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“In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.”

Individual Consciousness Depends Development Collectives

Book:The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

Source: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

“All liberation depends on the consciousness of servitude, and the emergence of this consciousness is always hampered by the predominance of needs and satisfactions which, to a great extent, have become the individual's own.”

Needs Individual Consciousness Depends Satisfaction Liberation Servitude Emergence

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“... the place we assign to pornography depends on the goals we set for our own consciousness, our own experience.”

Goal Consciousness Depends Pornography

Author:Susan Sontag

“The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.”

Lying Consciousness Quality Our Lives Depends Seeds

Book:Understanding Our Mind

Source: Understanding Our Mind

“Now individual consciousness, as typified in human beings, has great advantages and great disadvantages. Individuality means a narrowing, and narrowness can be useful. It is good for close-up work. We have invented the magnifying glass and the microscope to narrow our vision, because narrowness makes for precision. But narrowness also makes for a failure of purpose, for exhaustion of the will; for purpose depends upon a broad vision, a clear sight of one's objective.”

“Consciousness is non-local and does not depend on words to communicate.”

Doe Consciousness Depends Communicate Locals

Author:Bernie Siegel

“What you encounter at your destination once you get there depends on the quality of this one step. Another way of putting it: What the future holds for you depends on your state of consciousness now.”

Way States Consciousness Quality Steps Depends Encounters Destination Another Way States Of Consciousness

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“An endangered planet may depend on the evolution of consciousness.”

May Consciousness Planets Depends Evolution

Author:Deepak Chopra

“So for instance it becomes clear why space and time and even the properties of matter itself depend on the observer in consciousness. In fact when you take this point of view it even explains why the laws of the universe themselves are fine tuned for the existence of life.”

Matter Facts Law Universe Space Views Existence Consciousness Clear Fine Depends Property Point Of View Instance Time And Space Observers Existence Of Life Properties Of Matter

Author:Robert Lanza

“Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots; they have reactions like ours that indicate that someone's home.”

Doe Home Language Animal Brain Consciousness Baby Depends Speech Patient Reactions Damage Robots

Author:Steven Pinker