“It seems the best approach for any venture is a combo platter - Japan's quality-consciousness paired with America's willingness to experiment and (sometimes) fail.” SometimesSeemsAmericaConsciousnessQualityFailingApproachExperimentsJapanWillingnessVenture Author:Daniel H. Pink
“What we see in this world is a gross abnormality. The human consciousness fails to perceive the very simple, divine nature of every atom in every moment.” WorldHumansMomentsHumanitySimpleConsciousnessFailingThis WorldDivineBuddhismPerceiveAtomsGrossHuman ConsciousnessDivine NatureAbnormality Author:Frederick Lenz
“As a composer, I believe that music has the power to inspire a renewal of human consciousness, culture, and politics. And yet I refuse to make political art. More often than not political art fails as politics, and all too often it fails as art. To reach its fullest power, to be most moving and most fully useful to us, art must be itself.” BelieveHumansArtMovingPoliticalCultureI BelieveConsciousnessFailingInspireRefuseComposerRenewalHuman ConsciousnessPolitical Art Author:John Luther Adams
“Moral improvement (or perfecting) require an evolution leading to a higher consciousness, which is the true torch of life; it is what we have failed too much to appreciate, and that which would be fatal to fail to appreciate any longer ("pluslongtemps", Fr.); For if we do not take it upon ourselves to remedy in time to the moral colapse (or bankruptcy) that already threaten, the whole civilisation will risks to disappear.” IfsWholeWould BeConsciousnessMoralToo MuchFailingRiskEvolutionHigherAppreciateDisappearImprovementRemedyCivilisationTorchesBankruptcyHigher Consciousness Author:African Spir
“Those who deny the change in consciousness that the divine process of creation now brings about-or actually imposes on us-and fail to develop their intuition accordingly will sooner or later find themselves at a dead end.” EndsProcessConsciousnessFailingCreationDivineDenyIntuitionSooner Or LaterDead Ends Book:The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness Source: The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness
“The machine not only does it relieve us mechanically of a crushing weight of physical and mental labor; but by the miraculous enhancing of our senses, through its powers of enlargement, penetration and exact measurement, it constantly increases the scope and clarity of our perceptions. It fulfills the dream of all living creatures by satisfying our instinctive craving for the maximum of consciousness with a minimum of effort! Having embarked upon so profitable a path, how can Mankind fail to pursue it?” DoeDreamEffortConsciousnessPathFailingMankindCreaturesPerceptionLaborMachinesWeightIncreaseSensesPursueClarityCrushSatisfyingMinimumScopeCravingMiraculousMaximumProfitableMeasurementLiving CreaturesPenetrationEnlargement Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“Striving for longevity through versatility facilitates what we might call an ecological or true materialism. ... we are not truly materialist because we fail to invest deep or sacred meanings in material goods. Instead, our materialism connotes an unbounded desire to acquire followed by a throwaway mentality. True materialism could become part of a new ecological consciousness.” MightDesireConsciousnessFailingMaterialsSacredStriveAcquireMaterialismGoodsMentalityLongevityEcologicalFacilitateVersatility Author:Juliet B. Schor
“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