Allen Ginsberg Quotes

The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.

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.

One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see.

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

The time of wisdom cannot be measured, and for me, wisdom is the garden. There is no time in the garden.

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

Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.

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

To do everything in a sacred manner means to do everything fully in the state of presence.

Those who are Awake live in a state of constant amazement.

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.

You don't always have to look in the distance for what's going on over there, when you actually see what's right in front of you.

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

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

Art is about paying attention.

If y'can't see with yore own two eyes what's in front of them, then y'better off closin' 'em an' goin' t'sleep, 'tis far more restful! —Gerul

It might be good to open our eyes and see.

Now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened.

We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake

You must learn to see, what you are looking at

Observe what is with undivided awareness.

You showed me everything was black cause my eyes were closed.

What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.

There is no ideal in observation. When you have an ideal, you cease to observe, you are then merely approximating the present to the idea, and therefore there is duality, conflict, and all the rest of it. The mind has to be in the state when it can see, observe. The experience of the observation is really an astonishing state. In that there is no duality. The mind is simply - aware.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.