Hannah Arendt Quotes

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

As long as I am thinking, I am alive.

Only the present moment contains life.

Life is a state of consciousness.

I am not lost. I am very much alive.

I don’t think of dying, I think of being here now.

I think that just being alive inspires me.

People who are fully alive look out of their minds to those who simply exist.

Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.

Care, because it is what you do. Care, and be vibrantly alive.

Life is now in session. Are you present?

Know that life can only be found in the present moment.

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

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

You are only here now; you're only alive in this moment.

I think it's so important to have a practice, because the consciousness isn't perfection or enlightenment or any of that bullshit. The consciousness is, "Oh, I'm walking down the street and I'm doing nothing."

You are not 'in the now;' you are the now. That is your essential identity-the only thing that never changes. Life is always now. Now is consciousness. And consciousness is who you are. That's the equation.

The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness.

Listen - life is really going on, right now, around us. Do you see it? Sometimes I lose it but if I sit still and listen, it comes back, and then I think, How funny, this is what being alive is.

The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.

Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive.

Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

When you realize you're alive, you can live life!