Quotes About Awareness

we are very good at preparing to live but not very good at living. we can spend 10 yrs to get a diploma or a degree, car, job but have difficulty remembering that we are alive. every breathe we take can be filled with joy, peace, serenity. we only need to be awake and alive in the moment.

The way we live our daily lives is what most effects the situation of the world. If we can change our daily lives, then we can change our governments and… the world. Our president and governments are us. They reflect our lifestyle and our way of thinking

While you are walking, smile and be in the here and now, and you will transform that place into paradise.

If you are a poet, you will clearly see a cloud floating on this sheet of paper. Thich Nhat Hanh

En esta comida veo, con toda claridad, la presencia del universo entero sustentando mi existencia.

You can choose what to focus on, and therefore what to be. You can choose to be your in-breath and out-breath. You can choose to listen with your whole being to the sound of the rain or the wind, and in some way to be one with the rain or the wind. Listening to sounds in this way can be very joyful. When you are in touch with these refreshing and healing elements, you are being, and not thinking.

The Buddha said, "I have looked deeply into the state of mind of unhappy people and have seen hidden under their suffering a very sharp knife. Because they don't see that sharp knife in themselves, it is difficult for them to deal with suffering." Your

Whether or not one is alive depends on whether one is mindful.

To return home, to see into one's own nature, is the end aimed at by the practitioner, But how is one to see into one's own nature? It is necessary to bring light to one's existence, to live life, to render present and permanent the awareness of being. Put in another way, it is necessary that one sees the cyprus in the courtyard. If one does not see the presence of the cyprus in his own garden, how can one see into his own nature?

Most of the time, our head is so full of thoughts that we have no space to listen to ourselves or anyone else.

Thich Nhat Hanh

To cultivate mindfulness in ourselves is to cultivate the Buddha within, to cultivate the Holy Spirit.

A thought is like the flame of a lamp, and it proceeds through causes and conditions.

People say walking on water is a miracle, but to me walking peacefully on earth is the real miracle

Ser capaz de detenerte y advertir el momento presente forma parte de la definición de felicidad. No es posible ser feliz en el futuro. No es una cuestión de creer en ello, sino de experimentarlo.

Suppose a friend who has come a long way to visit is having a cup of tea with us. Mindfulness helps the time we spend with her to be a time we won't forget.

We think that by seeking pleasure we'll avoid suffering. But this doesn't work.

When we've accumulated so much knowledge inside, we don't have the capacity to digest it. It's like when we eat too much food, we can't digest it and we become constipated.

The idea that doing dishes is unpleasant can occur to us only when we are not doing them. Once we're standing in front of the sink with our sleeves rolled up and our hands in warm water, it's really not bad at all.

Qué clase de alimentos he estado ingiriendo que han alimentado este sufrimiento?». Cuando empieces a descubrir la clase de alimentos que has estado tomando quizá te eches a llorar.

out. Bring your awareness to the different parts of your body in turn, and allow them to relax.

If you have lost someone and if you have cried so very much, please look deeply and recognize that the true nature of your beloved is the nature of no birth and no death, no coming and no going.

mindfulness means reclaiming attention

The first mindfulness training is important to help us remain free people. Freedom is above all else freedom from our own notions and concepts. If we get caught in our notions and concepts, we can make ourselves suffer and we can also make those we love suffer.