Quotes About Awareness

When an enlightened person appears, the Way echoes like the majestic sound of the rising tide. When the tide rises, all false views are swept away.

Everyone is breathing, but not everyone is aware that they're breathing.

We tend to think of nourishment only as what we take in through our mouths, but what we consume with our eyes, our ears, our noses, our tongues, and our bodies is also food. The conversations going on around us, and those we participate in, are also food. Are we consuming and creating the kind of food that is healthy for us and helps us grow?

As a free person I can always come and go, Not caught in ideas of is and is not. Not caught in ideas of being and non-being Let your steps be leisurely.

If you take good care of the present, there is no need to worry about the future.

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All is in the word "know." To know is to realize. Realization is mindfulness. All the work of meditation is aimed at awakening us in order to know one and only one thing: birth and death can never touch us in any way whatsoever.

Thích Nh?t H?nh

We have created a culture of constant snacking, drinking, and eating.

The wise man carefully, moment by moment, one by one, eliminates the stains of his mind.

Time passes quickly, Great King. If I don't use the strength and energy I now possess as a young man, old age will arrive too soon and I will feel deep regret.

Practice living every moment of your daily life deeply and in freedom. If that's what you really want, then what you need to do is let go of pursuing the past, the future, and all your worries, and come back to the present moment.

As you will see, mindfulness practice does not need to be another "add-on." Its beauty lies in the fact that it can be fully and easily integrated into every act of our daily living, reminding us to live the present moment fully.

We ought to listen to music or sit and practice breathing at the beginning of every meeting or discussion.

Angry words backfire upon the speaker.

Mindfulness is the capacity to shine the light of awareness onto what's going on here and now. Mindfulness is the heart of meditation practice.

The person who suffers most in this world is the person who has many wrong perceptions, and most of our perceptions are erroneous.

EMBRACING SUFFERING If we let the suffering come up and just take over our mind, we can be quickly overwhelmed by it.

Do not be concerned with what others have or have not done. Observe your own actions and inactions.

This is Buddhist meditation-to penetrate, to be one with, in order to really understand.

The Buddha said that if we know how to look deeply into our suffering and recognize its source of food, we are already on the path of emancipation.

In a family, if there is one person who practices mindfulness, the entire family will be more mindful.

We practice so that each moment of our life becomes real life. And, therefore, when we meditate, we sit for sitting; we don't sit for something else.

If we practice walking meditation, we walk just for walking, not to arrive.