#consciousness

Malcolm X raised my consciousness about myself and my people and other people more than any person I know. I knew him before he became Malcolm X. ↗

— Lena Horne

#any #became #before #consciousness #him

What if the differences between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence or even dollars, but merely differences in knowledge? Would this not mean the whole Pyramid is built on shifting sands?" I speculated such a suggestion could be seen as a serious deviancy. Melphi seemed delited. "Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' consciences; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding up the mirror." I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves. Melphi relplied, "History suggests, not until they are made to. ↗

— David Mitchell

#equality #hatred #justice #perception #racism

If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

#consciousness #presence #experience

Fears and lies intensify consciousness. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#fears #intensify #lies

Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#consciousness #considering #derive #forces #general

The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#consciousness #defined #development #evolution #grand

We hit a stride where all self-consciousness disappeared. ↗

— Joshua Leonard

#hit #self-consciousness #stride #where

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#created #level #no problem #problem #same

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue. ↗

— Brian Eno

#because #become #being #community #consciousness

I have a picture of an ideal consciousness. ↗

— Henry Flynt

#i #ideal #picture