“A curious thing happened: the terrains of England began to impinge on my consciousness, altering, then effacing, the world outside the library window… I was wrapped in a pleasurable dreaminess. I was in a better place. If true life existed elsewhere, then I had almost found it.” IfsWorldFoundConsciousnessHappenedWindowEnglandLibraryThings HappenCuriousElsewhereBetter PlaceTrue LifeTerrain Author:Garry Disher
“All of us tend to look at photographs as if we are simply gazing through a two-dimensional window onto some outside world. This is almost a perceptual necessity; in order to see what the photograph is of, we must first repress our consciousness of what the photograph is.” IfsWorldFirstsLooksTwoOrderConsciousnessWindowPhotographOutside WorldGazing Author:Geoffrey Batchen
“We can open up our computers and Skype with someone, and we see them. It's like looking through a window. And we can surf the internet through our phones, and it's like our consciousness is far away. Or we can step through a airplane door and be in another continent a few hours away. So technology feels, to me, like the doors sort of already exist, at least emotionally.” FeelsHoursConsciousnessStepsTechnologyDoorsInternetComputerWindowPhonesAirplaneFar AwayContinentsSurfSkype Author:Mohsin Hamid
“My grandfather was a Holocaust survivor and his life and history were very formative to myself and my family. The almost unimaginable dichotomy between the different eras of his life always crushed my brain on some level. That this guy who was shoveling carob chips out of a barrel and restocking yogurt popsicles could also have those numbers on his arm. It was an inconceivable juxtaposition. His experience was the main window for our family into any kind of social consciousness, or sense of history, or politics, even though a lot of it went unsaid.” KindDifferentGuyBrainConsciousnessWindowMy FamilyOur FamilySurvivorHolocaustGrandfatherCrushedMy GrandfatherDichotomy Author:Jonathan Raymond
“The way of peace is a soul journey. . . . If you can live from the level of your soul, you are doing something very special. The important thing is how much consciousness you add to the whole of human existence, for that is how eternity expresses itself, like a lamp shining through the window of eternity.” IfsWayHumansImportantSoulWholeSpiritualLevelsExistenceConsciousnessJourneySpecialWindowEternityImportant ThingsAddShiningYour SoulLampsHuman ExistenceShining Through Author:Deepak Chopra