Quotes About Awareness

You must become an ignorant man again And see the sun again with an ignorant eye And see it clearly in the idea of it.

From the opening lines of the play Three Travelers Watch a Sunrise All you need, To find poetry, Is to look for it with a lantern.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.

The exceeding brightness of this early sun Makes me conceive how dark I have become.

The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book.

I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw Or heard or felt came not but from myself; And there I found myself more truly and more strange.

One must read poetry with one's nerves.

in the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination.

For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds / Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.

Life is like a mirror, what you see out there, you must first see what is inside you.

I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

Whatever is impermanent is dukkha' (Yad anicca? ta? dukkha?).

Real life is the present moment—not the memories of the past which is dead and gone, nor the dreams of the future which is not yet born. One who lives in the present moment lives the real life, and he is happiest.

It is not correct to say that life is moving, but life is movement itself. Life and movement are not two different things. In other words, there is no thinker behind the thought. Thought itself is the thinker. If you remove the thought, there is no thinker to be found.

Mere suffering exists, but no sufferer is found; The deeds are, but no doer is found.

You may see the light, but the light is not the result of your eyesight.

Mere suffering exists, but no sufferer is found; The deed are, but no doer is found.

Further, the Buddha explained to ?nanda how one could be one's own island or refuge, how one could make the Dhamma one's own island or refuge: through the cultivation of mindfulness or awareness of the body, sensations, mind and mind-objects (the four Satipa??h?nas).2 There is no talk at all here about an ?tman or Self.

One should be bold and sincere and look at one's own mind as one looks at one's face in a mirror. Here is no attitude of criticizing or judging, or discriminating between right and wrong, or good and bad. It is simply observing, watching, examining. You are not a judge, but a scientist. When you observe your mind, and see its true nature clearly, you become dispassionate with regard to its emotions, sentiments and states.

It is the vague feeling 'I AM' that creates the idea of self which has no corresponding reality, and to see this truth is to realize Nirvana[.]

There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts of tiny trumpets, we have met the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.

This is what you should do; love the Earth and sun and the animals...