#consciousness

Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being. ↗

— Abdolkarim Soroush

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And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

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In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas. ↗

— John Millington Synge

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Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

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Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

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The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them. ↗

— Rudolf Virchow

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The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect. ↗

— Luciano Berio

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Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness. ↗

— Helen Hayes

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If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music. ↗

— John Abercrombie

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