Conscious Quotes - Page 6

• Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.

  Jean Toomer

  Might, Poetic, Poet

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• Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.

  John Philip Sousa

  Believe, Inspiration, Source

  John Philip Sousa (2010). “Six marches”, p.46, A-R Editions, Inc.

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• Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.

  Mary McCarthy

  Men, Literature, Apes

  Mary McCarthy (2017). “Mary McCarthy: Novels 1963-1979”, p.414, Library of America

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• Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human

  Edward Bond

  Animal, Literature, Humans

  Edward Bond (1998). “Bond Plays: 6: The War Plays; Choruses from After the Assassinations”, Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

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• It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

  Arthur Erickson

  Self, Creative, Mystery

  Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.

  Augustus

  Lying, Mind, Roles

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• There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.

  Tori Amos

  Creativity, Creative, Trying

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• To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

  James A. Baldwin

  Country, African American, Literature

  "A race riot forever changed my city. Hollywood only told half the story" by Bankole Thompson, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2017.

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

  Amit Goswami

  Spiritual, Ideas, Consciousness

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• This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole... Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon mother earth, with the certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Life, Mother, Self

  "My View of the World". Book by Erwin Schrodinger, 1961.

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• The child is born with a Self but not with an ego. The child develops the ego. As he becomes more and more social and related, ego develops. This ego is just on your periphery where you are related with others - just on the boundary of your being. So ego is the periphery of your being, and Self is the center. The child is born with a Self, but unaware. He is a Self, but he is not conscious of the Self.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Self, Ego

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• Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and exalts it to the original of the One, the Primordial Man. In this way our existence as separate beings, our former ego nature, is abolished, the circle of consciousness is widened, and because the paradoxes have been made conscious, the sources of conflict are dried up.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Reflection, Circles

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The Collected Works”

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• Real happiness comes from having an unassailable connection to the deep state of unbounded awareness at our core. This state of being is our own inner joy that expresses the exuberance and wonder of being alive at this moment; it is our own self-luminous essence made conscious of itself.

  Deepak Chopra

  Real, Self, Essence

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• We automatically give to each person we meet, but we choose what we give. Our words, our actions, must consciously set the stage for the life we wish to lead.

  Marlo Morgan

  Life, Giving, Wish

  Marlo Morgan (1991). “Mutant message down under”, Bookpeople

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• Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Inspirational, Karma, Spiritual

  Sakyong Mipham (2005). “Ruling Your World: Ancient Strategies For Modern Life”, p.52, Harmony

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• For far too many, pregnancy and birth is still something that happens to them rather than something they set out consciously and joyfully to do themselves

  Sheila Kitzinger

  Pregnancy, Birth, Joyful

  Sheila Kitzinger (1990). “The Experience of Childbirth”, Viking Press

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• No person among us desires any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation.

  Joseph Brant

  Leadership, Justice, Brave

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• Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined sentiments. The basic ideas and beliefs seem more satisfactory when they are not made fully explicit, when they merely lurk rather obscurely in the background, coloring the rhetoric and adding a certain emotive glow.

  James Burnham

  Emotional, Glowing, Color

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• You cannot help another who will not help him or herself. In the end, all souls must walk their path - and the reason they are walking a particular path may not be clear to us... or even to them at the level of ordinary human consciousness. Do what you can to help others, of course. Show love and caring whenever and wherever you can. But do not get caught up in someone else's "story" to the point where you start writing it.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Love, Writing, Caring

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Oct 03, 2014

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• To me it is no mystery that we can only photograph effectively what we are truly interested in or-maybe more importantly-are grappling with. Often unconsciously. Otherwise the photographs are merely about an idea or a concept-that stuff eventually falls flat for me-there must be something more, some emotional hook for it to really work for me.

  Todd Hido

  Photography, Fall, Emotional

  "A conversation with Todd Hido". Interview with Joerg Colberg, jmcolberg.com. June 18, 2007.

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• It's when I am fully conscious that I ask questions.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Philosophical, Asks

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• Simple practices like conscious breathing and smiling are very important. They can change our civilization.

  Nhat Hanh

  Mom, Simple, Practice

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.35, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• We must begin to make what I call "conscious choices," and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my songs.

  John Denver

  Inspirational, Song, Writing

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• The ultimate gift of conscious life is a sense of the mystery that encompasses it.

  Lewis Mumford

  Mystery, Consciousness, Life Is

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