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“Relative to the level of awareness that is possible for us, our ordinary state of consciousness is as far from a direct experience of reality as sleep is from waking consciousness.” -- Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson “The thought ‘I exist’ is not the same thing as the awareness of one’s own existence. Thought is not the same thing as consciousness.” -- Jacob Needleman "A person asked Buddha: 'Are you a God?' / Buddha’s reply was 'No' / 'Are you an Angel?'. 'No.' / 'Then what are you?'. 'I am Awake.'" -- Anonymous "The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing." -- Joseph Wood Krutch "Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception." -- Dan Millman "There is in all visible things - a hidden wholeness." -- Thomas Merton "From a hologrammatic viewpoint, you are one little physical image that reflects all of humanity when projected spiritually upon the cosmic screen." -- Wayne Dyer "Unity consciousness is a state of enlightenment where we pierce the mask of illusion which creates separation and fragmentation. Behind the appearance of separation is one unified field of wholeness. Here the seer and the scenery are one." -- Deepak Chopra "To me there is no difference between one person and another; I behold all as soul-reflections of the one God. I can't think of anyone as a stranger, for I know that we are all part of the One Spirit." --  Paramahansa Yogananda "The world we are experiencing today is the result of our collective consciousness, and if we want a new world, each of us must start taking responsibility for helping create it." -- Rosemary Fillmore Rhea "The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival." -- Aristotle "We are not what we know. We are what we are willing to learn." -- Council on Ideas "There are three kinds of people and three kinds of richness: people who want to have, to collect; people who want action, work and labor; people who want to be. The real richness is in be-ness. People can take all that you have, all that you collected. People can stop your labor, or an accident can stop you. When you are, you never lose what you are." -- Torkom Saraydarian "The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself." -- Mark Caine "Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use." -- Charles M. Shultz "Nothing determines who we will become so much as those things we choose to ignore." -- Sandor Mcnab "If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough." -- Oprah Winfrey "The easiest person to deceive is one's self." -- Edward Bulwer Lytton "The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself." -- Anna Quindlen "Remember, it's no use being a Survivor unless you make surviving worth it." -- John Aldermen, a survivor "It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves." -- Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb Mt. Everest "The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become." --  Jim Rohn "Definition of status seeking: buying things you can't afford, that you don't need, to impress people you don't like." -- Anonymous "In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential we embody, and if we do not embody that, life is wasted." -- C.G. Jung