Quotes about Consciousness
With mindful walking, our steps are no longer a means to arrive at an end.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
You have to train yourself, to learn how to go home to the present moment, to the here and now.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
We must begin to live fully and truly, every moment of our daily lives.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Enlightenment is when the wave realizes that it is the ocean.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Everything is in your own heart.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Ignorance is in each cell of our body and our consciousness. It's like a drop of ink diffused in a glass of water.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Do everything in mindfulness so you can really be there, so you can love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what's the use of seeing?
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
We may think that if we ignore our fears, they'll go away. But if we bury worries and anxieties in our consciousness, they continue to affect us and bring us more sorrow.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
All concepts, including those of "unity" and of duality, are foreign to experience which can be described as non-conceptual.
- Thich Nhat Hanh