Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress--in plain language, every new development is good news, bad news.

The point is to unify the opposites, both positive and negative, by discovering a ground which transcends and encompasses both.

To understand the whole it is necessary to understand the parts. To understand the parts, it is necessary to understand the whole. Such is the circle of understanding.

Conscious means "having an awareness of one's inner and outer worlds; mentally perceptive, awake, mindful." So "conscious business" might mean, engaging in an occupation, work, or trade in a mindful, awake fashion. This implies, of course, that many people do not do so. In my experience, that is often the case. So I would definitely be in favor of conscious business; or conscious anything, for that matter.

In Democracy, man exploits man; in Communism, it's the other way round.

I don't believe that any human mind is capable of 100 percent error... Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.

As Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin knew, the future of humankind is God-consciousness.