Quotes about Awareness

Contemplating a beautiful sunrise, you're not distracted by thinking about the past or the future. The more concentrated you become, the more you see the beauty all around you. So concentration is a source of happiness.

Ignorance is in each cell of our body and our consciousness. It's like a drop of ink diffused in a glass of water.

Whenever a painful feeling or emotion arises, we should be able to be present with it, not fight it, but recognize it.

Do everything in mindfulness so you can really be there, so you can love.

While practicing mindfulness, don't be dominated by the distinction between good and evil, thus creating a battle within oneself.

The greatest miracle is to be alive.

Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what's the use of seeing?

Knowledge is the first obstacle of the mind that a meditator should be able to remove. We should not be too sure of anything.

Whether we are in the city, the countryside, or the wilderness, we need to sustain ourselves by choosing our surroundings carefully and nourishing our awareness in each moment.

In this very moment all of us are dying. Some of us are dying more slowly and some of us more quickly. If we can be alive now, it is because we're dying at every moment. We might think that someone else is dying and we're not. But we shouldn't be fooled by appearances.

Nourish yourself every day with the wonderful things that life has to offer you. Nourish yourself in the present moment. Walk in the kingdom of God.

There is a film, an image stored in your consciousness. Every time your mind goes back to the past and you look at that image or watch that film, you suffer again.