Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Spiritual Leader
"Shiva is chidambaram, like the inner sky. Shiva is the inner sky of consciousness"
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Consciousness
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Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"Conflict exists strictly as an opportunity to raise our consciousness."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society."
Nhat Hanh
Zen Master, Author
"The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness."
Jerry Garcia
Musician
"What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you're not getting the whole thing that's there to be had."
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"Samsara - our conditioned existence in the perpetual cycle of habitual tendencies and nirvana - genuine freedom from such an existence- are nothing but different manifestations of a basic continuum. So this continuity of consciousness us always present. This is the meaning of tantra."
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"Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom."
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"Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness."
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"Only when you can understand yourself as All Pervading Consciousness can you possibly understand that all the universe is an emanation of your mind. Everything that you see comes out of you."
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"Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness."
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"The Truth is inseparable from who you are. Yes, you are the Truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be deceived every time."
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"Every organism exists as a vehicle for the ennoblement of water into consciousness."
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"When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness."
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"Paradise is a state of consciousness. All you have to do is purify yourself and you automatically arrive."
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"Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to."
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"people are doing the best that they can from their own level of consciousness."
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"The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought."
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"You are the light of consciousness and also the witness of this light. You are pure awareness."
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"...The unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time and not in space. They are only an illusion, time and space, and so in a certain part of our psyche time does not exist at all."
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"Real happiness lies in that which never comes nor goes, but simply is."
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"The word Buddha comes from the Sanskrit word Budh, meaning, to be awake. So Buddha is not a name and ultimately not a person, but a state of consciousness."
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"The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains."
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"You can't destroy the polish national-consciousness or Poles on the battlefield, but if you give them power, they will destroy themselves"
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"We could all be mediums, and all have absolute knowledge, if the bright light of our ego consciousness would not dim it."
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"Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence."
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