Sentence examples for mere consciousness from inspiring English sources

Apuleius in the closing chapters of his novel usually called The Golden Ass in English describes how a young man is brought from mere consciousness of Isis as a famous goddess with certain well-known rites and attributes, to a single-minded devotion to her.

Because its reality is like this all the time, it is mere consciousness".

In terms of the argument, Śāntarakṣita argues "that which is cause and effect is mere consciousness only.

Thus, by stating that, "that which is cause and result is mere consciousness," Śāntarakṣita is stating that conventional truths are of the nature of consciousness.

In addition, later in the text, Śāntarakṣita describes such objects in a manner previously only used by proponents of the Yogācāra/Cittamātra school, namely, that such objects are "mere consciousness only".

Vasubandhu defines the perfect nature as the ultimate truth and identifies it with mere-consciousness.

But this answer begs the question against opponents of attributing conscious states to animals for it fails to respect the distinction between phenomenal consciousness and mere awareness (in the uncontroversial sense of detection) of environmental or bodily events.

Thus the proprioception which constitutes consciousness, as distinguished from mere awareness, is a higher order awareness, a perception of one part of (or configuration in) our brain by the brain itself.

Spirituality is not mere higher consciousness, it is not mere worship, and it is not mere remembering God.

Yet the revolution in question is no mere change in consciousness or shift in media but the actual attempt to overthrow an existing government — and it's no dinner party but a serious war, conducted by an alternate and well-organized state with a high-tech army to rival that of the tyranny being confronted.

His description of looking into the "no agenda" eyes of his first-born has a gorgeous redemptive symmetry, as if life could be parsed like a poem: "Mere being, pure consciousness, the observing self that I'd always been trying to catch, was staring back at me".