Ii Author:Julian Jaynes
“It would be wrong to interpret the growth of British national consciousness in this period in terms of a new cultural and political uniformity being resolutely imposed on the peripheries of the island by its centre. For many poorer and less literate Britons, Scotland, Wales and England remained more potent rallying calls than Great Britain, except in times of danger from abroad. And even among the politically educated, it was common to think in terms of dual nationalities, not a single national identity.” ThinkingWould BePoliticalGrowthTermCommonConsciousnessDangerIdentityPeriodsEnglandBritishEducatedIslandsBritainCentreScotlandNationalityGreat BritainWalesUniformityBritish HistoryPeripheryRallyingNational IdentityBritons Author:Linda Colley
“Our perception of space-time can be thought of in terms of event coordinates relative to our current state of consciousness.” StatesTermSpaceConsciousnessEventsPerceptionCurrentsRelativeStates Of ConsciousnessSpace TimeCoordinates Author:Wayne Gerard Trotman
“The enormous social change involved in a sexual revolution is basically a matter of altered consciousness, the exposure and elimination of social and psychological realities underlying political and cultural structures. We are speaking, then, of a cultural revolution, which, while it must necessarily involve the political and economic reorganization traditionally implied by the term revolution, must go far beyond this as well.” WellsMatterRealityPoliticalPoliticsSocialWomenTermConsciousnessEconomicRevolutionInvolvedStructureEnormousPsychologicalSexismSocial ChangeExposureAlteredEliminationImpliedSexual RevolutionReorganization Book:Sexual Politics Source: Sexual Politics
“When people use that stream of consciousness, it's kind of just a term they use for anything that looks slightly different on the page.” PeopleLooksKindDifferentUseTermConsciousnessPagesStreamsStream Of Consciousness Author:Zadie Smith
“Since ancient times the term awakening has been used as a kind of metaphor that points to the transformation of human consciousness. There are parables in the New Testament that speak of the importance of being awake, of not falling back to sleep.” HumansKindHas BeensUsedFallSpeakTermSleepConsciousnessImportanceTransformationAncientMetaphorAwakeningAwakeTestamentNew TestamentParablesHuman ConsciousnessAncient Times Author:Eckhart Tolle
“With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.” KnowsWorldBookSelfDreamDesireTermBornConsciousnessStandardsNew WorldSelf ConsciousSelf ConsciousnessStandards Set Author:Peter Abrahams
“It struck me that the popularity of Christmas is a matter of web-like consciousness. Childhood conditions us to relax and expand at Christmas, to forget petty worries and irritations and think in terms of universal peace. And so Christmas is the nearest to mystical experience that most human beings ever approach, with its memories of Dickens and Irving's Bracebridge Hall.” ThinkingHumansMatterTermMemoriesHuman BeingsForgetConsciousnessWorryChildhoodConditionsApproachUniversalChristmasRelaxHallsPopularityMysticalPettyDickensIrritationMystical Experiences Author:Colin Wilson
“How can you have in our country that is based upon liberality and liberation, be so anti-liberal. That's toxic waste to our consciousness. It's hard to be an American conservative because that's a contradiction in terms. Now if you take away freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of protest, and lock people out based upon their race, their language and their religion, that's conservative and fascist. America is a liberal idea.” PeopleIfsIdeasCountryHardAmericaLanguageTermRaceConsciousnessSpeechWastePressesConservativeOur CountryLiberationContradictionProtestToxicFreedom Of SpeechLocksFascistsFreedom Of The PressLiberalityToxic WasteAnti Liberal Author:Jesse Jackson
“Knowing that a great bit of the technology is active and actually happening, and that the technology that we're talking about, in terms of uploading a human consciousness, is probably not all that far away, to be honest. Indeed, it will happen. It's pretty close.” HumansHappensBitsTermConsciousnessTalkingTechnologyKnowingHonestHappeningsActiveBeing HonestFar AwayHuman Consciousness Author:Johnny Depp
“Most people who've never experienced non-ordinary states of consciousness and only hear them described tend to try to describe them in terms of the logical, rational way of looking at things, the so-called scientific explanation, which often leaves a lot lacking and doesn't really fulfill understanding the experience at all.” PeopleWayTryingStatesUnderstandingTermConsciousnessOrdinaryRationalExplanationLogicalLackingStates Of Consciousness Author:Fred Alan Wolf
“If I hadn't spent a big chunk of time in academia I might not have the depth of consciousness I do about ideas like that. I might think, for instance, that Freud was no big deal in terms of the shape of social organization then or now. I might think that the discourses of politics and law are real and stable and fair.” IfsThinkingIdeasRealBigsMightLawSocialTermDealsConsciousnessShapesFairsOrganizationDepthInstanceStableDiscourseBig DealAcademiaChunksSocial Organization Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“I guess I think that sex and desire and humiliation are central to my experience of consciousness - to my experience of humanness - and I wanted to explore the ways that they circle around and approach and fail to add up to love, or the ways that those three terms - sex, desire, love - can in some lights seem synonymous and in others like elements entirely alien to one another.” ThinkingWayLightSeemsWantedDesireThreeSexTermConsciousnessFailingElementsApproachAddCirclesAliensHumiliationHumannessDesire Love Author:Garth Greenwell
“When I edit the poems - and I do edit, which some people don't mean when they use the term "stream of consciousness" - I'm usually editing toward greater accuracy, which sometimes means more fragmentation, because that is the way I think.” PeopleThinkingWayMeanSometimesUseTermConsciousnessGreaterStreamsEditingAccuracyEditsFragmentationStream Of Consciousness Author:Rachel Zucker
“It's very interesting to think about the distinction with mind, which I just made in very general terms, but it can be made more profound when we think that there are many species, many creatures on earth that are very likely to have a mind, but are very unlikely to have a consciousness in the sense that you and I have.” ThinkingMindMadeEarthTermInterestingConsciousnessCreaturesProfoundSpeciesDistinctionUnlikelyVery Interesting Author:Antonio Damasio
“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 have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive. An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.” IfsNeedsWellsTermConsciousnessEvolutionOrganisms Author:Jerry Garcia
“The truth is that political consciousness in this country is pretty low... To the degree that we can help educate and organize people around the most important issues facing their lives and show that there is support for fundamental changes in the way we do business in the United States of America in terms of income inequality, in terms of low wages, in terms of disastrous trade policies, in terms of being the only major country not to have a national healthcare program - that's success.” PeopleWayImportantCountryStatesHelpingShowsAmericaPoliticalTermUnitedConsciousnessUnited StatesSupportIssuesPolicyTruth IsDegreesMajorsLowsProgramFundamentalsTradeIncomeInequalityEducateHealthcareOrganizeUnited States Of AmericaWagesImportant IssuesIncome Inequality Author:Bernie Sanders
“In the States, there has been, compared to the Sixties and Seventies, a huge retrenchment - not just in poetry - into the personal. A withdrawal from thinking in terms of social and collective values, needs and solutions. The consciousness-raising groups of the women's movement, for instance, becoming "support-groups" or therapy groups.” ThinkingNeedsHas BeensStatesValuesSocialTermConsciousnessSupportGroupsMovementHugeBecomingSolutionsInstanceTherapyCollectivesSixtySeventiesWithdrawalSupport Groups Author:Adrienne Rich
“People are interested in authentic long-term, socialist goals, which is not what is usually called socialism. They should be thinking through carefully how the projected society should work, but not in extensive detail because a lot of things just have to be learned by experiment and we don't know enough to plan societies in detail by any means. But, general guidelines could be worked out and many of the specific problems can be discussed. That should just be part of people's popular consciousness. That's how a transition to socialism could take place.” PeopleThinkingKnowsShouldMeanLongEnoughProblemGoalTermConsciousnessPlansDetailsExperimentsSocialismLong TermTransitionSocialistGuidelines Author:Noam Chomsky
“We're still really in catch-up mode in terms of alerting people to the risks of social media, to the kind of consciousness that you need to have when you do publish something. It used to be such a deliberate and elaborate process to get to publication with many steps and phases and editors and you know, now it's instantaneous and it's wonderful, you know, the immediacy and the power of that but it also can be dangerous.” PeopleKindTermConsciousnessWonderfulRiskDangerousSocial MediaPublish Author:Suzanne Nossel
“"The War on Consciousness" is really all physical manifestations and all those problems are ultimately just a war on your way of thinking. Especially now, when we're involved in the war on terror. Terror is a psychological term. Terrorism is a political term. Terrorist is a sociopolitical term. But terror is a psychological thing.” ThinkingWarProblemPoliticalTermConsciousnessTerrorTerrorismTerroristPsychologicalManifestationWar On Terror Author:Mark McGwire
“Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing with the erotic not only in sexual terms.” TermConsciousnessStepsOur LivesAbsolutesRecognitionErotic Author:Audre Lorde