Quotes about Awareness

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love. We must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, aspirations, and suffering of the person we love. This is the ground of real love. You cannot resist loving another person when you really understand him or her.

A person who looks at the table and can see the universe is a person who can see the way.

Make the practice pleasant, that is what I beg you to do.

True happiness isn't found in success, money, fame, or power. True happiness should be found in the here and the now. With that kind of insight you can truly relax.

You have to train yourself, to learn how to go home to the present moment, to the here and now.

We must begin to live fully and truly, every moment of our daily lives.

Enlightenment is when the wave realizes that it is the ocean.

Now I see that if one doesn't know how to die, one can hardly know how to live - because death is a part of life.

We have to learn to build safety with our in-breath and our out-breath. We have to learn to build safety with our steps, with our way of acting and reacting, with our words and our efforts to build communication.

The fear, the anger and the despair is born on the ground of wrong perception.

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.