Sentences with phrase «acts on consciousness»

The direct perception of a truth acts on consciousness but the acceptance of the ideas of another does not.

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In the act of reflecting I pass judgment on the consciousness reflected - on; I am ashamed of it, I am proud of it, I will it, I deny it, etc..

Thus we have a harmonized collectivity of consciousnesses which together make up a sort of super-consciousness; the earth not merely covered by myriads of grains of thought but enclosed in one single enveloping consciousness so that it forms, functionally, a single vast grain of thought on a sidereal scale of immensity, the plurality of individual acts of reflective consciousness coming together and reinforcing one another in a single unanimous act.

To focus entirely on paradigmatic modes of thought is to pull away from attending to consciousness, and therefore, to the human act of sense - making.

Is it the Christian spirit, on the contrary: the spirit of service and of giving; Man struggling like Jacob to conquer and attain a supreme center of consciousness which calls to him; the evolution of the earth ending in an act of union?

But the succeeding acts of the drama must take place on another level; they must occur in a new world into which, at this moment, we are being born: a world in which each thinking unit upon earth will only act (if he agrees to act) in the consciousness, become natural and instinctive to all, of furthering a work of total personalization.

Contraction permits material movement to be perceived by consciousness; it regulates external duration according to the needs of internal duration and thereby makes it possible for consciousness to act on matter.

The global culture will evolve, if it evolves at all, out of the spread of global consciousness (as described in Chapter 8)-- a consciousness of the human predicament, an appreciation of humanity's dependence on the earth, and a willingness to act jointly in response.

The oppressed are of course on the way towards world consciousness, but the sufficiently general vision to achieve the unselfish act escapes them.

In such an act, I can hold before my consciousness my initial representation of the pie and the successive experiences on my way into the kitchen (and I am aware of them as being past and as having been present to me), and I can recognize that the direct intuition of the pie is the fulfillment of the prior experiences.

He is opposed to it on the grounds that it fails to account for the difference between acts of consciousness and written texts.38

If you still aren't sure that your partner will be taken in by your act, Swift goes on to propose a novel version of the consciousness - raising group to help you to refine your performance: «Get some close friends together and form an Orgasm Faking Circle,» she says.

From the moment he first made his dent on the public consciousness as Benjamin Braddock, the confused young man / symbol of the generation - gap Sixties of Mike Nichols» The Graduate, he helped signal a sea change in screen acting.

Downey's works are meditations on the act of mirroring and on the fact that sign, symbols, and art itself are mirrors or metaphors for human consciousness.

Characterized by its emphasis on the monochrome, its refined approach to materiality and its philosophical interest in the relationship between the artist's consciousness and the act of making, Dansaekwha borrowed materials, techniques and motifs from both Eastern and Western painting traditions.

Oddly enough it's a conceptual approach with a process based on feeling, and can manifest through various praxes such as free association, stream of consciousness, doodling, chance, and acting upon impulse.

During periods when one partner is disgusted with the other, level of consciousness will greatly influence how well the partners will stay on course and act responsibly.