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"The higher consciousness feel the most pain because they search for the darkness in order to bring it to the light and thus feel the most pleasure."
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"Writing when perched along a ledge of conscious awareness while simultaneously giving voice to the unconscious voice tumbling within allows a writer to tap into the external world of the known while also exploring the unconscious world of the unknown and the unknowable. For as long as I can stand the mounting pressure, I dance along this tremulous thin line separating sanity and insanity, mediating the conflicts between a lucid intellect and an impulsive, instinctual nature. Captivated in this submerged psyche space, disengaged from conscious tether of personal identity, and free from the jaundiced constraints and dictatorial commands of rational logic, I operate unencumbered by preconceived limitations."

"Consciousness is a born hermit."

"When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, your memory of last night, and the noises from the road, you are falling asleep. The highly selective consciousness enjoyed by fully alert men, with all its builded sentiments and consecrated ideals, has as much to be called real as the drowsy chaos, and more."

"Peace and love are just as contagious as anger and fear. Your mindset affects the people around you and perpetually changes the world. The question is - what kind of world are you creating? What new society are you thinking into existence?"

"You are not the body, you are not the mind - you are the observer."

"The self, when confined into the usual wakeful state of consciousness, is human, but when enters into the transcendental state of Absolute Oneness, becomes God."

"When I tried to understand consciousness, I found out how simple it was, but we try to make it so complicated."

"All states of consciousness, no matter how mystical, ecstatic or divine, are gloriously born through the protoplasmic activity of the brain."

"Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart."
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"How do we change the world is the wrong question to ask or try to answer. We are never stagnant just and neither is the world. It's changing every moment of every day. The real question is how do we develop it."

"If my mind was in your body going through the same circumstances. I would act differently, and likewise. Judging in nature is separation."

"Consciousness of the world itself is nature. And when you destroy nature you block off consciousness from the world."

"If you don't think the wheel should be reinvented then you are suffering from the lack of creative imagination."

"The moment that we are aware of our thoughts we are present. It takes no-mind to recognize our thoughts because mind and no-mind can not co-existPresence and Mind can not co-exist. So therefor presence, thought awareness and no-mind are one."

"Don't let your imperfections conveniently excuse you from having discipline. Have the courage to work through your imperfections."

"Act with though awareness and love in the present moment then you will never need to worry about the thought of regret."
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