Eugene Ionesco Quotes

We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them.

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

Without the ability to think about yourself, to reflect on your life, there’s really no awareness, no consciousness. Consciousness doesn’t come automatically; it comes through being alive, awake, curious, and often furious.

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

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.

I have definitely had experiences where I can feel the shift from simply living my life to being slightly outside of my life and taking notes.

I don't really take a step back too often to see what's going on.

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.

Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid.

Become a witness to your thoughts.

Be the witness of your thoughts.

If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn't even know you are thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn't know he is dreaming. When you know you are dreaming, you are awake within the dream.

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.

Being aware in the moment of right now is just the most important thing. All of our issues come from us not being aware enough or not seeing through our problems to the depths of the issues.

Humility and full consciousness are inseparable.

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.

He felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at his very feet. All his life he had been looking over the heads of those around him, while he had only to look before him without straining his eyes. p 1320

What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask.

Beauty can never really understand itself.

Become conscious of being conscious.

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.