"Who can live with this Consciousness and not wake frightened at sunrise?"
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"What would it be like to communicate from a part of your own self that is absolutely free from self-consciousness, that is fearless, uncorrupted, and passionately interested in the truth?."
"The animal lacks both anxiety and hope because its consciousness is restricted to what is clearly evident and thus to the present moment: the animal is the present incarnate."
"Francisco could do anything he undertook, he could do it better than anyone else, and he did it without effort. There was no boasting in his manner and consciousness, no thought of comparison. His attitude was not: 'I can do it better than you,' but simply: 'I can do it.' What he meant by doing was doing superlatively."
"Courage and confidence are practical necessities . . . courage is the practical form of being true to existence, of being true to truth, and confidence is the practical form of being true to one’s own consciousness."
"Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification."
"So many of us have separated ourselves from our source and have lived on ego consciousness."
"There is but one indefectibly certain truth , and that is the truth that pyrrhonistic scepticism itself leaves standing, the truth that the present phenomenon of consciousness exists."
"The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole."
"We are setting out to create new worlds, new beings, new modes of consciousness."
"A person influenced by circumstances can become viciously envious or affectionately kind. Our company and our surroundings have a crucial effect on our consciousness. How important it is to be an instrument to bring out the inherent good of each other rather than the worst."
"Simply performing devotional activities will not impart devotion to others but our consciousness should be absorbed."
"When you advance in Krishna Consciousness it is more difficult to tolerate being honored than to tolerate being dishonored."
"Materialism is the consciousness of wanting to exploit and enjoy."
"No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong."
"All my life I have been a poor go-to-sleeper. No matter how great my weariness, the wrench of parting with consciousness is unspeakably repulsive to me."
"The deadliest sin were the consciousness of no sin"
"Consciousness is, among other things, a spontaneous exercise in creativity."
"Each individual has to know himself. He has to know himself as the infinite, eternal and immortal Consciousness."
"God is the Supreme Musician. It is He who is playing with us, on us and in us. We cannot separate God from His music. The universal Consciousness is constantly being played by the Supreme Himself, and is constantly growing into the Supreme Music."