"The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first."
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"The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence."
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"In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness."
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"A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence."
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"We can arrive at a point of view where the preservation of the individual activities is no longer inconsistent with our comprehension of the cosmic consciousness or our attainment to the transcendent and supracosmic."
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"One should always be a little improbable."
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"God's all happiness, all bliss, and by chanting His names we connect with Him. So it's really a process of actually having a realization of God, which all becomes clear with the expanded state of consciousness that develops when you chant."
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"I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don't let anyone throw you off."
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"Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh."
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"It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it."
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"What happens is consciousness operates in mysterious ways. One of those ways is that the old paradigm suddenly starts to die."
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"Pure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth."
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"Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true."
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"Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses."
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"Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences."
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"Running is the classical road to self-consciousness, self-awareness, and self-reliance."
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"Both dance and dream are brought into being by the consciousness of a moment. They can never be repeated or successfully imitated. But you can dance and dream again. You must, if life is to continue."
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"The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death."
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"Ultimately, there is no such thing as "my consciousness," but just the one consciousness and to sense your connectedness with the one (I can sense that continuously, which is why I can say that I know this for sure) to sense that connectedness with the one consciousness that pervades the universe, which in some traditions is called God, to sense that frees you of fear, from anxiety, and takes you to a very deep place of peace, but also of heightened aliveness."
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"All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this."
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