#consciousness

We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful. ↗

— Simone Weil

#bits #bow #consciousness #even #heads

Nobody would take checks from Indians, nobody would give them any credit, and nobody would let them drink in the bars. There was a rudeness, a brusqueness, with which the Indians were treated constantly. At a very young age, that had entered my consciousness. ↗

— James Welch

#any #bars #checks #consciousness #constantly

Life is a state of consciousness. ↗

— Emmet Fox

#life #life is a #state

A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#avoid #big #book #cannot #consciousness

I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#conscience #consciousness #i #novel #poetic

If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#brain #conscious #consciousness #death #fragile

A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#consciousness #crisis #current #dominance #global

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#behavior #believe #consciousness #death #implications

Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#body #consciousness #death #demonstrates #independently

Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#consciousness #each #field #linear #manifest