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“If you see your nature, you don't need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?”

Ifs Needs Mind Nature Pay Attention Awareness Clouds Doctrine Pay Attention Useless Pointing Invoke Erudition

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“Only as a child's awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development.”

Kind Children Humanity Nature Awareness Development Reverence Wholeness

Author:Rachel Carson

“Witches try to 'connect' with the world around them. Witchcraft, they say, is about the tactile, intuitive understanding of the turn of the seasons, the song of the birds; it is the awareness of all things as holy.”

World Trying Song Turns Understanding Nature Awareness Holy Bird All Things Seasons Oneness Holiness Witch Intuitive Witchcraft Tactile

Author:Tanya Luhrmann

“The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.”

Wisdom Understanding Nature Natural Awareness Understood

Book:Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Complete 14 Volumes

Source: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Complete 14 Volumes

“There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.”

“The basic nature of all conscious beings is 'self-existing wakefulness'. Self-existing meaning spontaneous or without effort and wakefulness meaning natural awareness. To ignore our basic nature, is to wander in fear and confusion, to directly realise our essential nature is to be Enlightened.”

“...we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . .”

Nature Awareness Essence Sentient Beings Buddha Nature

Author:Sogyal Rinpoche