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"Relative to the level of awareness that is possible for us,
our ordinary state of consciousness is as far from a direct experience of reality
as sleep is from waking consciousness."
 

Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson
 
 
"The thought 'I exist' is not the same thing as the awareness of one's own existence.
Thought is not the same thing as consciousness."
 

Jacob Needleman
 

A person asked Buddha:
"Are you a God?"
Buddha's reply was
"No."
"Are you an Angel?"
"No."
"Then what are you?"
"I am Awake."
 

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