Eric Nylund Quotes

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.

I'm not one to be paying too much attention to what another dude's doing.

I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.

Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life.

We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right at our very feet that we have never seen, because we have never really looked.

But if they don't exist, how can a man see them?

The whole life lies in the verb seeing.

To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.

Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?

We have names for everything. What if we forgot about those names? And we stopped seeing things as something? What if we just observed things, watched things, without giving them a name, without coming to a conclusion? What do you think would happen? You would transcend everything.

Notice, notice; let noticing take the place of screaming.

You must learn to see, what you are looking at

Nothing is boring exept to people who aren't really paying attention.

The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.

As you think, so you become.....Our busy minds are forever jumping to conclusions, manufacturing and interpreting signs that aren't there.

I perceive a necessary gap between seeing and being. I would not be able to have said certain things if I had been under the obligation to unify the word and the deed. As it is I can let my words reach out and net impossible things - things that are impossible for me to do. And this is a way to pay the price for saying or seeing things.

‎People who talk less frequently notice more.

Observe what is with undivided awareness.

Observe, and in that observation there is neither the "observer" nor the "observed" - there is only observation taking place.

Nothing comes unannounced, but many can miss the announcement. So it's very important to actually listen to your own intuition rather than driving through it.

Anything in life has a ying and a yang. It has a good and a bad. And in the case of freedom, well, freedom also gives you the freedom to be stupid.

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.