Consciousness is a much smaller part of our mental life than we are conscious of, because we cannot be conscious of what we are not conscious of.

Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world. It is built up with a vocabulary or lexical field whose terms are all metaphors or analogs of behavior in the physical world.

Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets.

Indeed, it is sometimes almost as if the problem had to be forgotten to be solved.

We can only know in the nervous system what we have known in behavior first.

Consciousness is always open to many possibilities because it involves play. It is always an adventure.

The mind is still haunted with its old unconscious ways; it broods on lost authorities; and the yearning, the deep and hollowing yearning for divine volition and service is with us still.

The importance of writing in the breakdown of the bicameral voices is tremendously important. What had to be spoken is now silent and carved upon a stone to be taken in visually.

I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.

There is no such thing as a complete consciousness.

The king dead is a living god.

There lives a man, who is too small for his own brain." ‪#‎iampm‬

The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.

If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of rights and condemned to slave labor.

Tantric Buddhism means that we become mature adults and we learn the reality of chaos theory.

To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue.

If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work.

You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.

Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice.

It's still the best game in town because you don't have to be big to play, and everybody plays. Even your grandmother probably played baseball.

My heart is definitely here, and there's no place like home.