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"Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence"
"A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet."
"Our consciousness is our contribution to reality. What we perceive as real, becomes real."
"Consciousness conceives, governs, constructs, and becomes the activity of the body."
"Our essential nature is pure consciousness, the infinite source of everything that exists in the physical world."
""Bhagavad Gita" is an examination of consciousness and the desire of human beings and the quest that we have as human beings to understand ourselves; that it was a map, you might say, for exploring the territory that leads us to find out things about ourselves."
"And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it."
"I think there needs to be a general consciousness raising among consumers. So many consumers aren't aware of the backstory. They see the end product in the supermarket but don't know all the steps that it took to get it there, who helped to get the food there."
"We must see that consciousness is neither an isolated soul nor the mere function of a single nervous system, but of that totality of interrelated stars and galaxies which makes a nervous system possible."
"Recent history is the record of one vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind."
"The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes."
"Spirituality is revival of our God consciousness, not creating something new."
"The more we are happy in Krishna Consciousness, the more we become purified."
"Faith, consciousness, and awareness all exist beyond the thinking mind."
"Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading."
"Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot."
"Consciousness exists beyond your head, between our heads, and it can manifest harmony."
"The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated."
"Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it."
"The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor."
