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Quotes About Consciousness

what all books might do for their readers—namely, bring back to life, from the deadness caused by habit and inattention, valuable yet neglected aspects of experience.
~ Alain de Botton
As David lifted a suitcase onto the conveyor belt, he came to an unexpected and troubling realisation: that he was bringing himself with him on his holiday. Whatever the qualities of the Dimitra Residence, they were going to be critically undermined by the fact that he would be in the villa as well.
~ Alain de Botton
We require such 'sensuous' arts, Hegel suggested, because many important truths will impress themselves upon our consciousness only if they have been moulded from sensory, emotive material.
~ Alain de Botton
Mutluluk, bizim beklentilerimizdeki gibi kesintisiz ve uzun süren bir memnuniyet duygusu deÄŸildir. Aksine, akl?n ve bilincin de iÅŸin içinde olduÄŸu, k?sac?k ve tesadüfi bir olgudur; k?sa bir süre için dünyay? çok net alg?lar?z; geçmiÅŸin ve geleceÄŸin olumlu düÅŸünceleri bir araya gelir ve endiÅŸeler ortadan kaybolur. Fakat bu durumun on dakikadan daha uzun sürdüÄŸü pek nadirdir.
~ Alain de Botton
What we see evidence for in others, we will attend to within, what others are silent about, we may stay blind to or experience only in shame.
~ Alain de Botton
Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm, nor does it arise from sentiments of which nonartists are devoid; it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly.
~ Alain de Botton
Solo quello che vedi con la coda dell'occhio ti tocca nel profondo. (E.M. Forster)
~ Alan Bennett
The only thing more important than your to-do list is your to-be list. The only thing more important than your to-be list is to be. ~
~ Alan Cohen
If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.
~ Alan Cohen
Part of you thinks that you are not going to die because part of you is not going to die.
~ Alan Cohen
You are not here to work. You are here to awaken.
~ Alan Cohen
Life is not happening to you. Life is responding to you. —AUTHOR UNKNOWN
~ Alan Cohen
Therefore the wise are guided by what they feel and not by what they see, Letting go of that and choosing this. —12
~ Alan Cohen
Tu trabajo consiste en que tu conciencia se establezca en el asombro, la belleza y el valor del momento presente, que es lo que te hará feliz ahora y te ayudará a seguir siéndolo.
~ Alan Cohen
Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us
~ Alan Cohen
If you know you live in an abundant universe, you trust that you have enough time to do what you need to do. When we are in the consciousness of peace, time becomes elastic; it will expand or contract to accommodate our purpose.
~ Alan Cohen
I live in the world I choose with my thoughts.
~ Alan Cohen
Your thoughts do not create reality. They either recognize reality or they do not.
~ Alan Cohen
It was left to San'dwil to sum up the totality of the attempt. "So you can make the bodies live but cannot bring back consciousness." Wol'daeen gestured affirmatively. "It is most exasperating. The resurrected forms have all the appearance of life but none of the necessary cognitive functions.
~ Alan Dean Foster
A moment comes, and if you wish to look at yourself as human, you must take some kind of action. Otherwise, you can read the newspapers and congratulate yourself on your good fortune.
~ Alan Furst
to be fully human is tying together the heart and the head, and by doing this, we can be more aware of the threads that connect us.
~ Alan Graham
asked, 'Lord, does he or she who sees the vision perceive it through soul or spirit?' He answered, 'One perceives through neither soul nor spirit but by mind, which mediates between both; visions are mental.
~ Alan Jacobs
The more sober you get, the more clearly you feel
~ Alan Kaufman
The Sun and planets represent the spiritual consciousness in the heaven world ; the signs of the zodiac represent the astral or psychic consciousness ; and the houses of the horoscope as a whole, represent the physical consciousness.
~ Alan Leo