Jenny Offill Quotes

To be awake is to be alive.

To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

Live with all of your senses.

To be awake is everything.

Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness.

You can see and you can listen, but you have to have moments in which you feel.

Wakefulness is the way to life. The fool sleeps As if he were already dead, But the master is awake And he lives forever.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

I know if I'm lost in the moment or not.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

How do you know, right now, that you are aware of being aware, or conscious?

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

When you are present, the world is truly alive.

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

The mind is always present. You just don't see it.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.

To be alive as a human being is to know, in the same way as it is to have a heart that beats.

I want people to be awake. I want them to be aware.

I'm very big on feeling.

Stay conscious and alive, day in and day out.

Make your will one! Don't listen with your ears, listen with your mind. No, don't listen with your mind, but listen with your spirit. Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty- and waits on all things. The Way gathers in emptiness alone. Emptiness is the fasting of the mind.