"The ultimate gift of conscious life is a sense of the mystery that encompasses it."
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"I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease."
"What the future holds for you depends on your state of consciousness now."
"An ancient Vedic aphorism says, "Infinite flexibility is the secret to immortality." When we cultivate flexibility in or consciousness, we renew ourselves in every moment and reverse the aging process."
"Those who are pure in heart achieve God-consciousness; they are truly and actually aware of God at the center of their being (their heart). These sanctified individuals are said to be Possessors of the Heart."
"My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious."
"Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity."
"Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy."
"I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive. An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there."
"The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness."
"In meditation...the power of God begins to reflect in the clear waters of your consciousness."
"That which you do not bring to consciousness comes to you as your Fate, that which you do bring to consciousness, whether it was what you thought you wanted or not, is your destiny."
"Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness."
"The sense of wellbeing! Its often with us When we are young, but then it's not noticed; And by the time one has grown to consciousness It comes less often."
"I sort of see [cannabis] as the pilot light of Gian consciousness."
"Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself."
"Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own."
"Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united."
"Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being."
"The game is not set. There are so many layers that it is being perceived on. As your own consciousness becomes more refined, the game changes."