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No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.

The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.

We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.

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

I have a picture of an ideal consciousness.

Life is a state of consciousness.

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.

If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is.

Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness.

If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.

It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation.

Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.

A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm.

Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.

There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.

The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.