"Shut your eyes and you will know
what I mean by thought entombed in darkness.
Light comes through the senses,
and not only through the sense of sight.
When you see without feeling,
you are still partly blind;
you lack the inner light that brings awareness.
Awareness requires the interplay of every faculty,
the use of your entire being as an eye."
-Charles A. Lindbergh

"We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand...
and melting like a snowflake.
Let us use it before it is too late."
-Marie Edith Beynon

"The most beautiful thing
we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and science.
He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can
no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
-Albert Einstein

"Let us not look back
in anger or forward in fear,
but around in awareness."
-James Thurber

"An enlightened mind is not hoodwinked;
it is not shut up in a gloomy prison
till it thinks the walls of its dungeon
the limits of the universe, and the reach of
its own chain the outer verge of intelligence."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"There is a rhythm in life,
a certain beauty which operates
by a variation of lights and shadows,
happiness alternating with sorrow,
content with discontent,
distilling in this process of contrast
a sense of satisfaction,
of richness that can be captured
and pinned down only by those
who possess the gift of awareness."
-Louis Bromfield

"The ultimate value
of life depends upon awareness,
and the power of contemplation
rather than upon mere survival."
-Aristotle