“Awareness is aliveness.”

“How aware you are is how alive you are.”

“Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive—that you can touch the miracle of being alive—then that is a kind of enlightenment”

“No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.”

“Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.”

“The rock, for its part, is not even aware of our existence because we are alive for only a brief instant of its lifespan. To it, we are like flashes in the dark.”

“Fear is not something to be ashamed of. We cannot condemn fear without simultaneously condemning the fact that we are alive. It is part of being alive. Fear is valuable. Take every opportunity where you feel fear, to step into the feeling of the fear, explore it. Bring awareness to it. And question it fully.”

“Not being tense but ready.
Not thinking but not dreaming.
Not being set but flexible.
Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement.
It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.”

“The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.”

“The idea of consciousness requires not only an awareness of things, but also the awareness that one is aware.”