#consciousness

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

#beings #consciousness #cry #face #feel

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

— Stanislav Grof

#conducive #consciousness #death #evolution #fear

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

#consciousness #gradually #into #listen #lot

She tries to maintain a nondescript exterior; she learns the sideways glance instead of looking at people directly. She speaks in practised, precise sentences so that she is not misunderstood. She chooses her words carefully, and if someone addresses her in Punjabi, she answers in Urdu, because an exchange in her mother tongue might be considered a promise of intimacy. She uses English for medical terms only, because she feels if she uses a word of English in her conversation she might be considered a bit forward. When she walks she walks with slightly hurried steps, as if she has an important but innocent appointment to keep. She avoids eye contact, she looks slightly over people’s heads as if looking out for somebody who might come into view at any moment. She doesn’t want anyone to think that she is alone and nobody is coming for her. She sidesteps even when she sees a boy half her age walking towards her, she walks around little puddles when she can easily leap over them; she thinks any act that involves stretching her legs might send the wrong signal. After all, this is not the kind of thing where you can leave your actions to subjective interpretations. She never eats in public. Putting something in your mouth is surely an invitation for someone to shove something horrible down your throat. If you show your hunger, you are obviously asking for something. ↗

— Mohammed Hanif

#self-consciousness #age

Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man. ↗

— Karl Pearson

#benevolence #consciousness #order #perception #reason

And it's a disquieting thought that not even the past is done with, even that continues to change, as if in reality there is only one time, for everything, one time for every purpose under heaven. One single second, one single landscape, in which what happens activates and deactivates what has already happened in endless chain reactions, like the processes that take place in the brain, perhaps, where cells suddenly bloom and die away, all according to the way the winds of consciousness are blowing. ↗

— Karl Ove Knausgård

#consciousness #mind #moment #reality #time

When we develop the heart chakra, we begin to influence the surroundings with our spiritual presence. When we develop the communication chakra, we begin to influence the country with our spiritual presence. When we develop the seventh chakra, we begin to influence the world with our spiritual presence without doing anything. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#communcation-chakra #consciousness #heart-chakra #meditation #presence

Courage is often associated with aggression, but instead should be seen as a willingness to act from the heart. ↗

— Donna Quesada

#consciousness-raising #spirituality #yoga #zen #courage

Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#dreams #unconscious #dreams