Conscious Quotes - Page 5

• The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Inspiring, Fear

  Twitter post from Dec 26, 2014

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• Conscious business.. business that is conscious of inner and outer worlds.. would therefore be business that takes into account body, mind, and spirit in self, culture, and nature. Put differently, conscious business would be mindful of the way that the spectrum of consciousness operates in the Big Three worlds of self and culture and nature.

  Ken Wilber

  God, Business, Self

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• If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Ambiguity, Refuge, Ifs

  The New York Tribune, October 14, 1963.

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• As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  School, Mean, Clothes

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• To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.

  Ken Burns

  Mean, Artist, Choices

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• I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one.

  Sally Kirkland

  Decision, Engagement, Actresses

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• The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology.

  Edward Thorndike

  Character, Animal, Psychology

  Edward Thorndike (2017). “Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies”, p.26, Routledge

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• Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Independent, Purpose, Unconscious

  William Irwin Thompson (1987). “Gaia, a Way of Knowing: Political Implications of the New Biology”, Inner Traditions International

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• It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.

  Don Cheadle

  People, Theatre, Want

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  Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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• Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

  Voltaire

  Yoga, Thinking, Meditation Practice

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  A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Beauty, Spiritual

  Letter of 1950, as quoted in "The New York Times", March 29, 1972.

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• Wisdom, character, and consciousness conquer everything.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Character

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• Peace is a conscious choice.

  John Denver

  Peace, Choices, Environmentalism

  Thomas F. Crum, John Denver (1988). “The magic of conflict: turning a life of work into a work of art”, Touchstone Books

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• Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

  William Ralph Inge

  Connections, Phases, Consciousness

  William Ralph Inge (1932). “More Lay Thoughts of a Dean”

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• Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Wise, Dream

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

  Samuel Butler

  Spring, Action, Consciousness

  Samuel Butler (2016). “The Way of All Flesh”, p.25, Samuel Butler

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• Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Art Is, Unconscious

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• Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.

  Henry Miller

  Power, Evil, Analysis

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.191, New Directions Publishing

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• Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Writing, Creation

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “In good faith”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Doe, Talent, Abundance

  Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1973). “The First Circle”

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• Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

  Vernon Howard

  Freedom

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• The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Literature, Forget, Consciousness

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.51, Cambridge University Press

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• While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Leica, Photographer

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• To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Mean, Past, Choices

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