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consciousness.txt
 1  One might find oneself feeling trapped in repeating the same daily routine to the degree that one might dread every step. Those who seek to escape such routine, might appreciate these words:   
 2  "The awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step for mankind."    
 3  Those who then aspires to understand what such "consciousness" might be, might be left confused as in:   
 4  "We have no idea how the subjective quality of consciousness emerges from the physical stuff of the brain."   
 5  But some might appreciate the following definition:    
 6  "Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations."   
 7  Those who seek to understand such limitation, might appreciate these words:   
 8  "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."    
 9  Those who seek to understand such possibilities, might appreciate these words:   
10  "Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things."    
11  Those who seek to understand such imagination, might appreciate the chapter on "imagination".
12  Those who seek to understand such awareness, might appreciate these words:    
13  "Awareness requires only that we pay attention and see things as they are."   
14  Those who then realize the finitude of attention might appreciate these words:    
15  "Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention."   
16  Those who wonder where to pay one's attention might appreciate the following advice:    
17  "If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves."    
18  One might appreciate the following piece of advice in case that "it" might be referencing oneself:   
19  "The love and attention you always thought you wanted from someone else is the love and attention you first need to give to yourself."    
20  Those who do not know how to love oneself might appreciate these words:   
21  "To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself."   
22  Those who struggle to accept oneself might appreciate these words:    
23  "I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become."    
24  Those who do not know how to choose might appreciate the following realization:    
25  "Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness."    
26  Those who wonder how to make oneself worthy might encounter such words:    
27  "It’s not enough to just be yourself. You must be your best self."   
28  Those who recognize the potential danger to one's self esteem in those words might appreciate the following words:    
29  "The solution to low self-esteem is to get over yourself and get a higher purpose."   
30  One might find such a purpose in the following advice:   
31  "Be kind to yourself so you can be happy enough to be kind to the world."    
32  Those who seeks to be kind towards oneself might appreciate the following realization:    
33  "Doing your best is more important than being the best."    
34  One might then be confronted with the following realization:    
35  "Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required."     
36  Those might appreciate the following wisdom:    
37  "No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him."    
38  Those who keeps seeking for success might appreciate the following realization:    
39  "Believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic."    
40  Those who seek to believe in oneself to be enough might appreciate the following mantra:    
41  "We are all on the way to Pro."