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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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"Man can be categorized into three levels on social strata: One who are Consciously Unconscious, second who are Unconsciously Conscious - while both are inter-dependent for their survival; the third by and large a rare breed, Consciously Conscious sect " who don't ever relate to this world!"

"Consciousness is everywhere, let it fill you up."

"Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness."

"That which is capable of perceiving objective reality is, in Sufism, the human soul (ruh)."

"Your fundamental assumption is wrong. You think you are this vehicle. This naked ape. Homo sapiens. I tell you, you are no more human than a driver is the car he is driving. You would never go to a junkyard to look for the driver would you?"

"We are consciousness playing a game with itself to see how it feels."

"Consciousness is a born hermit."

"At each moment, our seemingly objective world emerges from the dancing of consciousness with a single untruth: that there is something out there which is not us."

"He was, however, unable to give much prolonged or continuous thought to anything that evening , or to concentrate on any one idea; and anyway, even if he had been able to, he would not have found his way to a solution of these questions in a conscious manner; now he could only feel. In place of dialectics life had arrived, and in his consciousness something of a wholly different nature must now work towards fruition."

"The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating."
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"The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine."


"The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also."


"At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure."


"The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost."


"In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself."


"As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note."
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