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“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges and come up with elegant solutions. [...] It's not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep. [...] You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.”

“Purity means lack of hatred, jealousy, fear, greed and lust - the absence of anything that can stain consciousness.”

Mean Consciousness Buddhism Hatred Greed Absence Lust Purity Stains

Author:Frederick Lenz

“After long absence, of return / To my dear home - Oh, happiness! / To lie in blissful consciousness / Of all around: The picture there - / The books - the flower-glass filled with care / By a kind hand - And then to know, / 'Twas but to rise, and meet below / Such a heart's welcome!”

Knows Heart Kind Long Book Home Hands Care Lying Consciousness Flower Return Filled Dear Glasses Absence Welcome Coming Home

Book:The birth-day; a poem: to which are added, occasional verses

Source: The birth-day; a poem: to which are added, occasional verses

“If psychedelics are, on any level, to be taken seriously as catalyzers or expanders of consciousness, then we need them, because it's an absence of consciousness that is making this historical transition so excruciating.”

Ifs Needs Levels Consciousness Taken Historical Absence Transition

Author:Terence McKenna

“The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a yearless than that of her male counterpart meant there was a hole in the consciousness of the committee that empathy, however welcome, could not entirely fill.”

Consciousness Five Thousand Empathy Prejudice Dollars Males Privilege Absence Holes Welcome Sexism Pregnant Committees Salary Counterparts

Book:Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

Source: Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

“We have good reason to believe that memories of early childhood do not persist in consciousness because of the absence or fragmentary character of language covering this period. Words serve as fixatives for mental images. . . . Even at the end of the second year of life when word tags exist for a number of objects in the child's life, these words are discrete and do not yet bind together the parts of an experience or organize them in a way that can produce a coherent memory.”

Source: The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood

“The excitement of theatre is palpable but the frustrations, and the complete absence of a definitive evening - the play as text means practically nothing in a way - , there's no particular performance that is definitive in the way a novel is a solid object you hold in your hands and here it is. You can't say that about a play. If the novel gives us a sense of throbbing consciousness, theater is pure soul, beautiful and elusive.”

Ifs Way Giving Mean Soul Play Hands Beautiful Consciousness Novel Objects Particular Pure Performances Theater Theatre Absence Evening Excitement Frustration Elusive Pure Soul

Author:Don DeLillo

“Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness”

World Consciousness Crisis Absence Our World Mind Blowing Psychedelic Experience Dmt

Author:Terence McKenna

“I do not think that the government, under the guise of some phony, alarmist, pseudo-scientific rhetoric, should attempt to control the evolution of consciousness. After all, if these things truly are consciousness-expanding, it doesn't take too much intelligence to realize that it is the absence of consciousness that is causing our flirtation with extinction and planetary disaster.”

Ifs Thinking Should Government Realizing Consciousness Too Much Evolution Absence Disaster Rhetoric Expanding Extinction Phony Guise Pseudo Flirtation Alarmists Consciousness Expanding

Author:Terence McKenna