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"The programming of the consciousness is based upon what is accepted or believed."
"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?"
"In a country of ideas, consciousness is its' citizen."
"Like the spider spinning its web, we create much of the outer world from within ourselves. The universe is a joint product of the observer and the observed."
"Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?"
"It has been said that poise is our highest state of consciousness. It reflects your presence, composure, balance, gratitude, discretion, and self-respect. Whether a man or a woman, a poised person carries within themselves an elegant air of dignity and grace. Their personal brand is polished and purposeful."
"It's not the world that needs to change - it's our consciousness we must raise."
"The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness."
"Universal consciousness can never die, it can only transform and transcend."
"There's no consciousness without senses and memories."
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"Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten."
"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."
"When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music."
"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?"
"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."
"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."
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