Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes use of thinking, honoring its value and its power. Awareness is more like a vessel which can hold and contain our thinking, helping us to see and know our thoughts as thoughts rather than getting caught up in them in reality.

As you begin befriending your breath, you see immediately that unawareness is everywhere.

Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?

This is it.

The awareness is not part of the darkness or the pain; it holds the pain, and knows it, so it has to be more fundamental, and closer to what is healthy and strong and golden within you.

Thought doesn't wrap around awareness. Awareness wraps around thought.

When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.

When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.