Conscious Quotes - Page 17

• I get invited to a lot more glamorous parties since Ive been in Downton Abbey, which has made me much more fashion conscious.

  Lesley Nicol

  Fashion, Party, Made

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• Men ought to become more conscious of their bodies as objects of delight.

  Germaine Greer

  Men, Delight, Body

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• Don't make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you're not even conscious you're making.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Decision

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• If a union is to take place between opposites like spirit and matter, conscious and unconscious, bright and dark, and so on, it will happen in a third thing, which represents not a compromise but something new.

  Carl Jung

  Dark, Opposites, Unions

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler (1970). “Mysterium coniunctionis”

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• Nervousness is caused by wanting two opposing things at the same time, one consciously and the other subconsciously. The battle is resolved when you make the subconscious desire conscious. On the other hand, if you know what you are, there will be no conflicts. You can do that through seeking. It is not necessary to understand the negative. It is far better to be positive. Be Your Self.

  Lester Levenson

  Self, Hands, Two

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• When you completely accept this moment, when you no longer argue with what is, the compulsion to think lessens and is replaced by an alert stillness. You are fully conscious, yet the mind is not labeling this moment in any way... It is a shift from identification with form --the thought or the emotion-- to being and recognizing yourself as that which has no form -- spacious awareness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Mind, Way

  "The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment". Book by Eckhart Tolle, 1997.

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• I know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to us to live but once, let us so live we will not regret years of useless virtue, and inertia, and timidity, and ignorance, and in our last moments we can say: 'All my life, all my conscious energies, have been dedicated to the most noble cause in the world, the liberation of the human mind and spirit - beginning with my own'.

  Maya Angelou

  Regret, Ignorance, Years

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• Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious of and a little bit gleeful of their villainy.

  John Rhys-Davies

  Fun, Littles, Tongue

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• God acts in history: that is, God provides ideas, methods, and experiences intended to bring comprehension to man, an understanding heart, a conscious life.

  Jacob Needleman

  Heart, Men, Ideas

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• Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.

  Horace

  Wall, Evil, Done

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• The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence.

  George Eliot

  Dog, Men, Differences

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.192, Wordsworth Editions

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• The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return.

  George Eliot

  Passion, Men, Vanity

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.129

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• Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Roots, Long

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• What I call innocence is the spirit's unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once a receptiveness and total concentration.

  Annie Dillard

  Innocence, Spirit, Moments

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.83, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.

  Marianne Moore

  Writing

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• age is nothing but death that is conscious.

  Ouida

  Age

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• Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Spiritual, Character, Men

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and Characteristic Men”, p.71

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• Two elements enter into successful and happy gatherings at table. The food, whether simple or elaborate, must be carefully prepared; willingly prepared; imaginatively prepared. And the guests - friends, family or strangers - must be conscious of their welcome.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Successful, Simple, Two

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• it is my conviction that the personality of the writer has nothing to do with the literate product of his mind. And publicity in this case embarrasses me because I am acutely conscious of how far short the book falls of the artistry I am struggling to achieve. It's like being caught half-dressed.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Struggle, Book, Fall

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• Unlearning is the choice, conscious or unconscious, of any real artist. And it is the true sign of maturity.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Real, Artist, Maturity

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• When we can play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Prayer, Children

  Twitter post from Nov 19, 2010

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• Golden volumes! richest treasures,
  Objects of delicious pleasures!
  You my eyes rejoicing please,
  You my hand in rapture seize!
  Brilliant wits and musing sages,
  Lights who beam'd through many ages!
  Left to your conscious leaves their story,
  And dared to trust you with their glory;
  And now their hope of fame achiev'd,
  Dear volumes! you have not deceived!

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Book, Eye, Light

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• I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed, Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God.

  James Russell Lowell

  Morning, Self, Perfect

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• The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having something that you believe in to say, and making the parts of speech vividly conscious of it.

  James Russell Lowell

  Lying, Believe, Writing

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.162

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• I do not know if Alice in Wonderland was an original story-I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it-but I do know that, since it came out, something like a dozen story-books have appeared, on identically the same pattern. The path I timidly explored believing myself to be 'the first that ever burst into that silent sea'-is now a beaten high-road: all the way-side flowers have long ago been trampled into the dust: and it would be courting disaster for me to attempt that style again.

  Lewis Carroll

  Believe, Flower, Book

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.208, Race Point Pub

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