MINDFUL LIVING (AWARENESS)

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
- Anais Nin

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
- Buddha

The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
- Henry Miller

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
- James Thuber

The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there.
- Monica Baldwin

May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.
- M. Scott Peck

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
- Henry David Thoreau