Quotes About Awareness

It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

Your nature is to keep quiet. You came from silence and you have to return to silence... you are dancing only for a little while you see... a little while you are dancing.

Force yourself to be humble, until it becomes second nature. Then it will be an unconscious activity.

What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.

Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.

There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.

We must remember that knowledge of one's own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

Zen in it's essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom.

We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes. We are trying to make steady and permanent what is by nature impermanent.

Nature is really important because it's a manifestation of love that hasn't been run through human minds.

In listening and stillness there is nobody who is still, and this stillness doesn't refer to any object; it is absolutely objectless; it is our real nature.

Only those who have felt the knife can understand the wound, only the jeweller knows the nature of the jewel.

Let nature take its course and your tools will strike at the right moment.

The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see.

Wildlife of the world is disappearing, not because of a malicious and deliberate policy of slaughter and extermination, but simply because of a general and widespread ignorance and neglect.

To be awake is to be alive.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Only love can penetrate all your karmas and resistances and set your heart on fire with the awareness of its true nature.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it.

It is clear to me that unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it.

The source of all light is in the eye.

Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception

Samsara is the mind turned outwardly, lost in its projections. Nirvana is the mind turned inwardly, recognizing its true nature.