“When most people see a tree, they don't see a tree at all. They see an idea that they have developed of what a tree is.” PeopleIdeasTreeAwarenessBuddhism Author:Frederick Lenz
“Gardening is one of the rewards of middle age, when one is ready for an impersonal passion, a passion that demands patience, acute awareness of a world outside oneself, and the power to keep on growing through all the times of drought, through the cold snows, towards those moments of pure joy when all failures are forgotten and the plum tree flowers.” WorldMomentsAgeJoyPassionGrowingTreeMiddleAwarenessReadyFlowerColdPureDemandRewardsForgottenOneselfSnowGardeningMiddle AgesDroughtPlumsFlower GardenPure Joy Book:Plant Dreaming Deep: A Journal Source: Plant Dreaming Deep: A Journal
“Some people when I speak of awareness of the "inner body" call it a technique. I would not call it a technique because it is too simple for that. When the oak tree feels its roots in the earth, its connectedness with the earth, it is not practicing a technique.” PeopleFeelsBodyEarthSpeakSimpleTreeAwarenessRootsTechniqueOaksConnectednessOak Tree Author:Eckhart Tolle
“Its not about learning to trust. Its about learning what it is I place my trust in and why. Its like learning to see the forest for the trees. You cannot see the forest for the trees unless you are outside the forest.” TreeAwarenessForestsLearning To Trust Author:Bashar al-Assad
“Appreciation is like looking through a wide-angle lens that lets you see the entire forest, not just the one tree limb you walked up on.” TreeAwarenessAppreciationWideForestsAngleLensesLimbsTree Limbs Author:Doc Childre
“Who's this—alone with stone and sky? It's only my old dog and I— It's only him; it's only me; Alone with stone and grass and tree. What share we most—we two together? Smells, and awareness of the weather. What is it makes us more than dust? My trust in him; in me his trust.” TwoTogetherTreeSkyShareAwarenessDogStonesSmellWeatherDustGrassMe AloneOld Dog Book:Sequences Source: Sequences
“Awareness means to listen to me unfocused - alert of course, not fallen asleep, but alert to these birds, their chirping, alert to the wind that passes through the trees, alert to everything that is happening. Concentration excludes much, includes little. Awareness excludes nothing, includes all. Awareness is a state of no-mind. You are, yet you are not focused. You are just a mirror reflecting all, echoing all; see the beauty of it and the silence and the stillness.” MindMeanLittlesStatesCoursesSilenceTreeAwarenessWindHappeningsBirdMirrorsFocusedFallenConcentrationStillnessReflectingListen To Me Author:Rajneesh
“A Buddha is not a man of concentration, he is a man of awareness. He has not been trying to narrow down his consciousness; on the contrary, he has been trying to drop all barriers so that he becomes totally available to existence. Watch... existence is simultaneous. I am speaking here and the traffic noise is simultaneous. The train, the birds the wind blowing through the trees - in this moment the whole of existence converges. You listening to me, I speaking to you, and millions of things going on - it is tremendously rich.” MenTryingHas BeensWholeMomentsExistenceConsciousnessWatchesMillionsRichTreeAwarenessWindListeningBirdTrainAvailableContraryNoiseConcentrationBarriersTrafficSimultaneousWind Blowing Author:Rajneesh
“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.” PeopleNeedsMindStatesTreeSkyAwarenessFrontsColorFlowerShapesSittingFlyingState Of MindLeafsObservingCrowTrunks Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti