Quotes about Awareness

How plain does it appear that there is not another condition of life so well suited for philosophising as this in which thou now happenest to be.

He blind, who cannot see with the eyes of his understanding.

How the mind can participate in the sensations of the body and yet maintain its serenity, and focus on its own well-being.

Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see.

It is in our power to have no opinion about a thing.

Throw away your books; no longer distract yourself: it is not allowed.

What is outside the scope of my mind has absolutely no concern with my mind. Learn this lesson and thou standest erect.

Harbour no such opinions as he holds who does thee violence, or as he would have thee hold. See things in all their naked reality.

Accustom yourself to attend closely to what is said by others, and as far as possible to penetrate into the mind of the speaker.

I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.

As for the person who is not impelled to give thanks for the procession of the stars, the alternation of day and night, the regular succession of the seasons, and the fruits which are produced for our enjoyment--how can such a person be counted as human at all?

Just because there's a silence it doesn't mean that nothing is going on.