Albert Camus Quotes

It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.

I live in the moment, and I reflect later.

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

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.

Wisdom begins at the end.

Awareness means the capacity to see a coffeepot and hear the birds sing in one's own way and not the way one was taught.

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.

My experience is what I agree to attend to.

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

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

Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs.

There's much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life.

Awareness is always the first step.

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 can't help but feel that stuff that comes to me by chance or on purpose, whatever, tends to reflect where I am as a human being.

Become alert about desire and non-attachment begins to appear. This is not to be made to happen, it follows naturally from awareness of attachment. Each one of us has to become aware of his attachments, and keep being so! Nothing should be done unconsciously.

I'm much more introspective than I was, say, thirty years ago.

We live within this reality we create, and we're quite unaware of how we create the reality. So the work is often a general koan into how we go about forming this world in which we live, in particular with seeing.

That's basically what I have people do, I have them become aware. Once you set a goal, once you become aware of something, it becomes part of your consciousness.

Neither. I am just one who has woken up while the rest of you are still sleeping.

Become a witness to your thoughts.

Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.

I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.

Every thought is an afterthought.