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The conventional definition of consciousness, which makes it the total of all the mental states of a person, is satisfactory only as far as it goes, but it is unsatisfactory because it misses the most important element--awareness--which is not a state at all, and not even an item in it.

-- Notebooks Category 21: Mentalism > Chapter 5 : The Key To the Spiritual World > # 161