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If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.

If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.

If you were in a perfected state of consciousness, you would only see perfection in all things.

If Zen has any preference it is for glass that is plain, has no color, and is "just glass.

I had vainly been seeking a description of consciousness within science; instead, what I and others have to look for is a description of science within consciousness. We must develop a science compatible with consciousness, our primary experience.

I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves… I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.

I have been accused of denying consciousness but I am not conscious of having done so.

I have a much easier time imagining how we would understand the big bang, even though we can't do it yet, than I can imagine understanding consciousness.

I have gone from “being” my experience to being infinite consciousness having the experience and observing the experience.

I have found that long durational art is really the key to changing consciousness. On such a deep level. Not just the performer, but the one looking at it.

Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.

I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.

Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.

Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.

I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.

I just try to bring a kind of consciousness to the work I'm doing. I'll worry about the next job when I have the next job. There are a lot worse things than being known for a certain kind of specificity. You'll get calls for that thing. And that's better than not getting any calls at all.

I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all projections of the universal principles of creation/destruction polarities of the same infinite consciousness that we call God.

I'm a recovering drug addict, so it's not a subject that I take lightly, but I do agree that the criminalization of narcotics is the deliberate inhibition of human consciousness.

In aesthetic consciousness we enter that painless state, prized by Epicurus as the state of the gods; for a moment we are delivered from the miserable pressure of the will. We celebrate the Sabbath from the penal servitude of willing; the wheel of Ixion stands still.

I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as human history.

I'm suddenly finding it hard to know the difference between nightmares and consciousness.

In a certain sense a writer is 'selected' by his subject - his subject being the consciousness of his own era.

In consciousness dwells the wondrous, with it man attains the realm beyond the material, and the Peyote tells us, where to find it.

In a sense, what's happening is that the unconscious mind is a luxury the human species cannot afford at this point in our dilemma, and so the unconscious mind is simply rising into consciousness by being hardwired into this global infrastructure.

Increasing consciousness = increasing complexity.

Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them.

Individual consciousness is just sickness.

In dream consciousness we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator.

In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender

I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.

In meditation...the power of God begins to reflect in the clear waters of your consciousness.

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.

In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.

In the crystal of the awakened consciousness, one facet is love.

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.

In the consciousness of the end is the limitation of the moment.

In the consciousness of the infinite, the conscious subject has for his object the infinity of his own nature.

Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you.

In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

In the consciousness of eternity, time is not, neither is space. In man's consciousness there appears so much mercy, so much love, that these have been called time and space.

In the face of death, especially violent death, things don't make sense anymore. So death is the dissolution of either physical form or psychological form. And when a form dissolves, always something shines through that had been obscured by the form. This is the formless One Life, the formless One Consciousness.

In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.

In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness.

In the realm of divine consciousness, you can see beyond beliefs, beyond knowing, and beyond not knowing.

in the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination.

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.

I often say that Bernhard, W.G. Sebald, and Javier Marías are my stylistic holy trinity, prose writers who amaze me with their notation of consciousness and voice.