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• Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.

  Rollo May

  Creative, Intensity, Ecstasy

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.48, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Consciousness comes first; it is the ground of all being. Everything else, including matter, is a possibility of consciousness. And consciousness chooses out of these possibilities all the events we experience.

  Amit Goswami

  Events, Matter, Firsts

  Amit Goswami (2011). “The Quantum Doctor: A Quantum Physicist Explains the Healing Power of Integral Medicine”, p.3, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• As long as you wish to separate yourself from the immortal consciousness, you will suffer. You will experience the pain of the separation, the abridgment of infinite mind in finite form.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Long, Suffering

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• All incarnations are lived at once, and yet there does seem to be a linear sense of time when you're in the vortex of time and space, when your consciousness is fixated in a body.

  Frederick Lenz

  Science, Space, Doe

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• We must be able to let things happen in the psyche. For us, this becomes a real art... Consciousness is forever interfering, helping, correcting, and negating, never leaving the single growth of the psychic processes in peace.

  Carl Jung

  Art, Real, Psychics

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• One thing that blocks flow is self-consciousness.

  Ariel Gore

  Block, Self, Flow

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• All great work artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual is produced at those moments when creators forget themselves altogether and are free from self-consciousness.

  Walpola Rahula

  Spiritual, Self, Intellectual

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• A witnessing consciousness lives in life but with tremendous non-attachment, with great non-possessiveness; it possesses nothing. It lives totally, it lives passionately, but still knowing that I don't possess anything.

  Rajneesh

  Attachment, Knowing, Possessiveness

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• Remember that your perception of the world is a reflection of your state of consciousness. You are not separate from it, and there is no objective world out there. Every moment,
  your consciousness creates the world that you inhabit.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Reflection, Perception, World

  Eckhart Tolle (2004). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.198, New World Library

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• Do not think of yourself as the body, but as the joyous consciousness and immortal life behind it.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Thinking, Body, Immortal Life

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• When you wake up to the Divine Consciousness within you and your divine identity, you wake up simultaneously to the Divine Consciousness appearing as all other beings. And this is not poetry and this is not a feeling, this is a direct experience of the divine light living in and as all other beings. And until this realization is firm in you, you do not know who or where you are.

  Andrew Harvey

  Light, Feelings, Identity

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Mindfulness is Buddha's word for meditation. By mindfulness he means: you should always remain alert, watchful. You should always remain present. Not a single thing should be done in a sort of sleepy state of mind. You should not move like a somnambulist, you should move with a sharp consciousness.

  Rajneesh

  Buddhist, Moving, Mean

  Osho, Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Yoga Rabiya (Ma.), Ananda Vandana (Ma.), Prem Pankaja (Ma.) (1978). “The Discipline of Transcendence: Discourses on the Forty-two Sutras of Buddha”

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• Nothing that can be known has existence in itself. It depends on a knower. The knower is consciousness.

  Jean Klein

  Awareness, Existence, Depends

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• There is one unity, unified wholeness, total natural law, in the transcendental unified consciousness.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Law, Unity, Transcendental

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• Silence is helpful, but you don't need it in order to find stillness. Even when there is noise, you can be aware of the stillness underneath the noise, of the space in which the noise arises. That is the inner space of pure awareness, consciousness itself.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Order, Space, Silence

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.6, New World Library

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• You are not the body. You are the immensity and infinity of consciousness.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Body, Infinity, Immensity

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• Moods are in the mind and do not matter. Go within, go beyond. Cease being fascinated by the content of your consciousness. When you reach the deep layers of your true being, you will find that the mind's surface-play affects you very little.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Play, Mind, Littles

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• Behaviour arises from the level of one's consciousness.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Behaviour, Levels, Arise

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• Consciousness is an attribute while awareness is not; one can be aware of being conscious, but not conscious of awareness. God is the totality of consciousness, but awareness is beyond all--being as well as not-being.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Awareness, Attributes, Wells

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• That's what I call meditation. You simply stand aloof and just see the mind disappearing, like a cloud on a faraway horizon, leaving the sky clean and pure. And in that state arises your consciousness in its full glory, in its full celebration.

  Rajneesh

  Clouds, Sky, Meditation

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• After all, if it comes to that, there is really neither Ogun nor Jesus! There are only mystified forms of our consciousness.

  Lewis Nkosi

  God, Jesus, Form

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