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"There is no reality except the one contained within us."
"From all aspects of human perception, you truly are your brain."
"Latent brain functions can be enabled by force majeure when we are facing the weirdness of an unknown reality."
"Observing the stream of eternal and simple truth is the same for all who look upon the fountainhead of consciousness."
"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?"
"Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?"
"The level of consciousness determines the deepness of thoughts and the awareness of the beauty of life."
"The programming of the consciousness is based upon what is accepted or believed."
"The pinnacle of human consciousness must be the rejection of unhealthy competition, war and violence."
"It's not the world that needs to change - it's our consciousness we must raise."
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"Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator."
"When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?"
"I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time."
"At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment. The people who were doing the greatest work were despised as lower class, with no dignity accorded to what they did."
"I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made."
"When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating."
"In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this."
"I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms."
"Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it."
"The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectification. It's carried to the point where the human subject is treated almost as if it's dirt in the works of a watch."
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