"The word Buddha comes from the Sanskrit word Budh, meaning, to be awake. So Buddha is not a name and ultimately not a person, but a state of consciousness."
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"The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains."
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"You can't destroy the polish national-consciousness or Poles on the battlefield, but if you give them power, they will destroy themselves"
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"We could all be mediums, and all have absolute knowledge, if the bright light of our ego consciousness would not dim it."
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"Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence."
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"His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours."
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"Nature loves simplicity and unity."
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"Consciousness equals energy = love = awareness = light = wisdom = beauty = truth = purity. It's all the same trip."
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"A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in the myth. And since myth is a projection of the depth wisdom of the psyche, by participating in a ritual, participating in the myth, you are being, as it were, put in accord with that wisdom, which is the wisdom that is inherent within you anyhow. Your consciousness is being re-minded of the wisdom of your own life."
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"The job of art is to chase ugliness away."
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"I am conscious of my own limitations. That consciousness is my only strength."
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"The longing for light is the longing for consciousness."
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"Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness"
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"A consciousness of God releases the greatest power of all."
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"The more I learn, the less I realize I know."
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"If you are in a country that is progressive, the woman is progressive. If you're in a country that reflects the consciousness toward the importance of education, it's because the woman is aware of the importance of education. But in every backward country you'll find the women are backward, and in every country where education is not stressed its because the women don't have education."
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"Science can explain what's happening down inside atoms and what's happening at the edge of the universe, but it cannot explain consciousness. It's a paradox--withou t consciousness there would be no science, but science doesn't know what to do, at all, with consciousness."
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"Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking."
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"Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation."
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"All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being."
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