Quotes About Consciousness

Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.

When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter " And proved it - 'twas no matter what he said.

For the choke, there are no "tough guys". With an arm lock he can be tough and resist the pain. With the choke he just passes out, goes to sleep.

Art can no longer be merely a mirror, it must act as the organizer of the people's consciousness... No form of representation is so readily comprehensible to the masses as photography.

Vipassana is the art of living. Not the art of escaping.

I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.

Magick is the art of causing changes in consciousness to occur in accordance with the will.

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. ... They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.

There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.

Strange—we are always inhabiting more than one realm of existence—but they all fit in if the art is right.

The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine.

To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.

Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.

Art is about paying attention.

When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community.

You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, 'What is it?' In that moment art can be created.

One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.

The Art of Being: A state of wholeness in which the mind functions freely and easily, without the sensation of a second mind or ego standing over it with a club.