“There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them. No one should want to. Perfect joy, or perfect pain, with no contrasting element to define them, would mean a monotony of consciousness, would mean death” WayWantShouldMayMeanPainJoyPerfectConsciousnessElementsUglinessLife HappinessMonotonyJoy And Pain Author:Jean Toomer
“As long as you wish to separate yourself from the immortal consciousness, you will suffer. You will experience the pain of the separation, the abridgment of infinite mind in finite form.” MindLongPainFormSufferingWishConsciousnessInfiniteSeparationImmortalFinite Author:Frederick Lenz
“Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resistance, strength, and a capacity for regeneration. When self-esteem is low, our resilience in the face of life's adversities is diminished. We crumble before vicissitudes that a healthier sense of self could vanquish. We tend to be more influenced by the desire to avoid pain than to experience joy. Negatives have more power over us than positives.” SelfPainFacesJoyDesireConsciousnessSocietyEffectsSelf EsteemLowsCapacityAdversityResilienceResistanceEsteemProvidingImmuneSense Of SelfImmune SystemRegenerationVicissitudesVanquishPositive Self Book:Power of Self Esteem Source: Power of Self Esteem
“You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.” PainTimeLeftConsciousnessSeaEternityBoundariesYou Left Me Book:The Poems of Emily Dickinson Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Miracles have a purpose. Miracles help people believe in enlightenment. The real miracle is the transformation of consciousness from limitation and pain to enlightenment and ecstasy.” PeopleBelieveRealHelpingPainPurposeConsciousnessTeacherEnlightenmentMiracleTransformationLimitationEnlightenedEcstasy Author:Frederick Lenz
“Shaw does not merely decorate a proposition, but makes his way from point to point through new and difficult territory. This explains why Shaw must either be taken whole or left alone. He must be disassembled and put together again with nothing left out, under pain of incomprehension; for his politics, his art, and his religion - to say nothing of the shape of his sentences - are unique expressions of this enormously enlarged and yet concentrated consciousness.” WayDoeArtWholePainTogetherLeftDifficultConsciousnessTakenExpressionShapesUniqueSentencesTerritoryPropositionsLeft AloneLeft OutTogether AgainIncomprehension Author:Jacques Barzun
“Success, failure, pain, small furry animals, household products, freeways, Star Wars systems - all are interlinked in the dance of tantra, the disco of the mind, the ballroom of cosmic consciousness.” MindWarPhilosophyPainStarsAnimalConsciousnessProductsCosmicHouseholdSuccess FailureTantraDiscoBallroomFreewaysCosmic ConsciousnessFurry Author:Frederick Lenz
“The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains.” MenPainEnjoyPleasurePayConsciousnessDutyHonorRewards Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“Obviously there is pain in childbirth. But giving birth is also a moment of awe and wonder, a moment when the true miracle of aliveness, and of a woman's amazing part in that miracle, is suddenly experienced in every cell of one's body. It is in that sense truly an altered state of consciousness.” GivingStatesMomentsBodyPainConsciousnessWonderBirthMiracleCellsAweAlteredChildbirthGiving BirthStates Of ConsciousnessAwe And WonderAltered StatesAltered States Of Consciousness Author:Riane Eisler
“Strangely enough we strengthen love in ourselves when we raise into consciousness the shadow side of our lives. Conversely, when we keep negative feelings out of sight, they smother the love that seems to lie deeper and closer to the real self. This is probably why there is so much pain in not loving. The life that is not able to express the love which is so integral to it grows deformed.” RealSelfEnoughFeelingsSeemsAblePainLyingGrowsSidesConsciousnessOur LivesShadowNegativeSightRaisesDeeperReal SelfNegative FeelingsShadow Side Author:Elizabeth O'Connor
“Fortunately for the human race, pain, however piercing, is not a lasting emotion. The recollection of happiness lingers, but the consciousness never retains for long the first thrust of tragic loss. The details of daily life crowd in upon the mind.” MindFirstsHumansLongPainLossRaceEmotionConsciousnessDetailsCrowdsHuman RaceTragicDaily LifeLastingThrustRecollectionPiercingsTragic Loss Author:Wallis Simpson
“There is a Restlessness springing from the consciousness of power not fully utilized, which must be present wherever there is unused power of whatever kind. This is the restlessness of the germ within the seed, struggling upward and downward towards its proper life.it is a striving full of pain, the cutting of tender flesh by the fetters of the captive as he struggles against their pitilessness.” KindPainConsciousnessPowerStruggleCuttingStriveSeedsFleshFrustrationGermsRestlessnessCaptivesFetters Author:Anna Brackett
“Something like Nightmare On Elm Street, to me, was kind of an examination of levels of consciousness and the pain of facing the truth, and how easy it is to fall asleep, or want to fall asleep.” WantKindPainFallEasyLevelsConsciousnessStreetsNightmareExaminationFacing The TruthNightmare On Elm Street Author:Wes Craven
“Human pain does not let go of its grip at one point in time. Rather, it works its way out of our consciousness over time. There is a season of sadness. A season of anger. A season of tranquility. A season of hope.” WayHumansDoePainConsciousnessSadnessLetting GoSeasonsTranquility Author:Robert Veninga
“So give your complete attention to what you feel, and refrain from mentally labeling it. As you go into the feeling, be intensely alert. At first, it may seem like a dark and terrifying place, and when the urge to turn away from it comes, observe it but don’t act on it. Keep putting your attention on the pain, keep feeling the grief, the fear, the dread, the loneliness, whatever it is. Stay alert, stay present - present with your whole Being, with every cell of your body. As you do so, you are bringing a light into this darkness. This is the flame of your consciousness.” GivingFeelsFirstsMayWholeFeelingsBodyLightSeemsPainTurnsDarkGriefAttentionConsciousnessDarknessLonelinessYour BodyCellsFlamesUrgesDreadRefrainLabeling Author:Eckhart Tolle