Conscious Quotes - Page 13

• The true shaman, the true naturalist, works to reconnect conscious human life with Nature and Spirit through totems and ritual.

  Ted Andrews

  Totems, Spirit, Human Life

  Ted Andrews (2010). “Animal Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great and Small”, p.13, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the conscious mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal-intellect suggests one course, and our hearts, or intuition, another.

  Robert E. Ornstein

  Passion, Heart, Intuition

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• I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition.

  Emanuel Celler

  Ambition, Sight, Smell

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• Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself.

  Greg Iles

  Men, Becoming, Universe

  Greg Iles (2004). “The Footprints of God”, p.292, Simon and Schuster

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• I made a conscious effort to make a record that would affect people in a good way rather than the last one, which affected people in a bad way.

  Daniel Johns

  People, Effort, Records

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• I'm very self-conscious having my picture taken, so I clown around. My driver's license photo looks like a blonde Elvis.

  Emily Procter

  Taken, Self, Blonde

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• What I’m trying to show is that the main event today is not seen by those of us that are living it… So it’s not the effect of [technology], it is that everything exists with-in [its milieu]. It's not that we use technology, we live technology. Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Technology, Air, Trying

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• Dont you think dreams and the Internet are similar? They are both areas where the repressed conscious mind vents.

  Yasutaka Tsutsui

  Dream, Thinking, Mind

  FaceBook post by Yasutaka Tsutsui from Dec 28, 2016

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• Who is giving the orders to ants? No one. They are self-organizing. Each of our immune systems get smarter over the years as its biochemical parts share information, and it responds with individualized defenses, but it isn't conscious and it has no memory. The host of that party didn't decree that everyone would gather in the kitchen, but it happened anyway. Emergence means we sometimes act in concert for better or worse.

  Steven Johnson

  Memories, Party, Mean

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• Rich Christiansen is one of the most insightful, practical and cost-conscious entrepreneurs in the world today. Listen to Rich. He won't steer you wrong.

  Roy H. Williams

  Entrepreneur, Insightful, Cost

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• I was just very conscious that I could either bore people by having the music be similar for too long, or I could just wear them out and bore them in a different way by having it changing too much every minute or two minutes. So, there was that kind of balance to get right.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Two, Long, People

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• Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to the good of the artist's side; and the converse of this proposition is likewise true. But it is possible to train both sides of the character to work in harmony, and the first step in that education is to consider that you must teach yourself not as though you were one person, but two.

  Dorothea Brande

  Character, Artist, Two

  Dorothea Brande (2016). “Becoming a Writer”, p.15, Lulu.com

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• A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not conscious of his envy, malice, pettiness and dishonesty. There is a wall of words between his consciousness and his real self.

  Eric Hoffer

  Wall, Real, Self

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• As long as you are conscious of yourself, you can never concentrate on anything.

  Walpola Rahula

  Long

  Walpola Rahula (2007). “What the Buddha Taught: Revised and Expanded Edition with Texts from Suttas and Dhammapada”, p.100, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I will also tell you a secret. We have to will one another: this is the beginning of conscious love.

  Maurice Nicoll

  Secret

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• What is difficult to understand is that without conscious effort, nothing is possible. Conscious effort is related to higher nature. My lower nature alone cannot lead me to consciousness. It is blind. But when I wake up and I feel that I belong to a higher world, this is only part of conscious effort. I become truly conscious only when I open to all my possibilities, higher and lower. There is value only in conscious effort.

  Jeanne de Salzmann

  Effort, World, Wake Up

  "The Reality of Being: The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff".

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• To the man who is truly ethical all life is sacred, including that which from the human point of view seems lower in the scale. He makes distinctions only as each case comes before him, and under the pressure of necessity, as, for example, when it falls to him to decide which of two lives he must sacrifice in order to preserve the other. But all through this series of decisions he is conscious of acting on subjective grounds and arbitrarily, and knows that he bears the responsibility for the life which is sacrificed.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Fall, Responsibility, Sacrifice

  Albert Schweitzer, Charles Rhind Joy (1947). “Albert Schweitzer: An Anthology”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• There are things in the human mind that are not meant to be seen or touched, things seldom even acknowledged by our conscious selves. Fantasies, impulses, rages, hatreds, primitive instincts. They're buried deep, usually, and that's where they belong.

  Kay Hooper

  Self, Hatred, Mind

  Kay Hooper (2010). “Stealing Shadows: A Bishop/Special Crimes Unit Novel”, p.31, Bantam

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• The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I felt that if I wanted to commune with the public, I should best do so through the language of image. It's a conscious embrace of a contradiction.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Order, Live In The Moment, Language

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The individual within the collective is never, or hardly ever, conscious of the prevailing thought style, which almost always exerts an absolutely compulsive force upon his thinking and with which it is not possible to be at variance.

  Ludwik Fleck

  Thinking, Style, Collaboration

  Ludwik Fleck (2012). “Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact”, p.41, University of Chicago Press

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• Education, in its highest sense, is conscious training of mind or body to act unconsciously. It is conscious formation of mental habits, not mere acquisition of information.

  William George Jordan

  Education, Training, Mind

  William George Jordan (2007). “The Majesty of Calmness”, p.36, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• The degree of consciousness corresponds to the degree of density or the speed of vibrations. The denser the matter, the less conscious it is.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Degrees, Density, Matter

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• I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.

  Richard Russo

  Writing, Self, Views

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• There is only one basic desire that motivates the spiritual seeker-to make the experience of God, of divine bliss and joy, the center of the life experience. We are spiritual beings living in a material universe, and as such, our first priority is to nurture that eternal part of us. The eleventh step of AA's twelve-step program states it beautifully: "Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood him, praying only for knowledge of his will for us and the power to carry that out."

  Douglas Bloch

  God, Spiritual, Prayer

  Douglas Bloch (2015). “A Treasury of Spiritual Quotations, Poems and Prayers: Words of Love and Wisdom”, p.27, BookBaby

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• Intention is the core of all conscious life. Conscious intention colors and moves everything.

  Hsing Yun

  Moving, Color, Intention

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