Quotes About Nature

With mindfulness, we can see their impersonal nature more clearly, not identifying with the thinker, letting thoughts dissolve like waves back into awareness.

Imperfection is not our personal problem - it is a natural part of existing.

We find true refuge whenever we recognize the silent space of awareness behind all our busy doing and striving. We find refuge whenever our hearts open with tenderness and love. We find refuge whenever we connect with the innate clarity and intelligence of our true nature.

This means accepting our human existence and all of life as it is. Imperfection is not our personal problem—it is a natural part of existing.

Poet Gary Lawless writes: When the animals come to us, Asking for our help, Will we know what they are saying? When the plants speak to us In their delicate, beautiful language, Will we be able to answer them? When the planet herself Sings to us in our dreams, Will we be able to wake ourselves, and act?

You can't possibly be afraid of trees.

Two natures beat within my breast The one is foul, the one is blessed The one I love, the one I hate. The one I feed will dominate. -Anonymous

Genetics is a bit like peeking behind a movie's special effects to find a deceptively simple and elegant system running the whole show.

Ljubav može biti i guja pritajena u obliku ogrlice i slavuj koji ne prestaje cvrkutati.

Svakog sam mjeseca sanjala ovu avliju. Sje?aš li se sjena narova drveta pri punom mjesecu, Amira? Sje?aš li se što smo tad govorile? Ako je mjesec na našoj strani, što ?e nam onda zvijezde?

Oh my son," sighed Ama. "I was talking to the shadows of the pomegranate trees. At least they will be here when we are all gone.

the desert, more than anything else, opens the human mind to observation, meditation, and initiation into meaning.

Man is a restless creature, nomadic at heart.

Outlines of dead logs I hauled away remained impressed on the damp earth, scarring the ground with their funereal shapes.

When I'm working in the barn or house I often think of all the errors I've made in my life. But then I quickly put that behind me and think of water lilies. They will always eradicate unpleasant thoughts. Or goslings are equally comforting in their own way.

It's exciting to see things coming up again, plants that you've had twenty or thirty years. It's like seeing an old friend.

Hummingbirds and flowers go together like summertime and fireflies; like rainbows and sunshine.

Larkspur lifting turquoise spires Bluer than the sorcerer's fires.

Lama Yeshe says: I hope that you understand what the word "spiritual" really means. It means to search for, to investigate, the true nature of the mind. There's nothing spiritual outside. My rosary isn't spiritual; my robes aren't spiritual. Spiritual means the mind, and spiritual people are those who seek its nature.4

It is vital that we are clear that the Prasangika Madhyamaka masters are not denying the existence of self, body, pain, table, and so on; they are arguing that the mind apprehends these things as if they have inherent nature, which they do not.

A mind cannot exist independently, without an object. By its very nature, mind is the subject, the agent, the doer. Subject and object are interdependent—without one the other cannot exist. This is why if, through deep meditation, we free our minds from interaction with all external and internal objects, the subjective mind will naturally focus on itself as the object.

We are ignorant of the fundamental nature of the way things exist, and we feel anxiety because of this.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

When nature got angry, Paul said, there was nothing man could do about it. Nothing at all. In