Quotes About Awareness

He saw that living beings suffer because they do not understand that they share one common ground with all beings.

Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.

In the process of meditation, fetters are undone; internal blocks of suffering such as resentment, fear, anger, despair, and hatred are transformed; relationships with humans and nature become easier; freedom and joy can penetrate us. We become aware of what is inside and around us;

Reality is reality. It transcends every concept. There is no concept which can adequately describe it, not even the concept of interdependence.

Friends, being lost in thoughts is one of the things that prevents us from making true contact with life. If you are ruled by worry, frustration, anxiety, anger, or jealousy, you will lose the chance to make real contact with all the wonders of life.

We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.

As the Buddha said, "The past no longer is, the future is not yet here; there is only one moment in which life is available, and that is the present moment." To meditate with mindful breathing is to bring body and mind back to the present moment so that you do not miss your appointment with life.

When we take a moment to sit and breathe before we eat, we can get in touch with the real hunger in our body. We can discover if we're eating because we're hungry or if we're eating because it's the time to eat and the food is there.

If someone were to ask, "What's the purpose of walking meditation? What's the point? Why do you practice it?" There are several answers we can give. But for me the best answer is, "Because I like it.

It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

If you know how to go back to her and listen carefully every day for five or ten minutes, healing will take place.

The only moment to be alive is in the present moment.

The fruit of mindfulness practice is the realization that peace and joy are available within us and around us, right here and right now.

If we consume toxic magazine articles, movies, or video games, they will feed our craving, our anger, and our fear.

We disregard the wonders of the present moment, thinking that heaven and the ultimate are for later, not for now.

Shallow understanding accompanies shallow compassion. Great understanding goes with great compassion.

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

The more you understand , the more you love ; the more you love , the more you understand . They are two sides of one reality . The mind of love and the mind of understanding are the same .

In our sangha, we have a porch we call, Listening to the Rain Veranda. We made it specially for that purpose— so we could sit there and listen to the rain and not need to think about anything. Listening to the rain can help the mind come to stillness.

When you wake up and you see that the Earth is not just the environment, the Earth is us, you touch the nature of interbeing.

Emptiness means to be full of everything but empty of a separate existence.

To be alive is the greatest of all miracles, and you can rejoice in being alive. When you breathe in this way, your breath is a celebration of life.

wake up to the beauties of the planet to heal yourself and wake up to the suffering of the world and try to help.

Mindfulness is the continuous practice of touching deeply every moment of daily life. To be mindful is to be truly present with your body and your mind, to bring harmony to your intentions and actions, and to be in harmony with those around you.