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The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness.

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.

If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.

I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.

Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth.

Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.

Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.

Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony.

Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.

Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.

At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.

And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it.

Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

Malcolm X raised my consciousness about myself and my people and other people more than any person I know. I knew him before he became Malcolm X.

To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.

Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make up the unity of one continuous consciousness of one and the same object.