Quotes About Awareness

The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.

And as to me, I know of nothing else but miracles. WALT WHITMAN

Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.

If we gain something, it was there from    the beginning. If we lose anything, it is hidden nearby.

To meditate is to discover new possibilities, to awaken the capacities of us has to live more wisely, more lovingly, more compassionately, and more fully.

The suffering and happiness in our world, both individual and collective, depend on our consciousness.

Our life is shaped and determined by our thoughts. Usually we are only half conscious of the way thoughts direct our life; we are lost in thoughts as if they are reality. We take our own mental creations quite seriously, endorsing them without reservation.

Through practice, gently and gradually we can collect ourselves and learn how to be more fully with what we do.

With mindfulness, we are learning to observe in a new way, with balance and a powerful disidentification.

Meditation is not a process of getting rid of something, but one of opening and understanding. When

If this day in the lifetime of a hundred years is lost, will you ever touch it with your hands again? The

We note feelings and find that they last for only a few seconds. We pay attention to thoughts and find that they are ephemeral, that they come and go, uninvited, like clouds.

Accumulated knots in the fabric of our body, previously undetected, begin to reveal themselves as we open.

You will begin to see desire's impermanent nature, and you will also realize that you do not have to act on every thought or desire. You will learn that you can choose from the many possibilities of how to respond to desire when it arises, and you can discover a new kind of freedom, where you do not have to follow your desires, but can choose to behave in new ways in response to your desires.

Our belief in a limited and impoverished identity is such a strong habit that without it we are afraid we wouldn't know how to be.

There are several different kinds of painful feelings that we might experience, and learning to distinguish and relate to these feelings of discomfort or pain is an important part of meditation practice, because it is one of the very first things that we open to as our practice develops.

To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.

Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation.

Be rigorously mindful of the awareness of touch. We should be rigorously, ardently, intensively mindful. Do not rest when tired, scratch when itched, nor shift when cramped. We should keep our bodies and minds absolutely still and strive till the end. The uncomfortable truly is the norm; the comfortable will set us adrift on the current of illusion.

To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.

Do not scratch when itched, nor shift when cramped, nor pause when tired.

As we follow a genuine path of practice, our sufferings may seem to increase because we no longer hide from them or from ourselves. When we do not follow the old habits of fantasy and escape, we are left facing the actual problems and contradictions of our life. A

Love says, 'I am everything.' Wisdom says, 'I am nothing.' Between these two my life flows.

most often the kinds of pains we encounter in meditative attention are not indications of physical problems. They are the painful, physical manifestations of our emotional, psychological, and spiritual holdings and contractions.