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A related aspect of intelligent consciousness is delay of gratification: the wisdom to accurately predict whether delay rather than acting on impulse will yield greater benefit.

A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in the myth. And since myth is a projection of the depth wisdom of the psyche, by participating in a ritual, participating in the myth, you are being, as it were, put in accord with that wisdom, which is the wisdom that is inherent within you anyhow. Your consciousness is being re-minded of the wisdom of your own life.

Art always helps religion; it became an inseparable phenomenon when human beings gained consciousness.

Art is an indecent exposure of the consciousness.

Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness

Art is not consciousness per se, but rather its antidote- evolved from within consciousness itself.

Art is the consciousness of currency.

Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.

Art-making is just another part of the consciousness industry.

As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.

As always, the illusion of self-transcendence is far more facile and available than self-transcendence itself: in the vast majority of cases what human consciousness opens up to is merely a more encompassing form of finitude (another captivating illusion or delusion).

As an actress, I think there is always a political consciousness there.

As Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin knew, the future of humankind is God-consciousness.

As each human being is an integral part of the collective human consciousness, they affect the world much more deeply than is visible on the surface of their lives.

A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.

As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.

A state of consciousness is characteristically very transitory; an idea that is conscious now is no longer so a moment later, although it can become so again under certain conditions that are easily brought about.

As the brain-changes are continuous, so do all these consciousnesses melt into each other like dissolving views. Properly they are but one protracted consciousness, one unbroken stream.

As we grow in higher consciousness, we discover that it is more important to be the right person then to find the right person.

As the meditation evolves, you attention passes into higher realms of consciousness.

As the watcher of the screen, you are perfect. The movie that is playing on the screen might be horrendous, but you are not the movie. You are what is watching the movie.

Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws.

Awareness is an inner quality of consciousness; it has nothing to do with closed or open eyes.

At the core of everything that is hurtful to humanity is a lack of consciousness.

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.

Awareness is wakefulness. Wakefulness is consciousness. Consciousness is limitless awareness.

Awareness of the inner body is consciousness remembering its origin and returning to the Source.

Awareness is conscious connection with universal intelligence. Another word for it is Presence: consciousness without thought.

A witnessing consciousness lives in life but with tremendous non-attachment, with great non-possessiveness; it possesses nothing. It lives totally, it lives passionately, but still knowing that I don't possess anything.

A writer has a use for his experiences that most civilians simply don't; he or she discerns material in situations that others simply live through. Perhaps there are some who disapprove of this, but without this double consciousness, literature would not get made at all.

A writer's self-consciousness, for which he is much scorned, is really a mode of interestedness, that inevitably turns outward.

A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it.

Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness.

Balance is the natural state of life, because the basic characteristic of the fundamental element of life, pure consciousness, is complete balance.

Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness.

Because someone is a lama or is part of a monastic order or claims to be part of a succession, doesn't really mean they know anything. Always examine the individual's consciousness, their ability to transmit light.

Because our consciousness is tied to the physical manifestation of reality, we are tied to the belief in separation.

Be Consciousness (Itself)- Contemplate Consciousness (Itself)- Transcend Everything in Consciousness (Itself).

Before perception, before a preceiver, existence was - is. This is the consciousness that we refer to as nirvana, God, eternity.

Being aware of awareness itself only consciousness can get you there to the truth of yourself the immortal inner being.

Being a physicist, not a philosopher, I have devised an entirely new theory of consciousness, allowing one to numerically calculate the level of consciounsess of humans and even animals.

Beyond learning and unlearning is awareness, and beyond awareness is consciousness, and beyond consciousness is immortality, and beyond immortality is dharma and beyond dharma is nirvana.

"Bhagavad Gita" is an examination of consciousness and the desire of human beings and the quest that we have as human beings to understand ourselves; that it was a map, you might say, for exploring the territory that leads us to find out things about ourselves.

Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity and he will feel free.

Blaming none, disrespecting nothing is the doorway to Unity Consciousness.

Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.

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