"Whether consciousness is implanted in us by something divine, or whether it is created by the efforts of our brains, the end result is the same. We are."

Existence, Consciousness, Being, Philosophy

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"Whether consciousness is implanted in us by something divine, or whether it is created by the efforts of our brains, the end result is the same. We are."

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"In an unfathomable expanse of universe supporting galaxies of star systems with orbiting planets innumerable, I am nothing. And yet to the few bodies encircling my tiny little spot in the world, I am essential."

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"One moment you are here, othere there, then there. Then you can't move!"

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"Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it."

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"Life is not a discrete phenomenon it is a part of an intelligent cosmic field. It is a cosmic dance."

Amit Ray, Indian Author

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"The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"We are born more dead than when we die after we have searched death through the storm of the instants of our entire life."

Sorin Cerin, Romanian Philosopher

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"Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is myself, / And whether I come to my own to-day or in ten thousand or ten / million years, / I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"The human emotions are worthy of nothing when our existence has no realistic value."

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"The being that I shall be after death has no more reason to remember the man I have been since my birth than the latter to remember what I was before it."

Marcel Proust, French Author

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"Please give me a single reason why I shouldn't hurl myself beneath the wheels of that bus."

Despair

"There is nothing to fear but fear itself," the captain announces from the helm, "and the occasional man-eating monster."

Humor

"When he touches a wall the ooze grows thicker, drawn to his and as if he's become a gravity well for the darkness - and it occurs to me that the dark must be in love with the light. Yet one must always kill the other."

Darkness

"The fear of not living is a deep, abiding dread of watching your own potential decompose into irredeemable disappointment when 'should be' gets crushed by what is."

Potential

"One thing yo learn when you've lived as long as I have-people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I'm pleased to be in the light."

Morality

"The accountant lingers at his children's doorway a moment more, listening to the easy rhythm of their breathing, and something cold moves through him, like the passage of a ghost - but he know that's not it. It's more like the portent of a future. A future that must never come to pass......and for the first time, he gives rise to a thought that is silently echoed in millions of homes that night. My God... what have we done?"

Future

"I can't destroy things so beautiful.""Time will destroy them if you don't. Time destroys everything. But if you destroy them, it will mean something."

Reflection

"Hope in the shadow of fear is the world's most powerful motivator."

Motivation

"How do you judge the brightness of a light when you're the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts."

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"We'll never be ready. So I guess that means we're as ready as we'll ever be."

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