But while she saw action as generating a transformed consciousness, her letters testify to her belief in the need for revolutionary organisation too.
"Poetry can save the world by transforming consciousness," Ferlinghetti argues in "Poetry as Insurgent Art".
Our mission is "Transforming Consciousness through Education"; we think the cultivation of more evolved "Consciousness" is the collective's best bet for effecting world change.
(During the online seminars with Winfrey, she frequently characterised him as a spiritual leader with the power to transform the consciousness of the planet. Tolle just smiled amiably).
Steve Cosson, the artistic director of the Civilians — a theater company whose drama "The Great Immensity" is preoccupied with what it would take to transform public consciousness about climate change — puts it bluntly: "On a cultural level, we are behind".
USM offers a new educational paradigm that empowers students with practical tools, skills, and processes to experientially transform their consciousness so they can in turn transform their worlds.
"The heart of the planet is more and more and more open... .. "Try sleeping with one tiny mosquito if you think you're too small to make a difference as one being... .. "You are doing the greatest act of activism by being loving... .. "I have a dream that one day we will all unite for peace on the same day at the same time and have a wave of love that transforms consciousness – internally.
Through its (still abstract) grasp of the universal concept of man, against religious particularity, the Enlightenment had transformed religious consciousness into self-consciousness.
This event transformed political consciousness beyond the youth although they remained in the forefront of protest thereafter with far-reaching consequences.
"We're all going to die after lunch!" he announced brightly, before heading off to the afternoon session of the Joseph Campbell workshop that was apparently transforming his consciousness even then.
We don't want philosophy, we want materialism!" Tagore, the apparently unworldly romantic, transformed the consciousness of his region through essays, poems and songs, two of which are now the national anthems of India and Bangladesh.
