Quotes About Awareness

The visible, in-your-face manifestations of oppression have been mostly eliminated. But you scarcely can find a Black student who cannot recall or give you a litany of instances when he or she was automatically assumed to be intellectually incompetent.

Gain insight into who you are and what you do

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

Meditation is not to escape from society, but to come back to ourselves and see what is going on. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. With mindfulness, we know what to do and what not to do to help

The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention.

There is no way to happiness — happiness is the way.

We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the Earth. Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

Every day we touch what is wrong, and, as a result, we are becoming less and less healthy. That is why we have to learn to practice touching what is not wrong—inside us and around us. When we get in touch with our eyes, our heart, our liver, our breathing, and our non-toothache and really enjoy them, we see that the conditions for peace and happiness are already present.

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.

Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.

Smile, breathe and go slowly.

Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21)

We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.

Life is available only in the present moment.

I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.

Human being is the only creature that is stupid enough to feel as intelligent and intelligent enough to understand its stupidity!

This outward focus prepares the members for change. It gets them looking beyond their own needs to the needs of their community and the world.

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