Quotes About Awareness

If your nature is infinite awareness trapped in a body, suddenly there's a lack of happiness, a lack of freedom. No matter what you get you'll never be happy, because these are all trinkets.

Quiet is the element of discerning what is essential.

So, those who hate, those who are violent in nature, live in a world of hate and fear and violence inside themselves, inside their minds, inside their awareness.

Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.

The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.

It is only when we are by ourselves that we can know others. When we are with other human beings we are distracted. People try and dream us into their dreams.

My job has always been to hold a mirror up to nature.

I think for me to do a traditional sitting meditation I would really have to spend a couple weeks working at it. The only way I know how to efficiently, effectively meditate is by walking in nature.

The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.

And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life.

Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.

Draw near to Nature. Then try like some first human being to say what you see and experience and love and lose.

A superficial education would be worse than none. But a full education would open every man's eyes to the nature of human existence.

Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man.

Nature does not forgive.

To reflect on everything in daily life is to nurture your buddha nature.

When you rest in presence and pure awareness, sometimes everything is experienced as love because you're connected with all that is, and love is simply the nature of being.

Our minds and memories are crowded with the common experience of nature.

Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty of sense, and keep the heart awake to love and beauty.

All babies are Buddha babies.

Love is ...not a fact in nature of which we become aware, but rather a creation of the human imagination.

We have to start listening to nature now.

You think you're enlightened. But as my lama said, when you realize the intrinsic nature of the mind, then you start to meditate. It's not the end, it's the beginning.