Maxine Greene Quotes

A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.

There is thought, and then there is thinking about thoughts, and they don't feel the same.

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.

I like the state of being self-aware, it's interesting when you start to look at your own habits.

Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid.

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

I think it's always important to reflect anyway, no matter what age you're approaching or what milestone is in front of you. Reflection should be almost a daily thing if possible.

I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted.

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

The only mistake that we can make as human beings is to be asleep, unaware of ourselves.

When you start meditating on your ego, on your thoughts, on your mind, you are suddenly separate, because whatsoever you meditate on, you are separate from it. That has become the object and you have become the subject.

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.

This is the key to life: the ability to reflect, the ability to know yourself, the ability to pause for a second before reacting automatically. If you can truly know yourself, you will begin the journey of transformation.

Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies.

I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

How do you know, right now, that you are aware of being aware, or conscious?

I've always been a very self-aware person.

I'm trying to make work that is reflective and is encouraging of reflection.

I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.

I live in the moment, and I reflect later.

It's only when we are able to see our own behavior that we are able to wake up and start making conscious choices.

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

I think I tend to live in sort of a meta state of existence where I'm always analyzing and analyzing whatever I'm going through at any given moment, and a lot of times I'll reflect back on and go, 'Oh look at that - if I acted this way when that happened, I might not have thought of that that way.'