You MUST rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and STRENGTH, if you want to raise their character.

A complete AUTOBIOGRAPHY would indeed be a picture of the outer and inner universe photographed upon one little life's consciousness. For does not the whole world, SEEN and unseen, GO to the MAKING up of EVERY human being?

Museums are managers of CONSCIOUSNESS. They give us an INTERPRETATION of history, of how to VIEW the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in POSITIVE terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines.

It was clear to me that the FORMS of CONSCIOUSNESS of our inherited and acquired historical education - AESTHETIC consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our TRUE historical being.

I'm big into Eastern concepts. The HORROR of LIFE, the love of children, the whole phantasmagoria - it's all meaningless. Be still, and see what happens. All of life unfolds PERFECTLY. You have to GET beyond consciousness.

I BELIEVE that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as HUMAN beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I FEEL a STRONG sense of responsibility in delivering that MESSAGE.

I get my BEST ideas in that state of suspended CONSCIOUSNESS just before SLEEP.

You know what a lima bean does when it's ATTACKED by SPIDER mites? It releases this volatile chemical that goes out into the world and summons another species of mite that comes in and attacks the spider mite, defending the lima bean. So what PLANTS have - while we have CONSCIOUSNESS, toolmaking, language, they have BIOCHEMISTRY.

A SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS should be reflected in your POETRY.