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The News
First Off: There is the mind-and-thinking — and then there
is consciousness, and one seems to begin inside of the other,
then one appears to become captive of the other. What people
such as you attempt to do is to set up a new arrangement. Sub
Distinction: Consciousness needs no introduction — such as the
one just given, for the sake of the mind.
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The mind can entertain — consciousness, inform.
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Without the mind, no consciousness — with too much, not
enough.
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From An Extended View — The Way It Would Appear: Cats have
their body, birds, their mind, men, consciousness.
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One man’s mind admits: “Dichotomies run in my family.”
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Don’t waste consciousness on conversations & comments —
these are jobs for the mind.
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To be made civilized is to have the barrenness of
consciousness turned into the city of the mind — but for some,
this is not the end of the game.
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Consciousness without the mind is not human consciousness —
with it — a seventy year “done deed.” But for some — the game
does not end here either.
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Consciousness cannot talk — the mind can do little else.
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Let’s go beyond the division of, cats-and-birds: There are
birds who are caged and one which is not.
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The mind may be a “quick study” but consciousness is a
constant one.
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One man wouldn’t let his consciousness out of his sight.
Another man wouldn’t let his mind take his consciousness out of
sight.
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No one knows where a thinker comes from — and no one sure
as hell knows where he’s headed.
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Don’t waste consciousness on complaining & singing — these
are also jobs for the mind.
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Without the mind — no consciousness; nothing can distract
consciousness but the mind.
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You must first free yourself from the collective’s thinking
— then from your own.
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An Analogous Telephone Tip: The mind’s design is to want to
talk — but don’t speak into consciousness.
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The mind searches for an ultimate answer as does a lemming
for the sea.
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Two Things: There is the mind — and thinking, and
consciousness — and point-blankness.
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Without the cats there are no birds, without the brain there
is no mind, but that, dear humans, is still not necessarily the
end of it.
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While dichotomies run in the family of the mind —
consciousness just runs.
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The mind’s dream of a future paradise is in fact its memory
of the barrenness of initial consciousness.
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The mind can be clever — consciousness, wise.
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The Mind: The noise of a kingdom. Consciousness: The
Kingdom.
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When seen from a space ship: Consciousness is to the mind
as the mind is to the brain; as birds are to cats, as neurons are
to hormones, and what more need be said!?
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Only the mind can “drive you crazy” — not consciousness.
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Being intelligent is easy; being conscious — forget it!
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The mind alone is not capable of point-blank-thought.
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Consciousness without the mind is not human consciousness;
consciousness with the mind held at bay is super consciousness.
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The mind is tied to time — not so, consciousness. The mind
has a watch — consciousness, eternity.
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Distinction: The mind is always partisan — consciousness,
never.
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Without the mind, consciousness cannot speak; then later
that same lifetime, some find it speaks too much.
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With the mind in mind, one man’s consciousness said to him:
“Even the briefest of moments away from you is far too long.”
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A Note Regarding “Intellectual Support”: Consciousness can
never “let you down” — since it doesn’t know what that means.
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Consciousness is never critical.
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Don’t waste consciousness on counting & planning — they too
are jobs for the mind.
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The mind, personal — consciousness, greater.
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A man does not know that he is conscious until he has a mind
to tell him that he is; then for some — it’s too late.
Meanwhile, later, those same “some” can discover that it is not
too late, that in fact it all occurred at the only time it could
occur, and that the time is always “just right” for the “some” to
make their needed adjustments.
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One man told his mind: “Don’t talk to me when I’m trying to
be conscious.”
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The mind looks for a template, a paradigm, the origin-of-
species, while consciousness just looks.
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Legerdemainian Legend: There is magic that consciousness
can do that makes all the stage illusions of the mind look like
cheap pocket tricks.
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The Adversarial Arrangement: The body is feral, the mind,
civilized, consciousness remains neutral.
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Whenever his consciousness would drift, this one man would
say to it: “Return with me now to those wondrous days that are
everyday! — right here — right now!”
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Mere aggression lies forever safely beyond the pale of pure
consciousness.
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Trying to be conscious without the mind’s interference gives
a man something always to do.
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What can I tell you!?: Talking-to-yourself is not
consciousness.
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With attention resident in consciousness, apologies are
seldom necessary.
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Hey! — What can I tell you, again!?: The mind-is-the-mind
— but consciousness can be, point-blank!
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Consciousness is the one thing a thinker can never afford to
lose.
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