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“Consciousness is the stone that creates the waves in a sea of nothing”

Consciousness Sea Stones Wave

Author:Richard Gerber

“You do not attain to knowledge by remaining on the shore and watching the foaming waves, you must make the venture and cast yourself in, you must swim, alert and with all your force, even if a moment comes when you think you are losing consciousness; in this way, and in no other, do you reach anthropological insight.”

Ifs Thinking Way Moments Force Consciousness Losing Casts Wave Insight Swim Shore Venture

Book:Between Man and Man

Source: Between Man and Man

“Some authors state that the last stage in this chain of measurements involves "consciousness," or the "intellectual inner life" of the observer, by virtue of the "principle of psycho-physical parallelism." Other authors introduce a wave function for the entire universe. In this book, I shall refrain from using concepts that I do not understand.”

Book States Lasts Universe Consciousness Principles Virtue Stage Intellectual Concepts Function Wave Chains Introducing Observers Measurement Inner Life Refrain Psycho Parallelism

Author:Asher Peres

“Below the incandescent stars / below the incandescent fruit, / the strange experience of beauty; / its existence is too much; / it tears one to pieces / and each fresh wave of consciousness / is poison.”

Stars Existence Consciousness Beauty Too Much Pieces Tears Strange Fruit Wave Poison

Book:Observations: Poems

Source: Observations: Poems

“So briefly do we raise our heads, so quick sink back. For a moment we are lifted by a wave of time, are tossed up into the sunlight of consciousness We cannot see so far as where this wave began, but maybe we have waited some thousand years for it to come, and now it is on us. This is our moment, the wave is breaking. The crest which passes through us now in tumult was shaped by the past, and we in this moment are able to shape the crest which is to come.”

Years Moments Able Past Consciousness Thousand Shapes Raises Wave Sunlight Thousand Years Tumult

Author:Allen Wheelis

“In my lifetime, I've met a lot of people who never rode a wave, but we share the same consciousness. Surfing is a kind of a state of mind... I mean, it's a feeling that people have about their life that really, in a way, kind of makes them a surfer.”

People Way Mind Kind Mean States Feelings Consciousness Share Mets Lifetime Wave State Of Mind Surfing Surfer

Author:Gerry Lopez

“Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean.”

Thinking Consciousness Ocean Wave Surface Ripple Vast Ocean

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Strictly speaking, "you" cannot become enlightened, because who you take yourself to be is like a ripple in the ocean of consciousness - or a little wave if you're a VIP - and the ripple doesn't become enlightened until it realizes that its ripple-identity is ultimately a misperception, that it is the ocean taking on a fleeting ripple-form.”

Ifs Littles Form Realizing Consciousness Identity Ocean Wave Enlightened Fleeting Ripple Misperception Vip

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression into silence, our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.”

Source: George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss

“Christ, Buddha, and Krishna are but waves in the Ocean of Infinite Consciousness that I am!”

Christ Consciousness Ocean Infinite Wave Krishna Infinite Consciousness

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“You are the vanguard of knowledge and consciousness; a new wave in a vast ocean of possibilities.”

Consciousness Possibility Ocean Wave Vanguard Vast Ocean

Author:Jim Carrey

“Second Wave feminism started with consciousness-raising groups, which sounds "big" but it's really just house parties. Women getting together and saying, "You feel this way?! Me too!" Hanging out is consciousness-raising.”

Way Feels Bigs Together House Sound Party Consciousness Groups Feminism Wave Hanging Out House Party

Author:Ani DiFranco