When we are being compassionate, we consider another's circumstance with love rather than judgement. . . To be compassionate is to move into the right here, right now with an open heart consciousness and a willingness to be supportive.
When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don't put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.
Its really important to understand the difference between sentience and consciousness, which are important for human beings.
All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness.
Consciousness is never experienced in the plural, only in the singular. Not only has none of us ever experienced more than one consciousness, but there is also no trace of circumstantial evidence of this ever happening anywhere in the world. If I say that there cannot be more than one consciousness in the same mind, this seems a blunt tautology - we are quite unable to imagine the contrary.
The terrain of the mysteries is the ordinary. To seek out mystery, we don't have to go anywhere. We must simply change our preception, our description, our consciousness of where we are.
Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness.
One can see now how the idea of heaven takes hold of men's consciousness, how it gains ground even when all the props have been knocked from under it. There must be another world beside this swamp in which everything is dumped pell-mell. It's hard to imagine what it can be like, this heaven that men dream about.
The planet will not survive another hundred years of the same state of consciousness that produced the external effects of recent history.
Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness.
Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.
If the best the roboticists can hope for is the creation of some crude, cheesy, second-rate, artificial consciousness, they still win.
Some people are paralyzed by the consciousness of death, other people live with it. . . . The fatwa certainly made me think about it a lot more than I ever had. I guess I know I'm going to die, but then, so are you.
Monotheism at Sinai, primitive Christianity, messianic socialism: these are the three supreme moments in which Western culture is presented with what Ibsen termed "the claims of the ideal. " These are the three stages, profoundly interrelated, through which Western consciousness is forced to experience the blackmail of transcendence.
Thoughts come and go like leaves in the wind, but the core of consciousness is forever.
Your awareness has its source in unity. Instead of seeking outside yourself, go to the source to realize who you are.
I think that once somebody sees something, or feels it in the consciousness of society, it starts to allow change for other people.
I have gone from "being" my experience to being infinite consciousness having the experience and observing the experience.
In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender