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«It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.»

Author: Carl Gustav Jung (Founder, Psychologist) | Keywords: consciousness, continually, noise, on the whole

«Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.»

Author: Iris Murdoch (Novelist, Philosopher) | About: Happiness | Keywords: busy, consciousness, everyday, livelier, lively, mode, unconcerned

«Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts.»

Author: Thich Nhat Hanh (Activist, Monk, Writer) | Keywords: breath, bridge, connects, consciousness, The Bridge, unites

«Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.»

Author: Ayn Rand (Novelist, Writer) | About: Happiness | Keywords: achievement, consciousness, proceeding, proceeds, state, values

«Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.»

Author: Aristotle (Philosopher, Physician, Scientist) | Keywords: consciousness, dignity, honors, possessing

«A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.»

Author: Albert Einstein (Physicist) | About: Mankind | Keywords: affection, a few, beauty, being, called, circles, circling, compassion, consciousness, Consciousness only, creatures, delusion, desires, embrace, experiences, feelings, few, free, freeing, freer, freest, free thought, free time, from the, human, human being, in a circle, in time, ITS, kind, kind of, limited, living, My Beauty, nearest, near in, optical, part, part time, personal, Personal experience, persons, prison, rest, restrict, restricted, restricting, restricts, separated, space, spaced, space like, spacing, task, tasked, tasking, The Creatures, the universe, thoughts, time and space, to the limit, universe, whole, widen, widened, widening, widens

«All things, oh priests, are on fire . . . The eye is on fire; forms are on fire; eye-consciousness is on fire; impressions received by the eye are on fire.»

Author: Buddha | Keywords: After the Fire, consciousness, Consciousness only, eye, fire, Fire I, fire up, firing, forms, impressions, Oh He, on fire, priests, received, take fire, The Eye, The Impressions, under fire

«In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.»