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Visionaries have two principal means to immediately communicate insights beyond people’s mundane, common mindset. They can liken awareness to equivalent situations in life to which the listener can relate – using metaphor, analogy and other grammatical tools to picture points. Or they can illustrate how listeners can gain such awareness – a path to proceed on, techniques to engage, what to look for within.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, The Illusion of "Truth": The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth
As to “facts” as a basis of understanding things in this investigative age: if there is anything greatly preferred to valid, reliable information in our culture, it is the appearance of facts – nice, tidy story lines that seem complete and perfunctory, stories that can be widely circulated in mutual agreement, despite lacking validity. And, as there are absolutely no historical facts concerning the life of Jesus of Nazareth – not a single word about him recorded during his lifetime – Christianity provides such a wonderful substitute appearance.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, The Illusion of "Truth": The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth
It is vital to see not only what Christianity asserts, but where its precepts came from – how they evolved from primitive, superstitious metaphysical claims into “Gospel Truth”.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, The Illusion of "Truth": The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth
While scholarly research provides extensive information, the real Jesus, the man who voiced various timeless insights on life, can only be revealed when life is understood better than the common mindset of our time allows.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, The Illusion of "Truth": The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth
Religions take hold and dominate a culture, not because they accurately portray reality, but because they appear to, once having been accepted – such that succeeding generations are heavily indoctrinated into the shared cultural mindset from birth.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, The Illusion of "Truth": The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth
Yet, reality operates in a consistent way – the same physical, interactive functions are in play for every conscious human in existence. If religion reflected reality as it actually works, all religions would be the same: accurate rendering in words depicting life’s real flow
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, The Illusion of "Truth": The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth
Reality’s functional flow can never be debated: reality manifests as it does regardless of individual recognition of its value-based inter-active function. Only simulated notions about reality – creeds, definitions, assumptions, paradigms – can be argued over. And that debate knows neither end nor resolution, as each arguing party hosts a personally customized fantasy – with each appearing unwaveringly valid to the holder.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, The Illusion of "Truth": The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth
Understanding points Jesus presented to his peers requires exploring how Jews, local Greeks, Romans and other ethnic mixes inhabiting the region perceived reality. Without a clear recognition of the common ancient mindset, regard for precepts presented in the Gospels and Christian tradition becomes distorted by a default – yet highly flawed – impression that people back then thought and acted like people today
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, The Illusion of "Truth": The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth
Had the common man in (first century) Palestine thought about it at all, he would have considered the world flat, with land riding on and surrounded by water below and above. Keeping water up there was the “firmament” – a great, canopy-like dome not too far beyond where birds could fly. Indeed, the firmament had gates for the sun and moon to go through, and through which water fell as rain from the waters above.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, The Illusion of "Truth": The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth
Clouding the exact evolution of El and Yahweh as concepts (and any other aspect of belief, for neither El nor Yahweh ever existed as anything except mind images of fervent believers) is the invariable propensity of associated religions to revise their history along the way according to subsequently popular interests.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, The Illusion of "Truth": The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth
Judaism, for example, presents itself as monotheistic and retrofits that claim on its history by revising its lore. But in ancient times, Judaism was much more accurately Henotheism, wherein people (particularly common folk) worshipped a principal god while accepting the existence of other deities, or Monolatrism, where many gods were acknowledged, but only one worshipped.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, The Illusion of "Truth": The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth
But for centuries, since the capitulation of Judah, the Jewish peoples had been almost continuously under foreign control. So, where was Yahweh all this time while his people suffered...? Far from ever questioning the very being of such an inept deity, the conclusion was invariably reached – likely promoted by religious authorities living privileged lifestyles – that the people had sinned, had worshipped other gods, had somehow failed their side of the bargain.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, The Illusion of "Truth": The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth
The only difference between holding one god as exclusive or supreme and believing in many gods specialized in function is the number.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, The Illusion of "Truth": The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth
In terms of idols which represented various gods: worshipping an idol or star cluster is no different than worshipping a concept.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, The Illusion of "Truth": The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth
The religious and scholarly alike arrive at conclusions as to Jesus’ nature based on the world-view they hold, the belief structure that shapes their interpretation. Inaccurate views of the function of reality can only lead to erroneous conclusions.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, The Illusion of "Truth": The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth
Understand that religion, at least western versions of it, rests on a type of thinking called Revelation. This mode holds that truths concerning the workings of reality are hidden, masked by, through or behind a deity such that only a few privileged souls are able to see through the veil and “reveal” those truths. . . But (around 1600) revelation as a means of understanding began to be challenged by two other methods of differentiating truth from fallacy: Reason and Empiricism.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, The Illusion of "Truth": The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth
However, just as earlier, when Christianity was introduced it didn’t eliminate pagan conceptualizations, but layered new beliefs on top of them, so science simply added to the western mindset. It didn’t fully displace religion, luck, fate, etc. Science just heaped other definitions onto the average person’s already conglomerated psychic truckload.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, The Illusion of "Truth": The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth
You encounter, at its core, a subjective Reality, one based on meaning and value reflective of your own Self, not an objective universe, cold, particle-based and indifferent as science projects.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, The Illusion of "Truth": The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth
Various visionaries through time came to see with some degree of clarity that Oneness, that intrinsic connection between Self and experienced Reality.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, The Illusion of "Truth": The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth
The fact is: Jesus wrote not a solitary word that survives. Equally astounding is historical silence: not a single historical account refers to him during his lifetime from any source whatsoever, Roman or Jewish, official or personal.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, The Illusion of "Truth": The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth
Josephus is the first historian to make note of Jesus having even existed – and that happened six full decades after his death.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, The Illusion of "Truth": The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth
The authors of the gospels, like all writers in all time periods, either reference information they have at hand – including things they’ve heard or read – or they make things up. . . For reference material, the author of Mark relied not on Jesus himself or any writings from him. . . . His sole source(was): oral traditions passed along by word-of-mouth for four decades.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, The Illusion of "Truth": The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth
That means 19 or 20 of the books of the NT (New Testament) are anonymous. Many are blatantly pseudepigraphic (forgeries, see next section), with famous names applied to artificially promote veracity.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, The Illusion of "Truth": The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth
The gospels, never meant to report, butrather to convince, are in no sense objective and dispassionate biographies. They are glowing accounts meant to persuade people of the writers’ convictions.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, The Illusion of "Truth": The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth
Of course, the original (anonymous) writer of (the Gospel of) John didn’t use quotes – as they didn’t exist in written Greek – but the translator/publisher of the modern Bible does. And that style strongly implies a validity that is pure illusion.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, The Illusion of "Truth": The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth
Regardless of type, however, the mechanism of a religion works like this: children, from the time they can communicate, are taught to see reality in a certain way. They are indoctrinated with a pre-defined belief structure and value set. Naive, open to such teaching, given only the religious viewpoint and perhaps punished or ostracized if they don’t accept it, most ultimately absorb and mimic the religion outright.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
The scientist would look at a sphere, measure the surface in great detail, categorize the skin qualities and components, then predict evolving surface tensions and potentials. The use of that sphere, however, along with its beauty and potential would not be of interest. Science would count the bricks of a house, but not care about living in it, thus missing the point – but thinking that, by quantifying the physical, everything had been covered.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
You are the only real authority in your life, but you yield that status to so many externals by believing in them, by having been punished or forced into accepting them.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
Because your life is a reflection of your inner Self, causality comes exclusively in changing your own nature, not trying to change the external world out there by manipulating it.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
There is no “other self” to the unconscious, no independent entity with its own agenda; it is only information and stored value relationships – a broad array of raw information that undergirds the more superficial “knowledge” learned through rational processes and impacts in all ways the emerging Reality that each conscious Self encounters.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
When, and only when, you clearly see the inner roots to an outer condition, can you change them and thus it.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
The key realization to delving inwards to deal with the roots of outer symptoms is this: once you have clearly identified the core, inner roots to a problem, you then have authority over the situation. . . If, though, you never delve within. . . you will not eliminate the inner source of theproblem and thus never fully extinguish the external symptom.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
There is no other force, no other determining factor, no external cause to the cohesive unfolding of your life’s episodes – only your composite inner nature. Change that and you change your life.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
Since the effects of your life that lead to pain and annoyance are always consequences of inner elements, what you commonly regard as “problems” are more accurately seen as outer symptoms of inner, causal problems. The practical approach is to begin looking at those specific aspects of your life that are not as you desire to find their source, rooted in your mindset.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
If you picture other people as superior to yourself, you will realize thatmental image. Putting a preacher, a saint, a prophet, an expert or anybody up on a pedestal in your personal view, fundamentally accomplishes nothing but the effect of putting you in a pit.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
One vital aspect in the Path toward Clear Awareness is the beginning of differentiation between belief-induced appearance and Reality. In many ways I can illustrate illusions and point out artificial concepts that are commonly accepted as real, but the onus of recognition is for you to come to see these things as what they are.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
So how do you teach your kids Awareness – to trust in themselves, to love without judging, to expect health without having to manipulate their bodies with drugs, to expect and accept abundance, not eternal struggle? Simply put: you can’t – unless you have that Awareness yourself. In that case, youdon’t have to “do” anything – just be yourself.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
. . . And the consequence to that is, you can never attain a Clear Awareness of life’s flow by absorbing and following Old Teachings, however revered by our culture, however vaunted by institutions and fancy buildings, however nice they sound, because you must already hold adequate wisdom in order to even identify it. Unless you can tell which expressions are wise because you are aware of life’s nature yourself, you will invariably be soundly, profoundly fooled.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
Vocal cords are not rental units. No Hebrew prophet, nor Mohammed, nor any founder of any cult or religion ever spoke the words of anybody but themselves.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
Simply put, the relative age of a philosophical perspective has nothing to do with its veracity. It is pure illusion to imagine that just because a view of life was held and put to words long ago, that it is more valid.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
The only creative force capable of causally revising your experienced reality is your power to change your Self.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
But there is only one mechanism to life, one way in which Reality functions. Theology, the rendered definition behind religion, philosophy and science all purport to depict that functionality. But if each fails to do so accurately, that invalidity needs to be exposed – and the only way to do that is to point out the fallacious elements of the description.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
It must be obvious that the Reality we all encounter only works one way, and it functions that way regardless of what the experiencer believes.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
Of the hundreds of religions and philosophies ever entertained by the mind of man, each considered by the convinced holder to be the only valid one, only at the very most one can be accurate. . . Just as obvious should be the possibility, if not likelihood, if not certainty, that none of those hundreds of religions accurately depicts How Life Works.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
The real Journey is a personal venture into your own mind content. Nobody, not the greatest mystic, the most vaunted guru, the most hailed psychologist, though they might shuttle you along the trail for a ways, will get you there. Only you yourself can do that.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
But Lao Tzu’s teaching suffers from the major problem endemic to such visionaries. In the intervening two and a half millennia, his words have been misinterpreted and distorted by generations of adherents until his message is riddled with meaningless ritual and dogma. Taoism contracted the conceptual plague: it became a religion.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
Clearly, when western cultures absorbed Christianity, they got an all-inclusive package: ancient Hebrew rituals and myths steeped in lost purpose, scantily recorded and broadly misinterpreted teachings of Jesus, revisions and distortions by Paul, twisted cosmology and superstitions supplied by priesthoods and bureaucratic/political distortions innate to man’s traditionalendeavors.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
However, in regards to the theological aspects of each religion, tradition or philosophy, the same exacting standard must be set as measurement: does it clearly and accurately depict the functionality of Reality? That is, does the cosmology precisely describe how Reality works? If not, then the religion is invalid.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
Even though this deity (the Christian God with a capital "G") has evolved through its 2000 years, it somehow maintains in its current version all old characteristics, whether conflicting or consistent: readiness to punish but ability to heal, vindictiveness yet forgiveness, utter cruelty to outside nonbelievers but looking for converts, etc.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
But what you are looking for is not “truth,” not a collection of fine and polished answers emanating from grand buildings, expert acknowledgement and advanced academic degrees. What you are looking for is your Self, and what I provide here are some tools and perspectives to aid a Journey through the jungle of explanations and definitions and up a mountain of perspective to where you can see that Self clearly.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
However, science, by its very nature, forms its own inherent boundaries to man’s progress. . . Focused as it is on the world out there, categorizing and measuring, theorizing and concluding all things based on external evidence and proof, science misses the core of life: the consciousness doing the experiencing.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
If you’ve come to see that the image you absorbed while growing up is not valid, and you launch out on a prefabricated Journey, you are most likely to simply replace it with another, fancier paradigm – the mind is that easily fooled by its own base view.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
You never saw an angel, because they don’t exist – at least not in this Reality. They do exist in the realm of imagination – but then, just about anything can be conjured up there in a mind steeped in myth and lore.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
One always has to wonder anew how anyone could imagine a god, who, so overwhelmingly intelligent and powerful as to have been able to create this enormously complex world and the vast universe it floats around in, would populate it with a bunch of humans whose primary purpose consisted of bowing subserviently in worship.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
Above, in discussing the perceptive notions of Jesus, remarkable concepts of Plato or the highly introspective lessons of Gautama and Lao Tzu, it took considerable discussion to explore the meaning and relate it to How Life Works. Islam presents no such deep pool of thought to pierce.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself.
— Bill Hicks
His meals were always punctual. Whether she cooked well or badly he did not know; it was a matter of total indifference to him. During his meals, which he ate at his writing desk, he was busy with important considerations. As a rule he would not have been able to say what precisely he had in his mouth. He reserved consciousness for real thoughts; they depend upon it; without consciousness, thoughts are unthinkable. Chewing and digestion happen of themselves.
— Elias Canetti, Auto-da-Fé
How "spiritual" you are has nothing to do with what you believe, but everything to do with your state of consciousness.
— Eckhart Tolle
The neurological condition of echopraxia is to autonomy as blindsight is to consciousness.
— Peter Watts, Echopraxia
Your Real Self is the permanent atom of your identity, the rock of ages that remains unmoved by the restless tides of life.
— Elizabeth Clare Prophet
Whatever beliefs and definitions you hold will seem to be true.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
In normal everyday usage, "I" embodies the primordial error, a misperception of who you are, an illusory sense of identity. This is the ego. The illusory sense of self is what Albert Einstein, who had deep insights not only into the reality of space an time, but also into human nature, referred to as "an optical illusion of consciousness.
— Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
If all is Consciousness, experience its infinity, create your own journey through it, be amazed.
— Jay Woodman
Beliefs and definitions never clarify how Reality works -- they only distort perception of it.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
Reality, in its essence, consists not of particles interacting pointlessly in anindependent physical plane, but rather of values, psychological elements ofmind, made real.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
Reality works in this fashion: what you hold in your mind – the self-image,hopes and expectations, world view, beliefs, fears, feelings and all else – becomes realized in your life, continuously.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
Regardless of what you believe in or conceive of as the functionality of Reality, the Oneness of you with all you experience in your life is an absolute
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
The Flow in life is not a temporal displacement of moving objects, from a past into a future via a present. Theessential, ongoing Flow to this Reality is an emergence from the value set of your inner nature into the outer realm of events and relationships, where it is then experienced by you in a Now moment.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
So life does flow, but not from left to right on a time scale, rather frominside out.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
I write these pieces, not to convince you of anything, nor to argue points for the purpose of proposing a new standard or a new philosophy – and certainly not to create yet another religious movement. Rather, my purpose is simple: to communicate a new and clean perspective of life that I often refer to as Clear Awareness.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
Clear Awareness is not a magical state to be attained by secret rituals, chants, pleading to some external source or emergence into astral planes, nor a status bestowed by a certified master. Nor is it a capability of yours that needs to be developed, strengthened or discovered. Awareness is the core attribute of your existence; it only needs to be freed from all the synthetic definitions, beliefs, misconceptions, fears and other hindering fallacies your mind has absorbed through the course of your life.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
If you find that you “disagree” with something I’ve written, then you missed the point!!
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
The New Age is not one of bells and whistles and mystical special effects. It is not a fantasy state driven by the alignments of planets or the power of crystals, nor a metaphysical rising to higher plains of consciousness by virtue of chanting esoteric mantras. It will not feature the arrival of a thunderbolt-wielding god, ready to set up a final judgment by reviving hordes of old, decayed corpses. The real New Age is a simple, but stunningly profound, awareness that one’s Self and all that one encounters are two aspects of the same, singular Essence.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
The concept of a Miracle, that is, an event that takes place somehow beyond the scope of functional Reality, is absurd. . . There cannot be a true miracle. There can only be events that appear miraculous when you don’t really understand How Life Works.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
There exists only a mechanism by which meaning flows from intangible mind element into real event – and when you see that, all the postulated structures and cosmologies, built only of concepts, dissipate like yesterday’s weather.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
So, am I some sort of Savior? Not hardly. Save yourself the worry about needing to be saved from anything.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
As it is, the vital question you should be asking is not what I am, but what you yourself are.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
The wild nature has a vast integrity to it. It means to establish one's territory, to find one's pack, to be in one's body with certainty and pride regardless of the body's gifts and limitations, to speak and act in one's own behalf, to be aware, alert, to draw on the innate feminine powers of intuition and sensing, to come into one's cycles, to find what one belongs to, to rise with dignity, to retain as much consciousness as possible. -Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With The Wolves, Singing Over The Bones, P10.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Give a man a mask, and he'll tell you deeper and darker truths. But he'll also be more abusive, unaccountable, and demonic.
— Cory Duchesne
False humility is the pride of not being proud, real humility is without the consciousness that pride exists.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
When one loves knowingly, when one loves consciously, with full knowledge, with full understanding, the delights of a person in love are nothing in comparison with the delights of love that sprouts only from the spirit.
— Judas Iscariot The Flight of the Feathered Serpent
They might be drugs that alter the states of consciousness, or they might be states of transcendence reached in meditation. They might be moments of orgasm, or fugue states, or day-dreams that take you momentarily to a rewarding fantasy and escape from responsibility. All of these are treasures of the spirit or psyche that allow exploration along paths which are undefined and completely individual.
— Alexander Shulgin, Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story
Science often progresses by carving out new distinctions that refine the fuzzy categories of natural language.
— Stanislas Dehaene, Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
It is time for us to open our eyes. It is time for us to awaken to new possibilities and make them real. It is time for us to awaken our dormant spirituality-first as individuals, then as whole nations, and finally as the whole of humanity-and raise up our collective consciousness.-Healing Society: A Prescription for Global Enlightenment
— Ilchi Lee
Life isn't memorable enough to remember everything. It's not like there are explosions all the time, or dog smoking cigarettes.
— Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
Whoever has hatred toward someone is that hatred.
— Belsebuub, Gazing into the Eternal: Reflections upon a Deeper Purpose to Living
Happiness is purely a chosen state of being available to all, at all times.I choose to be happy, because I am.
— Raphael Zernoff
Art is inextricably tied to man's survival - not to his physical survival, but to that on which his physical survival depends: to the preservation and survival of his consciousness.
— Ayn Rand
We are consciousness playing a game with itself to see how it feels.
— Jay Woodman
Through our consciousness, we can enter the stillness of silence and become blessed with the universal presence of peace.
— Georgi Y. Johnson, I Am Here: Opening the Windows of Life and Beauty
Through mastering the means of perception, the promise of who you are in physical form is opened with an increasing opportunity for fulfilment.
— Georgi Y. Johnson, I Am Here: Opening the Windows of Life and Beauty
The pinnacle of human consciousness must be the rejection of unhealthy competition, war and violence.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The totally alive, totally conscious, and totally aware Universe takes care of itself completely. It is totally self-reliant and totally self- sufficient. it is perfect.
— Chris Prentiss, Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
Missing HomeSometimes when we may experience a feeling of nostalgia, and a longing for our Home, it does not really mean that our Home is somewhere out there in the stars. It means that we start remembering our own divine Self. We miss, it and we want to be reconnected to what is truly ours. We always can, at any moment, turn to our hearts. When we raise the feeling of gratitude and appreciation for who we are, we know we are at Home.
— Raphael Zernoff
The Universe is alive, conscious, and aware.
— Chris Prentiss
A positive response to any situation is the key to the feeling of well-being. The more we practice it the easier it becomes. Gradually all automatic reactions are being replaced by a conscious response. When we know we are self-empowered, we take responsibility for our emotions. It is knowing that we have the ability to respond in a way we prefer.
— Raphael Zernoff
We cannot perceive what we are not vibrationally a part of. We cannot be affected by an experience of evil, when we are focused on peace, harmony and love.
— Raphael Zernoff
Everything with no exception is a choice. The choice can be either conscious or unconscious depending on the level of self-awareness. The more self-aware we become, the faster we can make our unconscious choices known to us.
— Raphael Zernoff
People seek light in the external darkness Not knowing that the Light is within.Close your physical eyes and see with your inner vision.Open your eyes and see what before was invisible to you.
— Raphael Zernoff
... And when the time comes to choose yet another dream, I shall smile knowing that I had a life with no less challenges than others, but I chose to respond to them with love.
— Raphael Zernoff
The emergence of one world consciousness must be accompanied with one world political infrastructures.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
What if I told you, that consciousness is not in the body, body is embedded in the consciousness.
— Prana Gogia
As your consciousness, refinement and pureness of heart expands you will become less judgmental, less corrective, less reactive, less black-and-white, less critical, less apt to blame and less tormented by others and their faults and views.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.
— Joseph Brodsky, Less Than One: Selected Essays
P46- As long as the oppressed remain unaware of the causes of their condition, they fatalistically "accept" their exploitation.
— Paulo Freire
p5-what they need..is a quality of mind that will help them to use information and to develop reason in order to achieve lucid summations of what is going on in the world and of what may be happening within themselves. It this this quality..what may be called the sociological imagination.
— C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination
P33- Oppression is domesticating. Gravest obstacle to the achievement of liberation is that oppressive reality absorbs those within it and thereby acts to submerge human beings consciousness.
— Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Your frequency is what you frequently see. Pay attention to synchronicity as there are valuable lessons to be learned in the repetition of your reality.
— Jennifer Sodini
We are all students of the world; frail embodied consciousnesses struggling to understand, and be a meaningful part of this great, mysterious gift of life.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The conscious events that we are aware of are physical events in their own right, just as much as the brain events observed in the lab by researchers. If we allow the mental its own existence as a category disjoint from the physical, we will never be able to get it back in.
— William Hirstein, Mindmelding: Consciousness, Neuroscience, and the Mind's Privacy
I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Listen to your body. The quality of your communication matters.
— Natalie Geld
When you allow yourself to remember that you truly are a multidimensional being, you will begin experiencing yourself in a much more expanded way. What previously was believed to be supernatural becomes natural. Then you come to a realisation that now you can see what has always been there yet it remained hidden to you who chose to see something else.
— Raphael Zernoff
Ascension through all levels of consciousness and awareness can only happen when you live life as you, and not how others think you should live. How could self-realization possibly be anything other than being yourself?
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
If you are to suppose that natural reasons are the cause of everything, then it can only lead to the conclusion that consciousness is an illusion.
— Lewis N. Roe, From A To Theta: Taking The Tricky Subject Of Religion And Explaining Why It Makes Sense In A Way We Can All Understand
The seventh element is ‘consciousness’ that raises a human from the basic corporeal state and takes them to super-consciousness.
— Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
In the words of Lynne McTaggart: "Living consciousness somehow is the influence that turns the possibility of something into something real. The most essential ingredient in creating our universe is the consciousness that observes it.
— Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol
There is that sense that we have to all come together, the challenges have become so great for the human species that it's going to take all of us to find our way out. One of the ways to achieve this goal, of course, is to expand the freedom of religions so that those people who use psychedelics within their religious practise are able to do so. -Rick Doblin
— Cameron Adams, Breaking Convention: Essays on Psychedelic Consciousness
If, as Max Weber contended, science, modernity and rationalism have disenchanted the world and swept it clean of gods, spirits and magic (or, at least, problematised believing in them), then psychedelics offer a potential way out of the ensuing existential impasse. -Andy Letcher
— Cameron Adams, Breaking Convention: Essays on Psychedelic Consciousness
Whatever the story means in the story which I told you, the fact of thinking in terms of stories does not isolate human beings as something separate from the starfish and the sea anemones, the coconut palms and the primroses. Rather, if the world be connected, if I am at all fundamentally right in what I am saying, then thinking in terms of stories must be shared by all mind or minds, whether ours or those of red wood forests and sea anemones.Credit Line: Vít Pokorný
— Cameron Adams, Breaking Convention: Essays on Psychedelic Consciousness
Observing the stream of eternal and simple truth is the same for all who look upon the fountainhead of consciousness.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Sure all life's highways at some point must end, so I plan to ride it in style and plummet in a swan dive when the pavement runs out...And hopefully leave behind artistically that which may make other roads an even better ride...
— Tom Althouse, The Frowny Face Cow
…falling in love is a state of mental misery which has a restricting, impoverishing, and paralyzing effect upon the development of our consciousness.
— José Ortega y Gasset
Life follows a rhythm and we hold the drum.
— Tom Althouse, The Frowny Face Cow
There's Nothing To Hide When Your Soul Is Not Guilty....
— Muhammad Imran Hasan
Love transcends beyond eternity and it is perpetual as our own consciousness..
— Dave Zebian
If life were a highway, I would still look for the footpath, for walking that, I would learn about us, enjoying the extra time to do so.
— Tom Althouse, The Frowny Face Cow
We are therefore blessed with powerful minds yet at the same time cursed, not only to die, but to know that we must.
— Stephen  Cave, Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization
Our consciousness on the physical plane is relatively crude. We view choice making in terms of language, but like time, language is a construct of the physical plane. Nonetheless, on some level and in some way that may be incomprehensible to us now, we chose all the components of who we are—they are not imposed upon it.
— Shepherd Hoodwin, Journey of Your Soul: A Channel Explores the Michael Teachings
No matter how different one looks or may seem, all are just shades in the colorful rainbow of life that loves everyone, no matter if they are short, purple, or green.
— Jennifer Sodini, The Unity Tree: A Whimsical Muse on Cosmic Consciousness
As the soul seeks, then, for that which is the sustenance of the body—as what the food is to a developing, a growing body, so are the words of truth (which are life, which are love, which are God) sought that make for growth, even as the digesting of the material things in a body make for a growth. This growth may not be felt in the consciousness of materialization. It is experienced by the consciousness of the soul... Feed, then, upon the fruits of the spirit. Love, hope, joy, mercy, long-suffering, brotherly love, and the contact, the growth, will be seen; and within the consciousness of the soul will the awareness come of the personality of the God in thee!
— Edgar Cayce
What indeed is the half-life of a mortal consciousness? What is the half-life of a memory of that mortal consciousness? Of course, this is purely an academic question and of no immediate concern to those of us existing in the world of the living, for we possess already a memory, in its stead, which serves as a basis of our perception of the past. Accurate or not, this nature of memory allows us to understand the past according to the positions occupied by the flesh about which we seek to know, but, unfortunately, not in a way relative to the flesh itself—that flesh stripped of identity and circumstance, that flesh which, in its most rudimentary capacity, had once collided, interacted, fought, competed, negotiated, cooperated, and mated with other flesh: there is no history of this kind, thoroughly naked and telling enough, which is accessible to us, for we are composed of the very same substance, the very same flesh, and sadly incapable of stepping outside of it, even momentarily.
— Ashim Shanker, Only the Deplorable
Everything you know is a story. That’s how human consciousness works.
— Ed Gray
The spark of consciousness is reflected in the river, where a dance of infinite faces lined in profane lights.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Energy doesn't speak English, Spanish or Chinese, but it does speak clearly. It speaks through the metaphors of our lived experiences, through the rain, floods, drought, earthquakes, excessive heat, unseasonable cold or the erupting volcanoes of nature. It communicates through the itches, pains, boils and pimples, through congestion, vertigo and backaches of the body. Energy speaks through our feelings that have nothing at all do with us, but are reflective of what is happening in the field. And, lastly, it speaks through synchronicities, coincidences and dreams that communicate messages which our conscious minds could not have known. This language of Energy, like any new tongue, is challenging.
— Elaine Seiler, Your Multi-Dimensional Workbook: Exercises for Energetic Awakening
Our universe was created to perpetuate creation, it was not created to perpetuate consumption.
— Jennifer Sodini
Through having different conversations, I have 'real-eyesed' how common and easy it is to make decisions based on unquestioned belief systems, traditions and concepts we were raised with...by the very same humans who followed the exact same unquestioned patterns.These conditions govern our lives in EVERY way imaginable.
— Dana Gore
Perhaps the universe is a big fat consciousness and the matter is just an illusion.
— Erol Ozan
It is not solely or chiefly in virtue of the divine image that man effectively resembles God, but in virtue of his consciousness of being an image and the movement whereby the soul, passing in a way through itself, avails itself of the factual resemblance in order to attain to God.
— Étienne Gilson
Don't be arrogant,Because there are a lot of people that still be better than you.
— Rizky Adam Rifai
You have two choices: To live an unconscious life, or to be conscious of your magnificence...
— Cloris Kylie
When humanity stops confusing the construct with the Kingdom - we'll begin to recognize the Truth.
— Dana Gore
I am Sama Veda among the Vedas
—  I am Indra among the Devas
And one of my firmest conclusions is that we always think by seeking and drawing parallels to things we know from our past, and that we therefore communicate best when we exploit examples, analogies, and metaphors galore, when we avoid abstract generalities, when we use very down-to-earth, concrete, and simple language, and when we talk directly about our own experience.
— Douglas R. Hofstadter
This is the ordinariness of the Present, without anything special, mystic or mysterious, it simply exists!! One should live through one’s life from moment to moment, and allow things happen the way they want to happen. Abandon yourself into the Present! Be consciously present in every moment!
— Frank Wanderer
First you must face your own reality in the present, here and now! If you fail to do that, if you do not obtain first-hand experience from it, there will be no deep, far-reaching changes in you.
— Frank Wanderer
In the course of our journey leading to Consciousness, our objective should not be creating a positive character, and thus a pleasant scenario, but finding the Existence behind every scenario.
— Frank Wanderer
In the course of our Journey we need to realize that we do not need to become anything, because we are already in possession of the characteristics that we have been looking for so far, pursuing an image projected into the future.
— Frank Wanderer
The Wanderer will stop when they recognize the activities of the mind and refuse to follow it any longer. The Wanderer realizes that with the help of the mind they will not be able to surpass the mind. The Wanderer will experience that stopping is the inactive moment of the mind, the silence between thoughts. In that silence, the Wanderer will experience the Consciousness without forms, and recognize that he or she is in fact the Presence without thoughts.
— Frank Wanderer
The Wanderer in every moment spent awake faces two alternatives: a choice is to be made between the ambitions stretching between past and future, or the quiet, simplicity, purity and emptiness, full of vibrating life, of the present. It is, however, only the latter that brings to the life of the Wanderer the Witnessing Presence!
— Frank Wanderer
We are only able to get into the possession of Wisdom and get closer to Truth when and if we realize that all the knowledge and experience concentrated in the mind only hamper us in our awakening to Truth.
— Frank Wanderer
Those who decide to live in the Present, must leave their past behind. Once past has been left behind, future also disappears! What is left then? The actual moment, the Present! Living in the here and now means that we are able to get rid of time and suffering!
— Frank Wanderer
You must not forget that when you think of yourself as special–you really are–you should think of the other people in a similar way. Everybody is special you meet during your life, everyone who has lived and lives on Earth.
— Frank Wanderer
Rethink Your Success Mindset: Times are getting tougher. We need tougher mindsets to ensure that we go beyond survive to thrive.
— Tony Dovale
We are therefore constantly on the road, straying from one mental image to the next, and identify with these images, and derive our identity from the images.
— Frank Wanderer
Therefore, in my incontrovertible capacity as plaintiff and defendant judge and accused, I condemn this nature, which has so brazenly and unceremoniously inflicted this suffering… since I am unable to destroy Nature, I am destroying myself, solely out of weariness of having to endure a tyranny in which there is no guilty party.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
If you cannot reach a state of utter oneness with each other, how do you expect to solve anything? Separate the world will crumble; together the world will thrive.
— Jennifer Ott, Serendipidus
Perfection is, however, not to be sought in the future, as we are fully capable of experiencing it here and now, if we abandon ourselves into the present moment and allow the pleasure of Existence take us with it.
— Frank Wanderer
Rethink Your Success Mindset: With the right mindset, everything that you experience, along your journey towards success, is a blessing.
— Tony Dovale
Rethink Your Success Mindset: Gratitude is the attitude, fuel and catalyst that transforms life's challenges into wisdom.
— Tony Dovale
When someone studies well, has a successful career, or deals with difficulties well, people think he is a wise man. However, such successes do not mean that one is wise. True wisdom is to know with the consciousness of God.
— Woo Myung, The Way To Become A Person In Heaven While Living
When you take a solemn oath your heart and soul listens, then perception of consciousness and unity comes.
— Vasilios Karpos
The paradoxical situation with a vast number of people today is that they are half asleep when awake, and half awake when asleep, or when they want to sleep.
— Erich Fromm
There are countless ingredients that make up the human body and mind, like all the components that make up me as an individual with my own personality. Sure, I have a face and voice to distinguish myself from others, but my thoughts and memories are unique only to me, and I carry a sense of my own destiny. Each of those things are just a small part of it. I collect information to use in my own way. All of that blends to create a mixture that forms me and gives rise to my conscience.
— Mamoru Oshii
As above in consciousness, so below in matter
— Michael Sharp, The Book of Light: The Nature of God, the Structure of Consciousness and the Universe within You