“Though I know consciousness kind of boxes you in, it still encompasses the artists that I knew were conscious throughout history of music - they're the ones that you look at as the legends.” KnowsLooksKindStillsArtistConsciousnessConsciousBoxesLegendsHistory Of Music Author:Will Ferrell
“To become aware of the subtlety of nature you need to be alert. The moment you become alert you become still... thinking subsides. That is actually a higher state of consciousness than thinking.” ThinkingNeedsStillsStatesMomentsConsciousnessHigherSubtletyStates Of Consciousness Author:Eckhart Tolle
“Meditation without selfless giving is not enough. You may go into very high states of consciousness but the rough edges will still be there - there may be lots of selfish motives lurking within the self - that you don't see.” GivingMayStillsSelfStatesEnoughConsciousnessMeditationYogaEdgesSelfishKarmaMotiveRoughSelflessKarma YogaLurkingStates Of ConsciousnessSelfless GivingSelfish MotivesRough Edges Author:Frederick Lenz
“Mysterious spaces cause us to turn inward. Amid a rich upwelling of association, we encounter many aspects of ourselves. As we grow still, we come in contact with a unified, empty, yet full ground of our being. As our consciousness grows more spacious, we find connections between us and the wider world, a shared greater reality.” WorldStillsRealityTurnsGrowsCausesSpaceConsciousnessRichGreaterAspectEmptyConnectionsContactMysteriousEncountersAssociationInwardUnified Author:John Paul Caponigro
“The woman who fights against her father still has the possibility of leading an instinctive, feminine existence, because she rejects only what is alien to her. But when she fights against the mother she may, at the risk of injury to her instincts, attain to greater consciousness, because in repudiating the mother she repudiates all that is obscure, instinctive, ambiguous, and unconscious in her own nature.” MayStillsMotherFightingFatherExistenceConsciousnessGreaterRiskPossibilityInstinctAliensUnconsciousInjuryRejectsFeminineObscureAmbiguousMemories Dreams Reflections Book:The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious Source: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
“We live in a world defined by its boundaries: You cannot travel faster than the speed of light. You must and will die. You cannot escape these boundaries. But the miracle and hope of human consciousness is that we can still conceive of boundlessness.” WorldHumansStillsLightDiesConsciousnessMiracleSpeedBoundariesDefinedFasterHuman ConsciousnessSpeed Of Light Book:This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl Source: This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl
“[Children are] like talking animals. Their consciousness is so different from ours that they constitute a different species. They don't have to be particularly interesting children; just the fact that they are children is sufficient. They don't know what anything is, so they have to make it up. No matter how dull they are, they still have to figure things out for themselves.” KnowsChildrenStillsDifferentMatterFactsAnimalInterestingConsciousnessTalkingFiguresSpeciesSufficientDull Author:Fran Lebowitz
“The American psychologist Julian Jaynes, in a controversial study on the origin of consciousness, argued that the bicameral mind - in which one of the hemispheres becomes specialized in silent reading - is a late development in humankind's evolution, and that the process by which this function develops is still changing.” MindStillsReadingProcessConsciousnessStudyDevelopmentEvolutionLateFunctionSilentHumankindControversialPsychologistHemisphere Author:Alberto Manguel