Quotes About Awareness

Nature is your friend; it helps you to win. Your enemy will have unnatural movement, therefore you will be able to know what he is going to do before he does it.

By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility.

Nature has a language of its own, or maybe those who have lived long in solitude read in it their own unconscious inner feelings and mysterious foreknowledge.

Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper.

Natural play strengthens children's self-confidence and arouses their senses-their awareness of the world and all that moves in it, seen and unseen.

A great silent space holds all of nature in its embrace. It also holds you.

Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.

It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

Wing Chun teaches you what to concentrate on, whether you're here or out in the world dealing with problems. It's second nature for me now. I don't even get to the point where there's a problem.

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

We cannot teach a flower how to grow, we can only learn from it.

Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.

When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself.

One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.

We are here to abet creation and to witness to it, to notice each other's beautiful face and complex nature so that creation need not play to an empty house.

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

The origin of the conflict, frustration, and anxiety we experience does not lie in the nature of the world itself but in our distorted conceptions of the world.

Only as a child's awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development.

He who understands nature walks close with God.

There is no debate in the scientific community...We need [Congress] to change things, not to deny what's happening.

Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind.

No matter how confused or deluded we may be at the moment, the underlying and essential nature of our being is clear and pure

The purpose of meditation is to awaken in us the sky-like nature of mind, and to introduce us to that which we really are, our unchanging pure awareness, which underlies the whole of life and death

I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature