Wake Up!
David Foster Wallace spoke eloquently on being awake, in Thoreau’s sense of the word.
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 million to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face?
(Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Or, Life in the Woods)
(via kottke.org)
Tags: consciousness, mindfulness