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"The time will come when mankind will begin to get away from the consciousness of needing so many material things. More security and peace will be found in the simple life."
"Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them."
"Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement."
"Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time."
"Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being."
"There is a universal intelligence that we call God or Soul or Spirit or Consciousness, and it is everywhere and in all things."
"We don't settle for anything less than excellence."
"The only Revolution that can really change the world is the one in your own consciousness, and mine has already begun."
"I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota."
"I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness."
"That which we do not bring to consciousness appears in our lives as fate."
"You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge. But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness."
"No problem is ever solved in the same consciousness thas was used to create it."
"Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you."
"A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries."
"Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions."
"I Should Just Stop Tweeting, The Human Consciousness Must Raise Before I Speak My Juvenile Philosophy."
"But there's a shift happening in humanity, a shift in consciousness, happening now because it has to happen now."
"Faith is a never-ending pool of clarity, reaching far beyond the margins of consciousness. We all know more than we know we know."
"It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness."
