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"In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah."
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"We can tell a lot about a creature's level of consciousness by understanding their perception of death."

"The universe perceives itself through us, or to be more specific, through our neurons."

"Consciousness is a magic of our brain and an illusion of our mind."

"Various fascinating psychological elements are involved in the transcendental state of human consciousness. One may lose the ability to distinguish one's self from the rest of the world in transcendence, but still it is the human brain that constructs that state of mind. Hence, even in that altered state of consciousness one is not totally devoid of one's beliefs, conjectures, ideas and fantasies. In fact, these ideas fill up the transcendental experience with all kinds of fanatic stories that happen to be unique, based on the person's inner urges and drives."

"When I tried to understand consciousness, I found out how simple it was, but we try to make it so complicated."

"Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?"

"In your usual state of consciousness, there is a separate quale experience of everything you observe. But when you transcend into the domain of absolute divinity, all your qualia get mixed up."

"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."

"My experience of that liberation, what Buddha had called Nirvana, set me off in the path of scientific investigation of that Oneness, the thing people call, meeting with God. And that meeting triggered an unquenchable thirst in me to develop a proper scientific method to understand and further explore that apparently bizarre domain of Universal Consciousness."

"The spark of consciousness is reflected in the river, where a dance of infinite faces lined in profane lights."
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"We'll have these people hang out with us while we're doing our touring, and talk to them and let them speak their piece to the world."

"Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet."

"But then when he left, I realized that it was harder to write songs and feel spiritually connected to art and music as a band. When he came back I felt it again, instantaneously."

"I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction."

"You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me."

"I would consider him definitely one of my very best friends and I know he feels the same about me. We have a lot of love and respect."

"We've just learned how to balance ourselves a little better so that we're happier way more of the time than not, and, you know, being happy is a radical and desirable act if you ask me."

"We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill."

"It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people."
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