"As each human being is an integral part of the collective human consciousness, they affect the world much more deeply than is visible on the surface of their lives."
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"My sense of identity broke down and was replaced by something that is very hard to put into words. Awareness, Consciousness."
"Consciousness is nature's nightmare."
"The seat of faith, however, is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God."
"A consciousness of misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct aggravates their bitterness."
"The world consists of images on a screen, and consciousness is the steady light that emanates from the projector."
"The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness."
"The censorship of language is the censorship of consciousness."
"We're all affected by music. It has the power to inspire, uplift us, change our moods, and even alter consciousness."
"Ist es an und fu? r sich absurd, das Nichtsein fu? r einUbel zu ? halten; da jedes Ubel wie jedes Gut das Dasein zur Voraussetzung hat, ja sogar das Bewusstsein. It is in and by itself absurd to regard non-existence as an evil; for every evil, like every good, presupposes existence, indeed even consciousness."
"in the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination."
"It's not about the body; you are consciousness. That's what you are. Your consciousness is already out of your body. You don't need to get out of your body, you just need to get into your consciousness."
"This ancient practice of the Rudrabhishekam, with the chanting of mantras, has been happening since thousands of years. It creates such a deep resonance in our consciousness, because our consciousness is very ancient"
"Art is a form of consciousness."
"Tools and techniques ought to be an extension of consciousness, but they can just as easily be a protection from consciousness. Then the tools become defence mechanisms... against the unconscious."
"You are the vanguard of knowledge and consciousness; a new wave in a vast ocean of possibilities."
"Consciousness is the greatest movie-maker in the whole world."
"To become aware of the subtlety of nature you need to be alert. The moment you become alert you become still... thinking subsides. That is actually a higher state of consciousness than thinking."
"Future success is dependent upon and inseparable from the consciousness out of which the actions emanate"
"Thinking is no more than a tiny aspect of the totality of consciousness, the totality of who you are."