Henry David Thoreau Quotes

The secret is to be awake. To be awake is everything.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Watchfulness is experiencing a sudden glimpse of something without any qualifications - just the sudden glimpse itself.

For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.

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

Be aware of everything around you, because you are receiving the answers to your questions in every moment of the day.

To the man whose senses are alive and alert there is not even the need to stir from one's threshold.

The sin of inadvertence, not being alert, not quite awake, is the sin of missing the moment of life-live with unremitting alertness.

People never notice anything.

Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.

Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.'

The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.

I've tried to be open to what's going on and paying close attention, not letting things that inspire me to pass me by.

I'm always going to keep my eyes open.

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

Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.

Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.

All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.

Whatever you do, do with deep alertness, then even small things become sacred.

While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.

Anything is hard to find when you will not open your eyes

You must always look with both of your eyes and listen with both of your ears. He says this is a very big world and there are many many things you could miss if you are not careful. There are remarkable things all the time, right in front of us, but our eyes have like the clouds over the sun and our lives are paler and poorer if we do not see them for what they are. If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?

Awareness means that whatsoever is happening in the moment is happening with complete consciousness; you are present there. If you are present when anger is happening, anger cannot happen. It can happen only when you are fast asleep. When you are present, immediate, transformation starts in your being, because when you are present, aware, many things are simply not possible. All that is called sin is not possible if you are aware. So, in fact, there is only one sin and that is unawareness.

The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.

Art is about paying attention.