"The consciousness of life is higher than life."
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"Although your mind works, your heart is darkened with depravity; and without a pure heart there can be no complete and true consciousness"
"What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love."
"On with the dance, let the joy be unconfined."
"A pale reflection of myself wavers in my consciousness...and suddenly the “I” pales, pales, and fades out."
"The goal is to know how not-to-know."
"Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean."
"Evil is an extreme manifestation of human unconsciousness."
"Not what you do, but how you do what you do determines whether you are fulfilling your destiny. And how you do what you do is determined by your state of consciousness."
"If the price of peace were a lowering of your consciousness, and the price of stillness a lack of vitality and alertness, then they would not be worth having."
"Nations consist of individuals. It is for every individual to bring in a different quality - the quality of awakened consciousness - into their lives."
"You are not what happens in your life. You are the space in which it happens, which is consciousness itself."
"There are many things that are still uncertain and that probably nobody knows, because so many factors determine what form the transformation of consciousness on our planet takes."
"When you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself as the witness of the thought. A new dimension of consciousness has come in."
"Awareness of the inner body is consciousness remembering its origin and returning to the Source."
"Oprah [Winfrey] and I share a similar consciousness of spirit that is manifested in what some may call God or simply Spirit but others call it the Godhead manifestation of karmic virtue."
"The evolutionary impulse is towards disidentification from thinking and the arising of awareness or presence, but the gravitational pull of the old consciousness, or rather unconsciousness, is still quite heavy. It's been around for thousands of years."
"For most people on the planet, consciousness can be equated with thought. They haven't experienced what it means to be conscious without thought, or they have only for very brief instants."
"In the face of death, especially violent death, things don't make sense anymore. So death is the dissolution of either physical form or psychological form. And when a form dissolves, always something shines through that had been obscured by the form. This is the formless One Life, the formless One Consciousness."
"The animals certainly like to be close to humans, especially as humans go through the shift in consciousness."