Quotes about Awareness

It's very important as a beginner that you understand right from the start that meditation is about befriending your thinking, about holding it gently in awareness, no matter what is on your mind in a particular moment. It is not about shutting off your thoughts or changing them in any way.

The only way we have of influencing the future is to own the present, however we find it.

As you begin befriending your breath, you see immediately that unawareness is everywhere.

Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.

Meditation is a way of being, not a technique. Meditation is not about trying to get anywhere else. It is about allowing yourself to be exactly where you are and as you are, and the world to be exactly as it is in this moment, as well.

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. R. D. LAING

in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.

TRY: Asking yourself in this moment, "Am I awake?," "Where is my mind right now?

If we are to grasp the reality of our life while we have it, we will need to wake up to our moments. Otherwise, whole days, even a whole life, could slip past unnoticed.

no place to go, nothing to do, nothing to attain.

There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hand.

It is not that mindfulness is the "answer" to all life's problems. Rather, it is that all life's problems can be seen more clearly through the lens of a clear mind.