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"Man thinks many things. He thinks he is One. He is usually several. Until he becomes One, he cannot have a fair idea of what he is at all."
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"Spiritual dating requires you both to have the ability to stay present in the moment and expand together."

"What is seen by mind, is an environmental image that projected by public consciousness in vicinity."

"Consciousness ain't slower than a blink of an eye."

"And what agony, thought Krug the thinker, to love so madly a little creature, formed in some mysterious fashion (even more mysterious to us than it had been to the very first thinkers in their pale olive gloves) by the fusion of two mysteries, or rather two sets of a trillion of mysteries each; formed by a fusion which is, at the same time, a matter of choice and a matter of chance and a matter of pure enchantment; thus formed and then permitted to accumulate trillions of its own mysteries; the whole suffused with consciousness, which is the only real thing in the world and the greatest mystery of all."

"It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness."

"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!"

"The smallest component of the human molecule is a vibration - the equivalent to a musical note. Taking the time to learn more self-awareness at this level creates life experiences beyond that of all the greatest symphonies ever heard."

"It takes a certain level of consciousness to 'want' to grow your consciousness."

"One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes' argument "I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is never united directly to consciousness. One can even imagine a pure and self-aware consciousness which thinks of itself as impersonal spontaneity."
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"Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions."


"From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying:'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment."


"If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken."


"Has it not occurred to you that, conversely, other people do not have your difficulties because they do not react as you do to what happens?"
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