What is the relationship between awareness and thinking? Awareness is the space in which thoughts exist when that space has become conscious of itself.

Be aware of your breathing. Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking and creates space.

I usually congratulate people when they tell me, "I don't know who I am anymore".

You have so much to learn from your enemies.

I can sometimes sit for two hours in a room with almost no thought. Just complete stillness. Sometimes when I go for walks, there's also complete stillness; there's no mental labeling of sense perceptions. There's simply a sense of awe or wonder or openness, and that's beautiful.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

As long as we define ourselves in terms of our pain and our problems, we will never be free from them.