How aware you are is how alive you are.

To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.

The key, though, is being aware of how you’re feeling and how you need to be feeling. It all starts with awareness.

Awareness is aliveness.

Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe

Awareness: This means becoming aware of what’s going on in your internal and external environments, which helps you work more mindfully and deliberately.

So in the meantime, exist as you exist. Only do not forget one thing, namely, at your age it is indispensably necessary that every day, at sunrise, while watching the reflection of its splendor, you bring about a contact between your consciousness and the various unconscious parts of your general presence. Try to make this state last and to convince the unconscious parts — not as if they were conscious — that if they hinder your general functioning, they, in the period of your responsible age, not only cannot fulfill the good that befits them, but your general presence of which they are part, will not be able to be a good servant of our Common Endless Creator, and by that will not even be worthy to pay for your arising and existence.

So if you do something, you should be observant, and careful, and alert.

I like life well enough to want to live it awake

To be aware, then, is to be aware of thoughts, feelings, sensations, desires, and all other forms of experience. Never at any time are you aware of anything which is not experience, not a thought or feeling, but instead an experiencer, thinker, or feeler. If this is so, what makes us think that any such thing exists?

Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?

Remaining aware of awareness, witnessing it thru every experience within without one, is the way and the goal both...

Be Happy and keep smiling...

The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive.

Awareness is not a state you force. There is little effort involved, though persistence is key. It’s something you actively allow to happen.