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The flower of #‎ consciousness needs the mud out of which it grows.

The focus of all life is its economy, the mode through which every living creature produces its material existence. I know no other criterion for the evaluation of social life except that of social economy. In society, just like anywhere else, the mode of production is the focus around which revolve all the modes of life: in the historical life of conscious beings, it is also the focus of all modes of consciousness.

The force fields of nature are force fields of consciousness. They are force fields of knowledge.

The game is not set. There are so many layers that it is being perceived on. As your own consciousness becomes more refined, the game changes.

The golden rule of drums is hands clapping and feet tapping, and when you are in and out of consciousness, you can't do that to best of your ability.

The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness ; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience .

The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.

The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor.

The happy consciousness is shaky enough a thin surface over fear, frustration, and disgust.

The hardest thing in making a movie is to keep in the front of your consciousness your original response to the material. Because that's going to be the thing that will make the movie. And the loss of that will break the movie.

The highest octave kundalini is the golden light which occurs in the supraconscious; it is the supraconscious. It's what they call Sat Chit Ananda - existence, consciousness, bliss ... full consciousness.

The history of human consciousness is marked by the battle between the old awareness, the ways of fear, and the new awareness, the ways of love.

The history of the women's movement in America follows a consciousness-amnesia cycle.

The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from psychology at large and, specifically, from the descriptive psychology of the phenomena of consciousness.

The idea that excites me the most concerns the two greatest puzzles in science: the origin of the universe, and the origin of consciousness. The origin of the universe is what I do for a living, working on string theory. But I am also fascinated by consciousness.

The idea that consciousness is the ground of being is the basis of all spiritual traditions.

The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.

The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness.. an ability that we as human beings have. We are the producers of our own thinking.

The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness.

The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method. You could ignore a subject; no subject is all-inclusive. But a method can plausibly be applied to anything within the field of consciousness.

The important thing is how much consciousness you add to the whole of human existence, for that is how eternity expresses itself.

The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive.

The introduction of LSD and psychedelics into the culture produced a transformation of the entire culture, the consciousness of the culture.

The journey of consciousness, of mysticism, is to come to know yourself and your own motivations.

The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle.

[T]he laws of quantum mechanics itself cannot be formulated ... without recourse to the concept of consciousness.

The longing for light is the longing for consciousness.

The main obstacle to our development is our lack of knowledge about the nature of consciousness itself.

The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals.

The Milky Way swooped diagonally across the heavens, reminding me of my utter insignificance, and at the same time my complete interconnection with everything. I was just a tiny speck of consciousness, and yet I was consciousness itself.

The mastery of any subject requires that one identify himself with the particular state of consciousness appropriate to that subject.

The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.

The mission of the theatre, after all, is to change, to raise the consciousness of people to their human possibilities.

The miracle and hope of human consciousness is that we can still conceive of boundlessness.

The moment one is on the side of life; peace and security drop out of consciousness. The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment.

The only thing that is fundamental (real) is consciousness itself; all else is virtual- i.e., a result of an exchange of information within consciousness.

The more we are happy in Krishna Consciousness, the more we become purified.

The neuroscience of consciousness is not going to stop in its tracks because some philosophers guesses that project cannot be productive.

The only real service we can render to that which we perceive and interpret in phenomenal existence as 'others' is by awakening to universal consciousness ourselves.

The only self-consciousness in the film [Dream of Life] is anyone's natural shyness.

The operation of consciousness has created the 'apparition' called 'me'.

The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable.

The more we invest in our spirituality, the more consistently we can elevate our consciousness and connect to the spiritual source of everything good.

The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first.

The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness.

The non-spatial nature of consciousness makes it possible for any apparently unconscious entity to be conscious, and vice versa.