Olive Schreiner Quotes

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

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.

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

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

First Sight means you can see what really is there, and Second Thoughts mean thinking about what you are thinking. And in Tiffany's case, there were sometimes Third Thoughts and Fourth Thoughts although these...sometimes led her to walk into doors.

I wish the children could be taught early on that our thinking creates our experience.

I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I'm just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren't fully open yet.

Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.

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.

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

It's when I am fully conscious that I ask questions.

Vipassana: looking into something with clarity and precision, seeing each component as distinct, piercing all the way through so as to perceive the most fundamental reality of that thing.

But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.

You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly; while you are making them you cannot see them. Good people know about both bad and evil; bad people do not know about either.

The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world.

Meditation is to be aware of what is going on in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world.

Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions. Notice what you notice. Observe what's vivid. Catch yourself thinking. Vividness is self-selecting. And remember the future.

I have gone around observing your activities from the outside. Because of this I have also been able to see things to which you have been blind... Every morning you have gone to work, but you have never been fully awake. Of course, you have seen the sun and the moon, the stars in the sky, and everything that moves, but you haven't really seen it at all. It is different for the Joker, because he was put into this world with a flaw: He sees too clearly and too much.

In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.

I tell myself that I know you, and then when I think about it, I realize that I don't.

Awareness means grasping life just the way it is, without contamination by mental projections.

Being aware in the moment of right now is just the most important thing. All of our issues come from us not being aware enough or not seeing through our problems to the depths of the issues.

Sometimes I wish I wasn't as conscious as I am. It would be so much easier.

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