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There’s no need to call it “higher” consciousness. A better term is “total” consciousness, the ground state of everything in existence.

— Deepak Chopra

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More quotes by Deepak Chopra

Buddha didn’t teach that life hurts because of pain; it hurts because the cause of suffering hasn’t been examined.

Laughter is Humanity's mechanism to escape suffering.

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.

Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times. His story is full of adventure, intrigue, betrayal.

What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.

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Mircea Eliade Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

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The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

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