Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
Gaston BachelardRead
In our view any awareness is an increment to consciousness, an added light, a reinforcement of psychic coherence. Its swiftness or instantaneity can hide this growth from us. But there is a growth of being in every instance of awareness. Consciousness is in itself an act, the human act.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Awareness enhances our consciousness and contributes to our growth as individuals.
Gaston Bachelard emphasizes that every moment of awareness leads to an elevation of consciousness, representing a continuous growth that may go unnoticed due to its rapidity. He argues that consciousness is an essential human activity, suggesting that our ability to be aware plays a fundamental role in shaping our experience and understanding of existence.
Themes
AwarenessConsciousnessGrowthHuman ExperiencePsychic Coherence
In practice
Example use cases
During a discussion on personal development at a conference, one might say, 'As Bachelard points out, each moment of awareness contributes to our consciousness.'
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