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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Consciousness

"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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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
Consciousness

"The seat of faith, however, is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God."

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Arthur Schopenhauer Philosopher
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."

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Consciousness

"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."

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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Spiritual Leader
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"

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Rollo May Psychologist, Author
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."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Consciousness

"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."

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