“Progress changes consciousness, and when people's consciousness changes, then their awareness of what is possible changes as well - a virtuous circle.” PeopleWellsConsciousnessProgressAwarenessCirclesVirtuousPossible Change Author:William J. Clinton
“I like to summarize what I regard as the pedestal-smashing messages of Darwin's revolution in the following statement, which might be chanted several times a day, like a Hare Krishna mantra, to encourage penetration into the soul: Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life, which, if replanted from seed, would almost surely not grow this twig again, or perhaps any twig with any property that we would care to call consciousness.” IfsHumansLittlesSoulEndsMightCareGrowsResultsConsciousnessProgressRevolutionMessagesRegardPropertyFollowingSeedsTinyStatementsCosmicPredictableKrishnaMantrasPedestalEnd ResultsHaresSmashingTwigsPenetrationAfterthoughtFortuitousHare Krishna Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“Samadhi is the journey from individual to collective consciousness. The steps of Samadhi are the steps towards reaching the collective consciousness. In meditation, the more we radiate love, compassion, peace, harmony and tranquility, the more is our contribution towards the collective consciousness. The more we positively contribute towards the collective consciousness the more is our progress in Samadhi.” IndividualConsciousnessCompassionStepsMeditationProgressJourneyHarmonyContributionReachingCollectivesTranquilityPositivelySamadhiCollective ConsciousnessPeace Harmony Author:Amit Ray
“Death is a stage in human progress, to be passed as we would pass from childhood to youth, or from youth to manhood, and with the same consciousness of an everlasting nature.” HumansDeathConsciousnessProgressChildhoodStageYouthManhoodEverlastingHuman Progress Author:Edmund Sears
“It is inherent in human consciousness to improve. So there is nothing unique about a people searching for and creating ways to make their life better - all civilizations throughout history have done this. What is unique about us in America is the accelerated rate at which we continually search for novelty and progress.” PeopleWayHumansDoneAmericaConsciousnessUnited StatesProgressCivilizationCreatingUniqueRateInherentNoveltyHuman ConsciousnessNewness Book:Real Moments Source: Real Moments
“If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious falls an easy victim, the personal consciousness of every individual should be cultivated to the highest degree possible.” IfsShouldFallIndividualSocialEasyConsciousnessProgressSubjectsDiseaseDegreesHighestBasesVictimSubconsciousEpidemicsHumanistic Author:Boris Sidis
“The worst feature of this double consciousness is, that the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead, reallyshow very little relation to each other; never meet and measure each other: one prevails now, all buzz and din; and the other prevails then, all infinitude and paradise; and, with the progress of life, the two discover no greater disposition to reconcile themselves.” LittlesTwoSoulUnderstandingConsciousnessGreaterProgressWorstRelationFeaturesParadiseDispositionReconcileBuzzTwo Lives Book:Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book) Source: Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)
“The thought of both East and West (philosophies) can indeed be integrated into a higher truth. They show us that the West is correct in maintaining that life is about progress about evolving toward something higher. Yet the East is also correct in emphasizing that we must let go of control with the ego. We can't progress by using logic alone. We have to attain a fuller consciousness, an inner connection with God, because only then can our evolution toward something better be guided by a higher part of ourselves.” PhilosophyShowsLife IsConsciousnessProgressEvolutionHigherLetting GoEgoConnectionsLogicWestEastEvolveMaintainingSomething BetterIntegratedSelf ConsciousnessEast And WestCelestine Prophecy Author:James Redfield
“No matter how consummate a work of art may seem, it is only an approximation of the original conception. It is the artist's consciousness of this discrepancy between his conception and the realization that assures his progress.” MayArtMatterSeemsArtistConsciousnessProgressOriginalsRealizationWorks Of ArtConceptionApproximationDiscrepanciesDiscrepancies Between Author:Edgard Varese
“To my knowledge nobody - no one who is publishing papers in the main field of AI - is even working on consciousness. I think there are some neuroscientists who are trying to understand it, but I'm not aware that they've made any progress.” ThinkingTryingMadeConsciousnessProgressFieldsPaperPublishingPapers Author:Stuart J. Russell
“We have no proper understanding of the relationship between conscious thought and conscious sensation. The various forms of thought and sensation are underpinned by very different neural mechanisms; so how can the neural correlate of their conscious natures be the same? I don't think we are yet in a position to make such speculations. To make progress, we have to have a good conception of the phenomenology of consciousness, among other things.” ThinkingDifferentUnderstandingConsciousnessProgressConsciousVariousSpeculation Author:Tim Crane