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But can one not conceive of a presence, and of a presence to itself of the subject before speech or signs, a presence to itself of the subject in a silent and intuitive consciousness? Such a question therefore presupposes that, prior to the sign, and outside it, excluding any trace and any différance, something like consciousness is possible.

But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself.

But one wants the idea of Death, you know, as something large and unknowable, something that allows a person to stretch himself out. Especially one wants it if one is tired. Or perhaps what one wants is simply a release from sensation, from all consciousness for ever.

But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.

But there's a shift happening in humanity, a shift in consciousness, happening now because it has to happen now.

By fully tuning in to the now moment in your life, you will discover that you always have enough to enjoy every moment of your life. The only reason you have not been happy every instant is that you have been dominating your consciousness with thoughts about something you don't have- or trying to hold on to something that you do have but which is no longer appropriate in the present flow of your life.

By penetrating to the core of our own being, we can make contact with the consciousness at the center of the universe.

By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness.

Change of state is not the point; recognizing the Changeless is the point, recognizing primordial Emptiness is the point, and if you are breathing and vaguely awake, that state of consciousness will do just fine.

Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

Choose your intention carefully and then practice holding your consciousness to it, so it becomes the guiding light in your life.

Compassion is one of the highest states of consciousness that you can choose to assist you in times of enormous pain.

Conflict exists strictly as an opportunity to raise our consciousness.

Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.

Consciousness is a disease.

Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.

Consciousness is nature's nightmare.

Consciousness is nothing but awareness the composite of all the thing we pay attention to.

Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death.

Consciousness of exclusion through naming is acute. Identities seem contradictory, partial, and strategic.

Consciousness of our strength increases it.

Consciousness conceives, governs, constructs, and becomes the activity of the body.

Consciousness, fully awake to itself, is the Light of God.

Consciousness in the individual is that area where the totality of life is located.

Consciousness is always open to many possibilities because it involves play. It is always an adventure.

Consciousness is an illusion constructed by the memes.

Consciousness is a sea ringed with visions.

Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean.

Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.

Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential. The impulse to evolve is thus inherent in the very nature of life.

Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience, but there is nothing that is harder to explain.

Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking.

Consciousness: That annoying time between naps

...consciousness can keep only a few images in full clarity at one time, and even this clarity fluctuates.

Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses.

Consciousness is, among other things, a spontaneous exercise in creativity.

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

Consciousness is not in the body; the body is in consciousness. And you are that consciousness.

Consciousness is not the ineluctable starting point for self-understanding because there is a difference between being conscious and understanding oneself as a conscious being. The difference is between being in a certain state and knowing oneself to be in a certain state.

Consciousness is the grave of things, the place where they cease to exist, beyond which they end. And when they have ended, it seems that they no longer have any essential existence except in the visions in me.

Consciousness is the smallest player in the operations of the brain.

Consciousness, not matter, is the ground of all existence.

Control over consciousness cannot be institutionaliz ed. As soon as it becomes part of a set of social rules and norms, it ceases to be effective in the way it was originally intended to be.

[Courage] arises in a great measure from the consciousness of strength . . .

Craving security is the cause of insecurity. Freedom is knowing that the only point of arrival is now.

Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions.

Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation.

Christ, Buddha, and Krishna are but waves in the Ocean of Infinite Consciousness that I am!

Consciousness equals energy = love = awareness = light = wisdom = beauty = truth = purity. It's all the same trip.This is quotes copyright © By Pumpkin Limited

Consciousness is cerebral celebrity--nothing more and nothing less. Those contents are conscious that persevere, that monopolize resources long enough to achieve certain typical and "symptomatic" effects--on memory, on the control of behavior and so forth.