Consciousness Quotes - Page 27

• People enter states of consciousness where they think they've become enlightened. The best thing to do, if you've gone through one of those phases, is to be sensible, laugh at yourself for how foolish you were.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Thinking

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• Any individual is capable of realizing the truth at any time. No tradition is necessary, no chain, no lineage. Once you have realized the truth, once you have become consciousness itself, then you go beyond all such distinctions.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Lineage

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• Consciousness, like a complex system of software, has thousands of levels of nested, self-accessing subroutines

  Frederick Lenz

  Science, Self, Levels

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• It is my belief that one of the most exciting things about the World Wide Web is that they allow minds, as Spock might say, to meld. The transfer of consciousness through a variety of mediums is nothing new.

  Frederick Lenz

  Science, Mind, World

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• To have the detached eye of the occultist, to look outward, to not be so self-reflective and to learn to step through the various viewpoints of consciousness - that we call occultism - leads to freedom.

  Frederick Lenz

  Eye, Self, Looks

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• Chaos is everywhere and chaos is wonderful. That's all there really is. There is no today. There is no tomorrow. There is only eternity, perfection, consciousness, power, and light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Perfection, Today

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• We're using gradients of light as an auric measurement, a quantified auric measurement of the ascension of consciousness from the relatively sensorial, material perceptions of existence to the more refined spiritual perceptions of existence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Light, Perception

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• To take charge of destiny means to play a very convoluted chess game on multiple levels of consciousness and existence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Destiny, Games

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• We invent mind-space inside our own heads as well as the heads of others ... we assume these 'spaces' without question. They are a part of what it is to be conscious. Moreover, things that in the physical-behavioural world that do not have a spatial quality are made to have such in consciousness. Otherwise we cannot be conscious of them.

  Julian Jaynes

  Space, Mind, Quality

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• Something about the topic of consciousness makes people, like the White Queen in Through The Looking Glass, believe six impossible things before breakfast.

  Steven Pinker

  Queens, Believe, Impossible Things

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.133, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Read books that expand you, that are bright. See films, plays, art forms that elevate your consciousness, that bring you into a sense of how beautiful this world is, how beautiful other worlds are, how beautiful nirvana, the transcendental is.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Art, Book

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• Those who practice lower sorcery hurt themselves the most because they interact with negative thoughts and apply power to them; they devastate their own consciousness and their own lives.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hurt, Buddhism, Practice

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• The arguments for immortality, weak when you take them one by one, are no more cogent when you take them together... For my part, I cannot see how consciousness can persist when its physical basis has been destroyed, and I am too sure of the interconnection of my body and my mind to think that any survival of my my consciousness apart from my body would be in any sense a survival of myself.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Thinking, Survival, Mind

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• Even when I'm writing in character I'm normally still writing about things I know or things that have happened to me or using that character to start an exploration of my own consciousness. Really though, any character that you can examine is just an examination of a part of your own consciousness.

  Karen Walker

  Writing, Character, Examination

  "The AU Interview: Monika and Karen Walker of The New Tarot (New York) talk about their new single 'On baby'". www.theaureview.com. February 10, 2015.

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• I really don't want to produce artwork that does not have meaning beyond simple decorative values. I want to use public space to create a public voice, and a public consciousness about the presence of people who are, in fact, the majority of the population but who are not represented in any visual way. By telling their stories we are giving voice to the voiceless and visualizing the whole of the American story.

  Judy Baca

  Simple, Voice, Space

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• Forgiveness is like the martial arts of consciousness.
  In Aikido and, other martial arts, we sidestep our attackers force rather than resisting it.
  The energy of the attack then boomerangs back in the direction of the attacker.
  Our power lies in remaining nonreactive. Forgiveness works in the same way.
  When we attack back, and defense is a form of attack, we initiate a war that no one can win.

  Marianne Williamson

  Art, War, Lying

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• Learn to think in positive affirmations. Affirmations are any statements you make. Too often we think in negative affirmations. Negative affirmations only create more of what you say you don't want. Saying, “I hate my job,” will get you nowhere. Declaring, “I now accept a wonderful new job,” will open the channels in your consciousness to create that.

  Louise Hay

  Jobs, Hate, Thinking

  Louise L. Hay (1999). “You Can Heal Your Life Gift”, p.127, Hay House, Inc

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• When you dream, all the scenery, characters, events, perils, and outcomes are built from your own consciousness, the darks and oppressions as well as the delights. Same with the world awake, though it takes you longer to build it.

  Richard Bach

  Dream, Character, Events

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• According to the true Indian view, our consciousness of the world, merely as the sum total of things that exist, and as governed by laws, is imperfect. But it is perfect when our consciousness realizes all things as spiritually one with it, and therefore capable of giving us joy. For us the highest purpose of this world is not merely living in it, knowing it and making use of it, but realizing our own selves in it through expansion of sympathy; not alienating ourselves from it and dominating it, but comprehending and uniting it with ourselves in perfect union.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Self, Views, Law

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• Deep down in your heart know that all is well. Understand that the Universe is your friend and can never hurt you. It is the substratum of all existence which is love! When you develop a loving consciousness there can be no problems.
  Love takes care of everything. Love is the same as absolute awareness, pure intelligence, or the power of God. When you have enough love inside, there are truly no problems. Problems only arise when you believe you are separate and lacking love.

  Robert Adams

  Hurt, Believe, Heart

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• The spiritual consciousness is never deceived

  Billy Meier

  Spiritual, Deceived

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• Disease generally begins that equality which death completes; the distinctions which set one man so much above another are very little perceived in the gloom of a sick chamber, where it will be vain to expect entertainment from the gay, or instruction from the wise; where all human glory is obliterated, the wit is clouded, the reasoner perplexed, and the hero subdued; where the highest and brightest of mortal beings finds nothing left him but the consciousness of innocence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Hero, Gay

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.290

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• Blindsight is excellent. It's state-of-the-art science fiction: smart, dark and it grabs you by the throat from page one. Like a C J Cherryh book it makes you feel the danger of the hostile environment (or lack of one) out there. And it plays with some fascinating possibilities in human development, and some disconcerting ideas about human consciousness. What else can I say? Thanks for giving me the privilege of reading this.

  Neal Asher

  Art, Book, Reading

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• Did you hear the one about the woman who is attacked on the street by a gorilla, beaten senseless, raped repeatedly, and left to die? When she finally regains consciousness and tries to speak, her doctor leans over to hear her sigh contently and to feebly ask, 'Where is that marvelous ape?'

  John McCain

  Doctors, Trying, Gorillas

  "McCain Ape Rape Joke Recalled By Sources" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2008.

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• BLINDSIGHT is fearless: a magnificent, darkly gleaming jewel of a book that hurdles the contradictions inherent in biochemistry, consciousness, and human hearts without breaking stride.

  Elizabeth Bear

  Book, Heart, Jewels

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