“It's like looking at the sun, that's how infinity is. You can't look at it for too long or you dissolve. The bands of your attention break. But if you look at it in specific ways, you can become something or someone much more conscious.” IfsWayLooksLongAttentionBreakSunAwarenessBuddhismBandConsciousInfinity Author:Frederick Lenz
“I am a cautious pilgrim of the night, a tentative wanderer among the stars. My awareness of my home in the universe is fleeting and incomplete. Into the homeless home of the sun-faced buddha I have stepped but briefly. My quest, such as it is, is rewarded with faint lights and scrawny cries, a trait here and trait there, a hint of the infinite and a tingle in the spine. Of "minute particulars" I will make my way.” WayHomeLightNightUniverseStarsSunAtheismMinutesAwarenessCryInfinitePositive AtheismMy WayTraitsQuestsHomelessFleetingHintsCautiousIncompleteSpinePilgrimWanderers Author:Chet Raymo
“To meditate does not mean to fight with a problem. To meditate means to observe. Your smile proves it. It proves that you are being gentle with yourself, that the sun of awareness is shining in you, that you have control of your situation. You are yourself, and you have acquired some peace.” MeanDoeProblemFightingPeaceSituationSunMeditationAwarenessProveShiningSmileGentleProve ItYour Smile Book:The Sun My Heart Source: The Sun My Heart
“I want to feel myself part of things, of the great drift and swirl: not cut off, missing things, like being sent to bed early as a child, the blinds being drawn while the sun and cheerful voices came through the chink from the garden.” WantFeelsChildrenVoiceSunCuttingAwarenessMissingBedGardenCheerfulSwirlsChinks Author:Marion Milner
“The dawning of the light of awareness is the new birth, where the sun rises and the day breaks within you.” LightBreakSunAwarenessBirthWithin YouSun Rise Author:Alberto Villoldo
“A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part” WorldNeedsMindDoeSelfLightHappensEnergyEffortSunMeditationAwarenessQuietMiracleWake UpSelf AwarenessCalmActiveAwakeningRisingSteady Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.” SunAwarenessMindfulnessShiningTransformedLive In The MomentShine On Author:Nhat Hanh
“A universe without purpose should neither depress us nor suggest that our lives are purposeless. Through an awe-inspiring cosmic history we find ourselves on this remote planet in a remote corner of the universe, endowed with intelligence and self-awareness. We should not despair, but should humbly rejoice in making the most of these gifts, and celebrate our brief moment in the sun.” ShouldSelfMomentsPurposeUniverseExistenceHistorySunOur LivesAwarenessPlanetsDespairSelf AwarenessIntentionIntelligenceCornersHumbleCelebrateMeaning Of LifeAweExistentialismCosmicRejoiceDepressingAwe InspiringBrief MomentsRemotenessPurposelessness Author:Lawrence M. Krauss
“Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.” LifeSaidConsciousnessSunAwarenessSun RiseWithering Author:Joseph Wood Krutch
“Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.” SunAwarenessRaysExtendingIlluminating Author:B.K.S. Iyengar