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  Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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• Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Beauty, Sex

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.145, Cambridge University Press

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• There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things.

  Mike Leigh

  Awareness, Constant

  "Mike Leigh at the NFT". Interview with Derek Malcolm, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2002.

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• Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.

  Jasper Johns

  Mind, Intention, Fragments

  Kirk Varnedoe, Jasper Johns (1996). “Jasper Johns: A Retrospective”

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• There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Love, Life, Wings

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1961, Delphi Classics

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• His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Literature, Firsts, Sin

  F. Scott Fitzgerald “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (Unabridged): A Tale of the Jazz Age by the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, e-artnow

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• Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.23, New World Library

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• The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another acre or so of being worth our venturing upon.

  Guy Davenport

  Perception, World, Acres

  Guy Davenport (1997). “The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays”, p.192, David R. Godine Publisher

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• People have moments of consciousness and epiphanies throughout their lives, but then suppress the realization.

  Bryant H. McGill

  People, Realization, Moments

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• Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Viktor E Frankl (2012). “The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy”, p.48, Souvenir Press

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• In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other. That time is now.

  Wangari Maathai

  Leadership, Peace, Thinking

  Wangari Maathai's Nobel lecture at the City Hall in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.

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• We are completely unaware of our true nature because we identify ourselves with our body, our emotions and our thoughts, thus losing sight of our unchanging centre, which is pure consciousness. When we return to our true nature, our thoughts and perceptions no longer appear as modifications of a single substance, they come into being and subside like waves of the ocean.

  Jean Klein

  Spiritual, Ocean, Sight

  Jean Klein (2015). “Be Who You Are”, p.16, New Harbinger Publications

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• This universe is formed out of both consciousness forces and matter. While the study of matter has been the domain of traditional science, the study of consciousness is the science of spirituality.

  Shriram Sharma

  God, Spiritual, Soul

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• God is the Soul of all souls - The Supreme Soul - The Supreme Consciousness.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  God, Spiritual, Soul

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• In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Prayer, Self, Surrender

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.342, Macmillan

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• When one past thought has ceased and a future thought has not yet risen,
  in that gap, in between, isn't there a consciousness of the present moment;
  fresh, virgin, unaltered by even a hair's breadth of a concept, a luminous, naked awareness?
  Well, that's what naturally peaceful awareness is.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Past, Hair, Meditation

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• If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness.

  Albert Bandura

  Philosophy, Educational, Self

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• An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This makes life lovely and lively.

  Julia Cameron

  Writing, Love Life, Creativity

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• The ultimate Consciousness is always present everywhere. It is beyond space and time, with not before or after. It is undeniable and obvious. So what can be said about it?

  Abhinavagupta

  Garden, Space, Said

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• All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to them which lifted them to performances far better than they could reach at other times.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Light, Alcohol, Rare Moments

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• Fear is nothing more than a mental monster you have created, a negative stream of consciousness

  Robin Sharma

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  Robin Sharma (2003). “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny”, p.82, Jaico Publishing House

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• The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Sublime, Brain, Notes

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• Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

  William Hazlitt

  Death, Dying, Vain

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.171, Delphi Classics

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• Every single person has within an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness. Every single human being can experience that - infinite intelligence, infinite creativity, infinite happiness, infinite energy, infinite dynamic peace.

  David Lynch

  Fun, Ocean, Creativity

  "The Visionary". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. November 21, 2008.

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• If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution.

  M. Scott Peck

  Spiritual, Pain, Goal

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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