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Awareness Quotes by Nhat Hanh
- Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration.
- May we awaken from the dream that we are different.
- If you find yourself in some difficulty, step aside, and allow Buddha to take your place. The Buddha is in you.
- The Noble Eight-Fold Path is the path of living in awareness. Mindfulness is the foundation. By practicing mindfulness, you can develop concentration, which enables you…
- Our smile affirms our awareness and determination to live in peace and joy.
- Without full awareness of breathing, there can be no development of meditative stability and understanding.
- If we face our unpleasant feelings with care, affection, and nonviolence, we can transform them into a kind of energy that is healthy and has…
- A look filled with understanding, an accepting smile, a loving word, a meal shared in warmth and awareness are the things which create happiness in…
- Our smile will bring happiness to us and to those around us. Even if we spend a lot of money on gifts for everyone in…
- True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There's no separation between self and other, and everything is…
- When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled…
- Around us, life bursts with miracles--a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops. If you live in…
- If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything.
- Do not avoid contact with suffering or close your eyes before suffering. Do not lose awareness of the existence of suffering in the life of…
- Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity.
- Each thought, each action in the sunlight of awareness becomes sacred.
- May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.
- Sometimes it is better not to talk about art by using the word "art". If we just act with awareness and integrity, our art will…
- If a child smiles, if an adult smiles, that is very important. If in our daily lives we can smile, if we can be peaceful…
- Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.
More Awareness Quotes
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- Patience is the companion of wisdom. — Saint Augustine
- There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we… — Richard Bach
- Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all. — Arthur Balfour
- There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened. — Charles Baudelaire
- You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are… — Scott Adams
- We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the… — Joko Beck
- To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright. — Walter Benjamin
- Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our… — Ezra Taft Benson
- If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. — William Blake
- The eye altering, alters all. — William Blake