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The key is that consciousness has the ability to concentrate on different things. The subject, consciousness, has the ability to selectively focus awareness on specific objects. If you step back, you will clearly see that objects are constantly passing before you at all three levels: mental, emotional, and physical. When you’re not centered, your c
... See moreMichael A. Singer • The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
The center of our conscious life is called ego. It has two concurrent characteristics: It is functional in that it is the strong grounded activating principle by which we make intellectual assessments and judgments, show feelings appropriately, and relate skillfully to other people. It can also be neurotic when it becomes attached, addicted, dualis
... See moreDavid Richo • How to Be an Adult: A Handbook on Psychological and Spiritual Integration
and bring his darkened mind back into the archetypal light, the true source of being.
Richard Tarnas • Passion of the Western Mind
is the only attribute within the components of the mind-matrix that has the capacity, the vocabulary, that is capable of entering a conversation with the unspeakable. This immense capacity, with its almost unlimited vocabulary, is called felt-perception.
Michael Brown • Alchemy of the Heart
about 99.9995 percent of the stimuli reaching our brain are processed below the level of consciousness. Among the overwhelming barrage of internal and external stimuli we are encountering at any given moment, the SN identifies what is
James Doty • Mind Magic
One way to talk about the formation of the ego is to say that our consciousness starts dancing in the vastness, and soon we are dancing so intensely we lose sight of our relationship with that space and become caught up in an experience of “I.”