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"When your inner mantra becomes 'How may I serve?' rather than 'What am I going to get?' and 'Who do I need to defeat?,' you start to see the unfolding of God in everything and everyone around you and you shift into higher consciousness."
"You came here with something to do. You are part of a universal consciousness, and there are no accidents in it. In your true essence - not the false self, not the ego part of you, but in the true essence of who you are - you are infinite and you have something very profound to accomplish while you're here. Otherwise you wouldn't be here."
"The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other."
"Man must get away from verbal forms to attain the consciousness, that which is there to be perceived at hand."
"In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present."
"True compassion arises out of the plane of consciousness where I AM you."
"It wasn't until after I'd been around Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley and Alan Watts, that I started to reflect about issues like the evolution of consciousness."
"Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness."
"That's basically what I have people do, I have them become aware. Once you set a goal, once you become aware of something, it becomes part of your consciousness."
"all the categories which we employ to describe conscious mental acts, such as ideas, purposes, resolutions, and so on, can be applied tothese latent states."
"One can see light above the head; that indicates a consciousness outside the body. But that itself is not the Truth-Consciousness or Vijnana. But much light descending from there illumines this consciousness."
"While doing sadhana you must quieten your mind and keep awake the Purusha consciousness behind all your activities."
"What we do and what we experience has a direct correlation with our habitual states of consciousness and mental states. The more spiritually aware we are, the more harmonious and fulfilling are our lives."
"Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act."
"Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, a four-volume work so dense that its readers were evenly divided between those who understood it and thought it was brilliant and those who did not understand it and thought it was brilliant."
"There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action."
"The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes."
"So it's really a process of actually having a realization of God, which all becomes clear with the expanded state of consciousness that develops when you chant."
"Krishna is God, and by chanting His Holy Names, the devotee quickly develops God-consciousness."
"Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness."
