Quotes About Awareness

To abandon the present in order to look for things in the future is to throw away the substance and hold onto the shadow.

Please call me by my true names, so I can hear all my cries and laughter at once, so I can see that my joy and pain are one.

Vive el momento presente. Sólo el presente es la vida. No te apegues al futuro.

Making an effort at the wrong time or place dissipates our energy.

To succeed in the practice, we must stop trying to prove that everything is suffering. In fact, we must stop trying to prove anything. If we touch the truth of suffering with our mindfulness, we will be able to recognize and identify our specific suffering, its specific causes, and the way to remove those causes and end our suffering.

Birinin sarf ettiÄŸi sözlerden dolay? ac? çekeriz ve hançerlenmiÅŸ gibi hissederiz. Ve kendi düÅŸüncelerimiz de bizi her gün yüzlerce kez hançerler. Yine de çektiÄŸimiz ac?, sadece bizim ac?m?z deÄŸildir.

Debemos dejar de consumir alimentos sensoriales llevados por el deseo compulsivo de huir de nosotros mismos.

If you can be aware that you have a living body, and notice when there's tension in your body, that's already an important insight.

The first step is to stop the thinking; we need to come back to our breathing and calm our body and mind. This will bring more space and clarity so that we can name and recognize the idea, desire, or emotion that's troubling us, say hello to it, and give ourselves permission to release it.

We need to take time to stop and reflect deeply on our situation to identify what it is we're craving. And then we have to identify the hook. What is the danger? What is the suffering hidden in it? We've got to see all the

There are two ways to wash the dishes. The first is to wash the dishes in order to have clean dishes and the second is to wash the dishes in order to wash the dishes.

When we don't run away from our suffering, but we recognize it, embrace it, and look deeply into it, suffering begins to transform, and liberation and enlightenment manifest.

Como decía el Buda: «El pasado ya se ha ido y el futuro todavía no ha llegado. Solo existe un momento en el que podemos acceder a la vida y ese momento es el presente».

Movies are food for our eyes, ears, and minds. When we watch TV, the program is our food. Children who spend five hours a day watching television are ingesting images that water the negative seeds of craving, fear, anger, and violence in them. We are exposed to so many forms, colors, sounds, smells, tastes, objects of touch, and ideas that are toxic and rob our body and consciousness of their well-being.

When you hold your cup and drink your tea in mindfulness and concentration, it's like you're performing a sacred ritual, and that is a prayer.

aprender a cultivar la ausencia de miedo, fundamento de la verdadera felicidad.

If we don't practice mindfulness, our cravings and sensual desires will overwhelm us.

Advierte que el silencio viene de tu corazón y no de estar callado.

There are moments when we think we're being silent because all around us there's no sound, but unless we calm our mind, talking is still going on all the time inside our head. That's not true silence.

Realize that silence comes from your heart and not from the absence of talk.

If we don't acknowledge and look deeply at our own fears, we can draw dangers and accidents to us.

You're aware of what's happening around you, but you also stay fully present within yourself; you don't lose yourself to the surrounding conditions. That is real solitude.

Beginning anew is a wonderful practice. We can all practice beginning anew. We can always start over. With the help of deep looking, we can illuminate the present and gain a better understanding of the past. The past is within our reach, and we can transform it through meditation.

Nirvana is the complete silencing of concepts.