“Being aware is being aware of one's own mind and the games it plays on itself.”

“Awareness is a way you keep yourself company. When you are aware you are being compulsive, you are no longer locked in the behavior. You have a choice to stop. That choice--and therefore awareness itself--is freedom.”

“Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.”

“Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat.”

“Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being aware. And the worst part of my awareness was that I didn't know what I was aware of. I knew I knew very little, but I was certain that the things I had yet to learn wouldn't be taught to me at George Washington High School. ”

“If you cannot be aware of who you are, you can start with being aware of who you are not.”