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“Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes no use of thinking, honoring it's value and it's power. Awareness is more like a vessel which can hold and contain our thinking, helping us to see and know our thought as thought rather than getting caught up in them as reality.”

“Awareness is not trying to change things; awareness is not trying to fixing anything. You can start to notice that there is this presence of awareness within you, which is not trying to change your humanness. It's not trying to alter you. Just as important, it's not trying to alter others. This awareness is totally inclusive. It is a state of being where everything is okay simply the way it is.”

“Awareness is observation without choice, condemnation, or justification. Awareness is silent observation from which there arises understanding without the experiencer and the experienced. In this awareness, which is passive, the problem or the cause is given an opportunity to unfold itself and so give its full significance. In awareness there is no end in view to be gained, and there is no becoming, the 'me' and the 'mine' not being given the continuity.”

“Awareness is our true self; it’s what we are. So we don’t have to try to develop awareness; we simply need to notice how we block awareness, with our thoughts, our fantasies, our opinions, and our judgments. We’re either in awareness, which is our natural state, or we’re doing something else. The mark of mature students is that most of the time, they don’t do something else. They’re just here, living their life. Nothing special.”

“Awareness is that state of mind which takes in everything-the crows flying across the sky, the flowers on the trees, the people sitting in front, the colors they are wearing - being extensively aware, which needs watching, observing, taking in the shape of the leaf, the shape of the trunk, the shape of the head of another, what he is doing.”

“Awareness is that which is reading these words right now, whatever “that” is. You know without a doubt that there is something reading these words right now and awareness is precisely what that is.”

“Awareness is the stepping stone to truth, truth is the stepping stone to light, and light is the stepping stone to God. Existence is the stepping stone to time, time is the stepping stone to reality, and reality is the stepping stone to experience. Virtue is the stepping stone to love, love is the stepping stone to enlightenment, and enlightenment is the stepping stone to freedom. Valor is the stepping stone to hope, hope is the stepping stone to faith, and enlightenment is the stepping stone to miracles. Compassion is the stepping stone to understanding, understanding is the stepping stone to peace, and peace is the stepping stone to humanity. Humility is the stepping stone to patience, patience is the stepping stone to discipline, and discipline is the stepping stone to character. Contentment is the stepping stone to fulfillment, fulfillment is the stepping stone to happiness, and happiness is the stepping stone to laughter.”