Willard Gaylin Quotes

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence.

Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

We're humans, and we're moved by emotions.

One thing about pain: It proves you're alive.

How do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?

We're a feeling, an awareness encased here

I am not minimizing emotions. Emotions are an important part of life.

Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can’t feel pain, you aren’t gonna feel anything else, either.

Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts.

It is clear that every immediate object of our senses both exists and is real in the primary meaning of these terms so long as we remain aware of the object.

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

I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.

Only where there is sentient life can there be feelings of pleasure and pain, sorrow or joy.

Pain is a beautiful thing. When you feel pain, you know you're alive.

Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.

To be awake is to be alive.

When I see a colour or hear a sound, I am aware of something, and not of nothing.

We live on the leash of our senses.

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.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, and consciousness is the ability to feel things and have subjective experiences.

The emotion, and the other aspect is that this relate to many different obstacle in life. Emotion, yes, I love emotion, for your information, very much so.

It is not quite right to describe One Taste as a "consciousness" or an "awareness," because that's a little too heady, too cognitive. It's more like the simple Feeling of Being. You already feel this simple Feeling of Being: it is the simple, present feeling of existence.