Quotes About Awareness

Here is an exercise in advanced Right Speech. Starting tomorrow when you wake up, don't gossip. See what happens if you just give up making comments about anyone not present. Listen carefully to the voice in your mind as it is getting ready to make a comment, and think to yourself, "Why am I saying this?" Awareness of intention is the best clue for knowing whether the remark you are about to make is Right Speech. Is

Knowing the truth brings happiness.

Don't just do something, sit there!

not doing anything to change experience but rather discovering that experience is bearable.

Here is the instruction: Only connect. Wherever you are, right now, pay attention. Forever.

I would not ask you to do this practice, to undertake this path of liberation from the habits of suffering mind, unless it were a feasible path.

The next-to-last sentence that the Buddha is reported to have spoken as he was dying, before his final sentence of encouragement to his community, was "Transient are all conditioned things.

Everyone dreams, but not everybody remembers their dreams because some people go into delta they go too low.

Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf—Tribe Unknown

The Nez Perce say: "Every animal knows more than you do.

What we must do is encourage a sea change in attitude, one that acknowledges that we are a part of the living world, not apart from it.

Far and away the biggest threat to the ocean is ignorance. It's a lack of understanding that what we put in, what we take out matters—not just to the ocean, but matters to us. The ocean cannot be regarded as the planet's ultimate dumpster or the ultimate place to get free food.

There are different kinds of truth. And if our kind is more mature than theirs, it's so only because we know that.

It's not enough just to learn what there ISN'T; we need to know what there IS.

Technically he was right, Jarel knew. So why should it seem so important?

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.

Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted.

She looked; and it was as if new eyes had been put into her head.

Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not.

Laura had brought her sensitive conscience into the country with her, just as she had brought her umbrella, though so far she had not remembered to use either.

Let me never speak casually.

The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.

It is too easy lately to drink too much. To love the warm way it numbs. And I feel Jake watching me; he's counting my drinks too.

By nature, looking is a disruptive task.