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“My key to living an inspired life involves Embracing my history, Understanding the function of expectations and gently learning to have none; Recognizing the power of attentive and conscious choices. In all circumstances I acknowledge this, IN ALL THINGS AND ALL WAYS, I HAVE CHOICE. My choice resides in my perspective. While I certainly do not control climate and markets and roadways and others, I do control myself and my response to all those circumstances. I do indeed.”

Way Choices Understanding Learning Perspective Keys Circumstances Expectations Conscious All Things Function Climate Response Inspired Acknowledge Recognizing Control Myself

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down. The upper personality... is conscious and alert... The lower personality is a... perfect fool, but without it there is no literature.”

Mind Humans Two Literature Perfect Creativity Information Creation Fool Personality Conscious Function Deeper Surface Human Mind Two Personalities

Author:E. M. Forster

“Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of could drive us mad.”

Consciousness Conscious Function Mad Burden Adaptation Repression

Book:Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

“In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But all this is merely at the 'imaginary' level of the ego, which is no more than the tip of the iceberg of the human subject known to psychoanalysis. The ego is function or effect of a subject which is always dispersed, never identical with itself, strung out along the chains of the discourses which constitute it.”

Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction

“Soul one might say is more imperfectly infinite than spirit, because soul tends to abolish the ego-consciousness that it absorbs or overwhelms, reducing its particularizing structure to pure sublime feeling (immediacy); but spirit is more successfully infinite than soul, even though also more difficult and abstruse, because it digests the functions of consciousness into itself and thus preserves and deploys the senses and intelligence of conscious ego to higher ends.”

Soul Ends Feelings Might Spirit Difficult Consciousness Higher Pure Ego Conscious Function Infinite Structure Senses Preserves Sublime Reducing Abolish Immediacy

Author:Kenny Smith

“The idea that we are "stewards of the earth" is another symptom of human arrogance. Imagine yourself with the task of overseeing your body's physical processes. Do you understand the way it works well enough to keep all its systems in operation? Can you make your kidneys function? Can you control the removal of waste? Are you conscious of the blood flow through your arteries, or the fact that you are losing a hundred thousand skin cells a minute?”

“A worldview is not the same things a formal philosophy, otherwise it would only be for philosophers. Even ordinary people have a set of convictions about how reality functions and how they should live. Some convictions are conscious while others are unconscious but together they form a consistent picture of reality.”

People Should Philosophy Reality Together Form Ordinary Conscious Function Philosopher Conviction Unconscious Consistent Formal Ordinary People Worldview

Author:Nancy Pearcey

“I don't think theory adds to criticism. (Methodology does, for better or worse.) Theory's function is to make criticism self-conscious, maybe even a little sheepish, about its ex cathedra pronouncements.”

Thinking Littles Doe Self Theory Conscious Criticism Function Add Exes Self Conscious Methodology

Author:Paul Fry

“The fifty trillion cells in your body are constantly talking to each other as they keep your heart beating, digest your food, eliminate toxins, protect you from infection and disease, and carry out the countless other functions that keep you alive. While these processes may seem out of your conscious control, hundreds of studies have shown that nothing holds more power over the body than the mind.”

Mind Heart May Body Seems Process Talking Study Alive Protect Disease Conscious Function Your Body Cells Fifty Infection Protect You Heart Beat Toxins Heart Beating

Author:Deepak Chopra

“A fixed habit is supported by old, well-worn pathways in the brain. When you make conscious choices to change a habit, you create new pathways. At the same time, you strengthen the decision-making function of the cerebral cortex while diminishing the grip of the lower, instinctual brain. So without judging your habit, whether it feels like a good one or a bad one, take time to break the routine, automatic response that habit imposes.”

Feels Wells Choices Decision Brain Break Judging Habit Conscious Function Response Fixed Decision Making Routine Take Time Worn Pathways Cerebral

Author:Deepak Chopra

“The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!”

Knows Needs Waiting Conscious Function Psychics

Author:Jacques Lacan

“How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet look about us as in a dream, with eyes that no longer know their function and whose gaze is turned inward.”

Knows Looks May Hard Dream Eye Sleep Conscious Function Inward Clinging

Book:The Theater and Its Double

Source: The Theater and Its Double

“Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.”

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.”

“The first thing to remember is the dual nature of your mind. The subconscious mind is constantly amenable to the power of suggestion; furthermore the subconscious mind has complete control of the functions, conditions, and sensations of your body. Trust the subconscious mind to heal you. It made your body, and it knows all of its processes and functions. It knows much more than your conscious mind about healing and restoring you to perfect balance.”

“The brain is not, like the liver, heart and other internal organs, capable from the moment of birth of all the functions which it ever discharges; for while in common with them, it has certain duties for the exercise of which it is especially intended, its high character in man, as the organ of conscious life, the supreme instrument of his relations with the rest of nature, is developed only by a long and patient training.”

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Author:Ray V. Pierce

“Choosing colours should not be a gamble. It should be a conscious decision. Colours have a meaning and a function.”

Should Decision Conscious Function Colour Gamble

Author:Verner Panton