"In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social."
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"The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God."
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"Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance."
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"The consciousness that says 'I am' is not the consciousness that thinks."
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"I told myself – as I’ve told myself before – that the body shuts down when the pain gets too bad, that consciousness is temporary, that this will pass. But just like always, I didn’t slip away. I was left on the shore with the waves washing over me, unable to drown."
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"Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness."
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"There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it."
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"As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself."
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"This was exactly what the girl had most dreaded all her life and had scrupulously avoided until now: lovemaking without emotion or love. She knew that she had crossed the forbidden boundary, but she proceeded across it without objections and as a full participant; only somewhere, far off in a corner of her consciousness, did she feel horror at the thought that she had never known such pleasure, never so much pleasure as at this moment--beyond that boundary."
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"All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness."
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"Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being."
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"Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness."
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"The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant. Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be."
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"There's something in human beings, not all human beings, that is ready for the change in consciousness. It needs to happen now if humanity is not to destroy itself and the planet."
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"Awareness is conscious connection with universal intelligence. Another word for it is Presence: consciousness without thought."
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"The planet will not survive another hundred years of the same state of consciousness that produced the external effects of recent history."
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"Your awareness has its source in unity. Instead of seeking outside yourself, go to the source to realize who you are."
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"An endangered planet may depend on the evolution of consciousness."
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"For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream."
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"It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer."
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