Edgar Mitchell Quotes

Just as a stream flows smoothly on as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animal is such that we never really notice or become conscious of what is agreeable to our will; if we are to notice something, our will has to have been thwarted, has to have experienced a shock of some kind.

It's one thing thinking something and another thing knowing it.

Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.

Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.

But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living?

The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.

The state of least excitation of consciousness is the field of all possibilities.

He is conscious only of God...To be conscious of knowing God is to know about God and self.

The first element of change is awareness. You can’t change something unless you know it exists.

You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.

Living isn't courage, knowing that you're living, that's courage

The animals are at a level prior to thinking. They haven't lost themselves in thought. We rise above thinking and then we meet them again, where we're both in no-thought. There's a deep connection.

Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.

Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.

Knowing ignorance is strength; ignoring knowledge is sickness.

Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.

Because dogs and cats still live in the original state of connectedness with Being, they can help us regain it. When we do so, however, that original state deepens and turns into awareness.

The humanity and the humility, which are very different than the biological species homo sapiens. Humanity versus homo sapiens - very different things. We are biological creatures, we are animals, no doubt, but when you talk about "humando," you're talking about that particular kind of animals who are aware of their impending extinction, who have the capacity to be sensitive to catastrophe and disaster and calamity and profound crisis.

True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.

We can conceive a thinking being to have either many or few perceptions. Suppose the mind to be reduced even below the life of anoyster. Suppose it to have only one perception, as of thirst or hunger. Consider it in that situation. Do you conceive any thing but merely that perception? Have you any notion of self or substance? If not, the addition of other perceptions can never give you that notion.

All thinking, knowing, perception, space-time, occur in consciousness. You are a non-local consciousness. The world is in you.

One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.

That is why those who are not capable of being there in the present moment, they don't really live their life - they live like dead people.

This very rock where we're sitting is a rock because we have been forced to give out attention to it

The man who is asleep reacts; he knows nothing of action. And reaction is a binding: it binds you into new prisons, new chains. Response is out of freedom, hence it brings more freedom. Reaction is out of the past; you act according to your memories, built-in by your experiences, conditionings. You react not to the present, not in the present. You don't reflect the real situation as it is; you go on interpreting it according to your past, your past experiences. The man who is awake is like a mirror: he reflects that which is the case. HE IS AWAKE.