Quotes About Awareness

I nod to Death in passing, aware of the sound of my own feet upon my path. The

You truly see by not trying to see.

All animals and wayfarers are Tukten's friends, and listen to him carefully, yet he rarely speaks except when spoken to, and never seems to speak too much; without obtruding, he becomes the centre of each situation, so naturally does he belong where the moment finds him.

knowing freedom was dangerous.

The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at unextraordinary times, to be of present, nothing-but-the-present, to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life.

Moment by moment, breath by breath...that is my greatest teaching.

In this very breath that we now take Lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.

only to be wholly present in this moment, moment after moment

In worrying about the future, I despoil the present; in my escape, I leave a true freedom behind

Nen is mindfulness, attention to the present with a quality of vibrant awareness, as if this present moment were one's last.

the hand held before the eye conceals the greatest mountain, so the little earthly life hides from the glance the enormous lights and mysteries of which the world is full, and he who can draw it away from before his eyes, as one draws away a hand, beholds the great shining of the inner worlds. RABBI NACHMANN OF BRATZLAV

In the boulder at my back, there is a shudder, so slight that at another time it might have gone unnoticed. The tremor comes again; the earth is nudging me. And still I do not see.

Our thoughts create our reality -- where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.

Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: We would be more alive if we did more of this and Life would be more lovely if we did less of that. Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.

Kita hidup dalam sangkar yang terbuat dari tuntutan, rutinitas, dan kebiasaan, dan setelah begitu lama hidup dalam batas-batas ini, kita lupa bahwa sesungguhnya terperangkap

Years of charismatic psychological indoctrination suppressed awareness. Later on, seeking professional help was not an option.

realized with a shock that the loss of innocence never stopped happening, that he was still losing it, that it was like a wound that never healed, and he would probably go on losing it, drop by drop, until the day he died.

Our real beliefs are generally not to be found at the level of ego.

Free won't is true freedom of will. Freedom from the will of ego-mind.

This is where it begins to get mind-bending. The colors we experience are just appearances in the mind. The light itself does not have color; it is simply energy with a particular frequency, the color coming from the representation of that frequency in the mind. The same is true of every other quality we experience. We seem to be experiencing the world directly, but in truth all that we experience is a representation of the world out there appearing in our field of knowing.

If we have learned anything from the liberation movements, we should have learned how difficult it is to be aware of the ways in which we discriminate until they are forcefully pointed out to us. A liberation movement demands an expansion of our moral horizons, so that practices that were previously regarded as natural and inevitable are now seen as intolerable.

In some parts of the world, what you are doing is already apparent. According to the World Health Organization, the warming of the planet caused an additional 140,000 deaths in 2004, as compared with the number of deaths there would have been had average global temperatures remained as they were during the period 1961 to 1990. This means that climate change is already causing, every week, as many deaths as occurred in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

we are just normal people, concerned about animals, the environment, or our health.

Climate change is already causing, every week, as many deaths as occurred in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.