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“The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites.”

Inspirational Moving Purpose Suffering Consciousness Opposites Painful Therapy Remove Polarity

Author:James Hollis

“Drugs are about dulling perception, about addiction and about behavioral repetition...What *psychedelics* are about is pattern- dissolving experiences of an extraordinarily high or different awareness. They are the exact opposite of drugs. They promote questioning , they promote consciousness, they promote value examinations, they promote the reconstruction of behavioral patterns.”

Different Values Consciousness Awareness Drug Perception Opposites Addiction Patterns Questioning Repetition Examination Reconstruction Dissolving

Author:Terence McKenna

“Choice is born out of opposites, and the duality of the second chakra is forever challenging us to make choices in a world of opposing sides, of positive and negative energy patterns. Every choice we make contributes a subtle current of our energy to our universe, which is responsive to the influence of human consciousness.”

Source: Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

“Consciousness is not about information but about its opposite: order.”

Order Consciousness Information Opposites

Book:The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size

Source: The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size

“A quarter-horse jockey learns to think of a twenty-second race as if it were occurring across twenty minutes--in distinct parts, spaced in his consciousness. Each nuance of the ride comes to him as he builds his race. If you can do the opposite with deep time, living in it and thinking in it until the large numbers settle into place, you can sense how swiftly the initial earth packed itself together, how swiftly continents have assembled and come apart, how far and rapidly continents travel, how quickly mountains rise and how quickly they disintegrate and disappear.”

Ifs Thinking Earth Together Can Do Numbers Race Consciousness Minutes Mountain Opposites Horse Twenties Disappear Settling Quarters Continents Initials Large Numbers Nuance Jockeys

Author:John McPhee

“Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.”

Consciousness Opposites Unity Planes Paradox

Book:One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life

Source: One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life

“Love of consciousness evokes the same in response Love of feeling evokes the opposite Love of body depends only on type and polarity.”

Life Feelings Body Consciousness Type Depends Opposites Response Evoke Polarity

Book:Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: All and Everything, First Series

Source: Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: All and Everything, First Series

“The word religion comes from an origin which means "coming together." But priesthood has been doing just the opposite, it has created splits in man, not oneness. Religion means creating in man an organic unity; it has nothing to do with God, it has something to do with you. It has nothing to do with worship, it has something to do with a transformation of your own consciousness.”

Men Mean Has Beens Together Spirituality Belief Consciousness Creating Worship Opposites Transformation Unity Oneness Manifestation Splits Priesthood Coming Together

Author:Rajneesh

“Meditation means undoing what the society has done to you. It has reduced you to a machine; you have to de-automatise yourself, you have to become a man again. You have to come out of this state of unconsciousness, of mechanicalness. You have to come out of this sleep. It is possible only through meditation. There is no other way, there has never been, there will never be. The only way to reduce a man to a machine is take away his consciousness force him to function unconsciously. And just the opposite is the way of meditation: give him back his consciousness.”

Men Way Giving Mean States Done Force Sleep Consciousness Meditation Machines Opposites Function Unconsciousness Undoing

Author:Rajneesh

“Not the least of the problems in clarifying one's consciousness is developing the stoic determination to criticize one's own softness or sentimentality toward oneself. Ego, self-solicitous about its own tenderness, is the ultimate policeman over its own false consciousness, dementedly uprooting every healthy seedling of insight into the truth. As Kierkegaard remarked, most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, but the real trick and task of life is to learn to be just the very opposite.”