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The aim of Zen training is to attain the state of consciousness which occurs when the individual ego is emptied of itself and becomes identified with the infinite reality of all things.

The animals certainly like to be close to humans, especially as humans go through the shift in consciousness.

The animal lacks both anxiety and hope because its consciousness is restricted to what is clearly evident and thus to the present moment: the animal is the present incarnate.

The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. ... They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.

The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to consciousness.

The Behaviorist cannot find consciousness in the test-tube of his science.

The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.

The best thing about religion is that it's so transparently absurd it can't possibly last forever. I'm convinced it will only take a small shift in human consciousness for it to be laughed off the planet, and I hope I'm still around when that happens.

The Bosnian Genocide was something that triggered my consciousness and led to an awakening politically for me.

The capacity to recognize significant factors in a given situation is limited by the context that arises from the level of consciousness of the observer.

The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time.

The centermost processes of the brain with which consciousness is presumably associated are simply not understood. They are so far beyond our comprehension that no one I know of has been able to imagine their nature.

The censorship of language is the censorship of consciousness.

The challenge for me is still to do something that hasn't been beaten into the movie going consciousness. Otherwise what am I in it for?

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

The coming to consciousness is not a discovery of some new thing; it is a long and painful return to that which has always been.

The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes.

...the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

The deadliest sin were the consciousness of no sin

The consciousness of having discharged that duty which we owe to our country is superior to all other considerations.

The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.

The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.

The design is done when the problem goes away.

The emergence of consciousness, like the unfolding of a leaf, relies upon restraint.

The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.

The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.

The effect on human consciousness of the experience of the Presence of God is subjectively transformative and identical throughout human history. It leaves a timeless mark that is verifiable as a calibration of a recorded level of conciousness.

The essence of God is consciousness. Consciousness can be used for either violence or peace; the choice is ours. When it is expanded, human consciousness chooses non-violence, since that is compatible with love.

The etiquette is higher consciousness, sensitivity, gentleness, gracefulness, intensity, power, and knowledge.

The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant. Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.

The experience of yoga is unspeakable. It's the experience of samadhi. It's the experience of connectedness, of oneness, boundlessness, merging with God consciousness... even if it's just for an instant.

The divine therapy helps us integrate our animal nature with the new possibilities of rational consciousness.

The evolutionary impulse is towards disidentification from thinking and the arising of awareness or presence, but the gravitational pull of the old consciousness, or rather unconsciousness, is still quite heavy. It's been around for thousands of years.

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

The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.

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

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

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 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 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 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.