“The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another." - Thomas Merton

"Without awareness, we are simply living out our existence playing the part of life's most sophisticated robots. Without awareness, can we ever really say, "I'm alive, awake and living my life in full appreciation of each moment and what that moment has to reveal?"