“It's like looking at the sun, that's how infinity is. You can't look at it for too long or you dissolve. The bands of your attention break. But if you look at it in specific ways, you can become something or someone much more conscious.” IfsWayLooksLongAttentionBreakSunAwarenessBuddhismBandConsciousInfinity Author:Frederick Lenz
“Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes.” LongHateNaturalIgnoranceRepublicanConsciousResourcesVoteWingsUnconsciousCollectivesApathyRight WingNatural ResourcesShortageConscious And Unconscious Author:Janeane Garofalo
“Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze, A visitant that while it fans my cheek Doth seem half-conscious of the joy it brings From the green fields, and from yon azure sky. Whate'er its mission, the soft breeze can come To none more grateful than to me; escaped From the vast city, where I long had pined A discontented sojourner: now free, Free as a bird to settle where I will.” LongSeemsJoyCitiesHalfSkyFansFieldsBlessingBirdConsciousGratefulGreenMissionsGentleSettlingCheeksBreezeAzureGreen FieldsSojourners Author:William Wordsworth
“A man likes to believe that he is the master of his soul. But as long as he is unable to control his moods and emotions, or to be conscious of the myriad secret ways in which unconscious factors insinuate themselves into his arrangements and decisions, he is certainly not his own master.” MenWayBelieveLongSoulDecisionSecretEmotionMastersConsciousMoodLikesFactorsUnconsciousArrangements Author:Carl Jung
“Wherever moral ambition exists, there right exists. And moral ambition itself must be presumed present in subconsciousness, even when the conscious self seems to reject it, so long as society has resources for bringing it into action; in much the same way that the life-saver presumes life to exist in the drowned man until he has exhausted his resources for recovering respiration.” MenWayLongSelfSeemsActionMoralAmbitionConsciousResourcesRejectsExhaustedRecoveringRespiration Author:William Ernest Hocking