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Fyodor Dostoevsky Novelist, Philosopher
Consciousness

"Although your mind works, your heart is darkened with depravity; and without a pure heart there can be no complete and true consciousness"

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Consciousness

"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."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
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."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Consciousness

"Nations consist of individuals. It is for every individual to bring in a different quality - the quality of awakened consciousness - into their lives."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Consciousness

"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."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Consciousness

"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."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Consciousness

"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."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Consciousness

"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."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Consciousness

"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."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Consciousness

"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."

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