"Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself."
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"Time can also be a place.... Everything depends on where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself."
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"The greatest thing anyone can give humanity is God consciousness."
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"The consciousness of having discharged that duty which we owe to our country is superior to all other considerations."
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"We bless and curse ourselves."
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"The moment one is on the side of life; peace and security drop out of consciousness. The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment."
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"It's the nature of human consciousness to look for trouble constantly, and we find it. We find it."
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"But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease."
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"Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation."
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"Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness."
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"There is no partial sensitivity; either it is the state of one's whole being, total consciousness or it is not there at all"
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"Yet the fact had no consciousness of itself except through me."
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"...[I am] utterly entranced, at times, with the mere fact that there are other people, and that they experience themselves as the primary center of consciousness just as I do. That fact alone...Well, that fact alone is staggering."
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"In aesthetic consciousness we enter that painless state, prized by Epicurus as the state of the gods; for a moment we are delivered from the miserable pressure of the will. We celebrate the Sabbath from the penal servitude of willing; the wheel of Ixion stands still."
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"The miracle and hope of human consciousness is that we can still conceive of boundlessness."
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"Unity Consciousness is the experience of the 7 billion plus people on the planet being moved by the same force, which is God. It is the awareness to see what we really are: One Living Being. However, this is a truth that really can't be explained with words; the minute you say it, it is no longer truth."
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"The operation of consciousness has created the 'apparition' called 'me'."
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"I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism."
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"Your prosperity consciousness is not dependent on money; your flow of money is dependent upon your prosperity consciousness."
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"What would happen to the individual if all the functions of the body were placed under the control of the consciousness is what would happen to a nation in which all individual activities were directed by government."
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