Quotes about Awareness
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
- Aldous Huxley
He had discovered Time and Death and God.
- Aldous Huxley
Leaving you defenceless against the full consciousness of the fact that you can't do without your fellow humans, and that, when you're with them, they make you sick.
- Aldous Huxley
The religiously-minded dualist calls homemade spirits from the vasty deep; the nondualist calls the vasty deep into his spirit or, to be more accurate, he finds that the vasty deep is already there.
- Aldous Huxley
Lenina suddenly remembered an occasion when, as a little girl at school, she had woken up in the middle of the night and become aware, for the first time, of the whispering that had haunted all her sleeps.
- Aldous Huxley
Unmentioned, what is can become as though it were not.
- Aldous Huxley
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
- Aldous Huxley
You'll have a better understanding of what was actually done if you start by knowing what had to be done - what always and everywhere has to be done by anyone who has a clear idea about what's what.
- Aldous Huxley
Goodness needeth not to enter into the soul, for it is there already, only it is unperceived. Theologia Germanica
- Aldous Huxley
If I only knew who in fact I am, I should cease to behave as what I think I am; and if I stopped behaving as what I think I am, I should know who I am.
- Aldous Huxley
No, you accept the world, and you make use of it; you make use of everything you do, of everything that happens to you, of all the things you see and hear and taste and touch, as so many means to your liberation from the prison of yourself.
- Aldous Huxley
Choiceless awareness - at every moment and in all the circumstances of life - is the only effective meditation.
- Aldous Huxley