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“I know there's a consciousness energy that operates completely independent of the physical body you inhabit, that maintains... awareness after the body's gone.”

Knows Body Energy Consciousness Gone Awareness Independent Physical Body

Author:Phoebe Snow

“The Marxist combination of materialism and determinism is fatally anti-humanistic. It denies a consciousness, a mind, that is independent of material conditions and class relations. It denies a will and volition that are capable of shaping the course of history. It denies an individuality that is not reducible to class. It denies both the idea and the reality of freedom, a freedom that is something more than the "bourgeois" freedom to buy and sell. It denies a morality that transcends class interests. And it denies the spirituality of man.”

Source: On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society

“It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his or her life may, no doubt, be recognized as a Person; but he or she has not attained the truth of this recognition as an independent self-consciousness.”

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Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“The mind of one meditating on a single object becomes one-pointed. And one-pointedness of mind leads to abidance in the self. Real attainment is to be fully conscious, to be aware of surroundings and the people around, to move among them all, but not to merge consciousness in the environment. One should remain in inner independent awareness.”

People Should Mind Real Self Moving Consciousness Environment Awareness Objects Conscious Yoga Independent Surroundings Attainment Meditating

Author:Ramana Maharshi

“Men were considered "free" only so that they might be considered guilty - could be judged and punished: consequently, every act had to be considered as willed, and the origin of every act had to be considered as lying within the consciousness (and thus the most fundamental psychological deception was made the principle of psychology itself).”

Men Made Might Lying Consciousness Principles Psychology Independent Fundamentals Psychological Guilty Deception Judged

Book:Twilight of the Idols

Source: Twilight of the Idols

“The doctrine that the world is made up of objects whose existence is independent of human consciousness turns out to be in conflict with quantum mechanics and with facts established by experiment.”

World Humans Made Facts Turns Existence Consciousness Objects Conflict Independent Physics Experiments Doctrine Quantum Mechanic Quantum Physics Quantum Mechanics Human Consciousness

Author:Bernard d'Espagnat

“Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses.”

Grows Consciousness Ordinary Conscious Independent Senses

Book:The Spirit of St. Louis

Source: The Spirit of St. Louis

“There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).”

Reality Action Courses Memories Consciousness Effects Independent Various Vehicle

Author:Daniel Dennett

“If things do not exist as fixed, independent entities, then how can they die? Our notion of death as the sudden expiration of that which was once so real starts to unwind. If things do not exist in their own right and are flickering rather than static, then we can no longer fear their ultimate demise. We may fear their instability, or their emptiness, but the looming threat of death starts to seem absurd. Things are constantly dying, we find. Or rather, they are constantly in flux, arising and passing away with each moment of consciousness.”

Ifs May Real Moments Seems Dies Consciousness Dying Ultimate Independent Threat Notion Passing Absurd Passings Fixed Emptiness Entity Static Passing Away Demise Instability Flux Unwind Looming

Author:Mark Epstein

“Education as the practice of freedom--as opposed to education as the practice of domination--denies that man is abstract, isolated, independent and unattached to the world; it also denies that the world exists as reality apart from people. Authentic reflection considers neither abstract man nor the world without people, but people in their relations with the world. In these relations consciousness and world are simultaneous: consciousness neither precedes the world nor follows it.”

People Men World Reality Consciousness Practice Reflection Relation Independent Deny Abstract Isolated Domination Simultaneous

Book:Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition