Consciousness (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠necessarily perceptual, even the consciousness of ourselves.

Consciousness (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not what defines my existence. My existence does not come from my physical, psychical, and social environment, rather it goes toward them and sustains them.

Consciousness (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠reducible to neither empiricism nor intellectualism. Empiricism cannot see that we need to know what we are looking for (otherwise we would not be looking for it) and intellectualism fails to see that we need to be ignorant of what we are looking for (or equally again we should not be searching).

Consciousness (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠being neither here nor there, neither Peter nor Paul. When one is conscious on is in no way distinguishable from an 'other' consciousness, since we are all immediate presences to the world, and since the world is, by definition, unique, being the system of truths.

Consciousness (n.) gives ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠itself over completely to the object I contemplate. As I contemplate the blue of the sky, I am not set over against the sky as an a-cosmic subject. I abandon myself to it, plunge into this mystery, it 'thinks itself within me,' I am the sky itself as it is drawn together and unified, and as it begins to exist for itself... my consciousness is saturated with this limitless blue.

Consciousness (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the state wherein I am neither here nor there, neither peter nor paul, I am in no way distinguishable from an 'other' consciousness and am in fact nothing other than immediate presence to the world.

Consciousness (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠unable to be defined formally in terms of self-knowledge or representation, then, but is essentially engaged in the structures and actions of the human world and encompasses all of the diverse intentional orientations of human life.

Phenomenology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the study of essences (of perceptions and of consciousness), whereby essence refers not to some impenetrable core that defines thing, but to the kind of mist like, indeterminate essence of a spritz of perfume.

Phenomenology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠'the study of essences', all problems amount to finding definitions of essences, the essence of perception, the essence of consciousness.

Phenomenology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a manner or style of thinking concerned with giving a direct description of our experience as it is, without taking into account its psychological genesis or causal explanations (as a historian or psychologist would).

Phenomenology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a manner or style of thinking.

Phenomenology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a reflection of science itself. Though it seems pre-scientific it could not have arisen before the emergence of science.

Phenomenology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a sytle of thinking about existence that does not derive it from antecedents or physical and social environment, but which goes toward antecedents or environment and sustains them. It concerns myself as the absolute source rather than as a living being, a human being, or a conscious being.

Phenomenology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠an account of 'lived' space, 'lived' time, and the 'lived' world. It tries to give a direct description of our experience as it is.

Phenomenology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠concerned not with the 'living being' or even a 'human' or 'a conscious', but with myself as the absolute source : As an existence that does not come from my antecedents or physical and social environment, but goes toward them and sustains them.

Phenomenology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠concerned with giving a direct description without taking into account its psychological genesis or causal explanations.

Phenomenology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠if only a myth, then still representative of a manner or style of thinking that existed as a movement before arriving at complete consciousness itself as a philosophy.

Phenomenology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠less the feeling of encountering a new philosophy than of recognizing what one was waiting for.

Phenomenology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not the encountering of something new, but rather, the recognizing of what we were waiting for.

Phenomenology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠was a movement before becoming a philosophical system, this was attributable neither to accident nor to fraud, but to the painstaking works of balzac, proust, valery, or cezanne.

Phenomenology (n.) remains ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠faithful to its intention by never knowing where it is going. The 'unfinished nature of phenomenology' is inevitable to its task.

Phenomenological reduction (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠impossible to do all the way but we can relax the ties that bind us to thing so that the sheer strangeness of the world becomes more apparent.

Phenomenological reduction (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠'wonder before the world.'.

The Phenomenological reduction (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a method whose most important lesson is the impossibility of a complete reduction; the essentially incomplete character of every act of reflection.