#conscious

Here's a news flash: No soldier gives his life. That's not the way it works. Most soldiers who make a conscious decision to place themselves in harm's way do it to protect their buddies. They do it because of the bonds of friendship - and it goes so much deeper than friendship. ↗

— Eric Massa

#bonds #buddies #conscious #conscious decision #decision

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination. ↗

— Mencius

#delight #greater #self-examination #sincerity #than

Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of our nerves to consciousness, excited by an external cause. ↗

— Johannes P. Muller

#cause #consciousness #excited #external #nerves

Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious. ↗

— Charles Munch

#art #define #domain #expresses #far

I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#life #my life #self-conscious #trying

We must each achieve greater individual consciousness and self-knowledge, and project mindful kindness toward everything and everyone. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#care #consciousness #individualism #kindness #love

Live simply. Deepest joy is like a flower....beautiful in essence. ↗

— Tony Samara

#consciousness #enlightenment #evolution #foundation #freedom

After modernism, things changed. Indeed, modernism sometimes seems to me like an equivalent of the Fall. Remember, the first thing Adam and Eve did when they ate the fruit was to discover that they had no clothes on. They were embarrassed. Embarrassment was the first consequence of the Fall. And embarrassment was the first literary consequence of this modernist discovery of the surface. "Am I telling a story? Oh my God, this is terrible. I must stop telling a story and focus on the minute gradations of consciousness as they filter through somebody's... ↗

— Philip Pullman

#change

We have the greatest power through love that can be known. It overcomes everything with its fierce and steady truth, if you can continue to stand in it. You can call love to you, directly from the original stream of consciousness, anytime you feel weak or fearful, and you will be given strength and courage. You can call love to you, directly from the original stream of consciousness, anytime you feel sad or alone, and you will feel embraced and comforted. Call love to you if you feel vulnerable. Feel its purity come to you from the universe and flow round you like a miraculous mother cradling its innocent child. Breathe love in. Say to yourself as you breathe deeply “I love. I am loved.” Say it over and over as you breathe it into yourself and out to the universe, until you really feel and believe that you ARE LOVE. Feel love pour into your lungs as you breathe. Feel it circulate round your body to fill every organ, every limb, and every cell. Vibrate with its radiance, and share it. ↗

— Jay Woodman

#breathe #cell #circulate #comforted #courage

Needing to express what it’s like here.... / Trying to digest the incoming stream .... / And dream it all over again. ↗

— Jay Woodman

#dream #express #stream #dreams