Quotes about Awareness

If you can be aware that you have a living body, and notice when there's tension in your body, that's already an important insight.

The first step is to stop the thinking; we need to come back to our breathing and calm our body and mind. This will bring more space and clarity so that we can name and recognize the idea, desire, or emotion that's troubling us, say hello to it, and give ourselves permission to release it.

The space itself, your home, naturally has a message and intention.

Nirvana is the complete silencing of concepts.

You must do whatever is necessary to be able to do this: recognize the presence of the person you love several times each day.

Whenever everyone's eyes are fixed on the earth—looking at the trees, plants, hills, mountains, or each other—then we know we are in the historical dimension, the world of birth and death. But when everyone's eyes look into space then we have entered the ultimate dimension, the unborn and undying world.

There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.

How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never was and never will be.

the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.