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If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application.

If the Internet can be described as a giant human consciousness, then viral marketing is the illusion of free will.

If typography is calling attention to itself, it's taking that attention away from what the words are saying.

If we are in a high enough state of consciousness we see that life is only a passing dream.

If we don't have historical consciousness we can't really understand problems in all their dimensions, and if we can't understand problems than we can't find solutions.

If the best the roboticists can hope for is the creation of some crude, cheesy, second-rate, artificial consciousness, they still win.

If you accept that a relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy, then the relationship will offer you salvation, and you will be aligning yourself with the higher consciousness that wants to be born into this world.

If we hope to live not just from moment to moment, but in true consciousness of our existence, then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives.

If the price of peace were a lowering of your consciousness, and the price of stillness a lack of vitality and alertness, then they would not be worth having.

If you didn’t have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn’t be morality but with consciousness that you have it.

If you are in a country that is progressive, the woman is progressive. If you're in a country that reflects the consciousness toward the importance of education, it's because the woman is aware of the importance of education. But in every backward country you'll find the women are backward, and in every country where education is not stressed its because the women don't have education.

If you have more than three priorities then you don't have any.

If you really know how to ask the question 'Who am I?' you will inevitably be delivered into that state of silence and pure consciousness that is your true Being. The question 'Who am I?' will ultimately deliver you into the 'I am' of you.

If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.

If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.

If you completely accept something, it changes. If you completely accept it, it shifts.

If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.

I had vainly been seeking a description of consciousness within science; instead, what I and others have to look for is a description of science within consciousness. We must develop a science compatible with consciousness, our primary experience.

If you were in a perfected state of consciousness, you would only see perfection in all things.

I have a much easier time imagining how we would understand the big bang, even though we can't do it yet, than I can imagine understanding consciousness.

If Zen has any preference it is for glass that is plain, has no color, and is "just glass.

I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves… I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.

I have been accused of denying consciousness but I am not conscious of having done so.

I have gone from “being” my experience to being infinite consciousness having the experience and observing the experience.

I have found that long durational art is really the key to changing consciousness. On such a deep level. Not just the performer, but the one looking at it.

I just try to bring a kind of consciousness to the work I'm doing. I'll worry about the next job when I have the next job. There are a lot worse things than being known for a certain kind of specificity. You'll get calls for that thing. And that's better than not getting any calls at all.

I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all projections of the universal principles of creation/destruction polarities of the same infinite consciousness that we call God.

Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.

Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.

I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.

Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.

I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as human history.

I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.

I'm a recovering drug addict, so it's not a subject that I take lightly, but I do agree that the criminalization of narcotics is the deliberate inhibition of human consciousness.

I'm suddenly finding it hard to know the difference between nightmares and consciousness.

In a certain sense a writer is 'selected' by his subject - his subject being the consciousness of his own era.

Increasing consciousness = increasing complexity.

Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them.

In aesthetic consciousness we enter that painless state, prized by Epicurus as the state of the gods; for a moment we are delivered from the miserable pressure of the will. We celebrate the Sabbath from the penal servitude of willing; the wheel of Ixion stands still.

In a sense, what's happening is that the unconscious mind is a luxury the human species cannot afford at this point in our dilemma, and so the unconscious mind is simply rising into consciousness by being hardwired into this global infrastructure.

In consciousness dwells the wondrous, with it man attains the realm beyond the material, and the Peyote tells us, where to find it.

Individual consciousness is just sickness.

In dream consciousness we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator.

I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

In meditation...the power of God begins to reflect in the clear waters of your consciousness.

In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.

Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you.

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

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