Quotes About Awareness

The bikku should not rest content until mental intoxicants are fully extinct.

The feeling that any task is a nuisance will soon disappear if it is done in mindfulness.

He who judges a situation impulsively is not righteous.

It is easy to see the flaws of others, hard to see one's own. One exposes flaws of others, yet hides one's own flaws.

Place your left hand, palm side up, in your right palm. Let all the muscles in your hands, fingers, arms, and legs relax. Let go of everything.

The ground for action is to be. Walk, sit, and eat in such a way that peace is possible in the here and the now.

If you truly practice mindfulness, it will never cause harm. If the practice doesn't bring about more compassion, then it's not right mindfulness.

We can recognize happiness only when we remember the times of suffering!

Look at the body as a royal chariot to which the ignorant cling, while the wise let go.

Let one embrace his own truth and devote himself to its fulfillment.

You only need to breathe mindfully and smile to your habit energy: "Oh, I got pulled away by that again." When you can recognize habit energies this way, they lose their hold on you, and you're free once again to live peacefully and happily in the present.

our forgetfulness of its sacred nature, which is also our own sacred nature.

In a place where there is something that can be distinguished by signs, in that place there is deception. If you can see the signless nature of signs, then you can see the Tathagata.

Many of us continue to run even in our sleep. We can never rest. In our dreams, in our nightmares, we continue to run.

When we walk with solidity and freedom, and when mindfulness of our breathing brings us solidity, freedom, peace, and joy, then the Pure Land is there right away.

Developing an outward mindset is a matter of learning to see beyond ourselves. Our hope for you, the reader, is that this book will make such mindset change completely tangible to you and that you will achieve the results at work and at home that only an outward mindset can bring.

Seeing people as people rather than as objects enables better thinking because such thinking is done in response to the truth: others really are people and not objects.

organizational improvement, even turnaround, is less a matter of getting the wrong people off the bus than a matter of helping people see. It is a matter of changing mindset.

Self-deception actually determines one's experience in every aspect of life.

Self-deception is like this. It blinds us to the true causes of problems, and once we're blind, all the "solutions" we can think of will actually make matters worse.

Of all the problems in organizations, self-deception is the most common, and the most damaging.

There is no solution to the problem of lack of commitment, for example, without a solution to the bigger problem—the problem that I can't see that I'm not committed.

That's usually the case. Identify someone with a problem, and you'll be identifying someone who resists the suggestion that he has one. That's self-deception—the problem of not knowing and resisting the possibility that one has a problem.

Am I as vigilant in demanding the eradication of my own bigotry as I am in demanding the eradication of theirs?