“Awareness itself allows us to stand at the river’s edge without getting sucked into the current. We are liberated from the tyranny of the monkey-mind. Thoughts are still there. They may be quiet or turbulent, focused or wild and scattered. But we have stopped identifying with them. We have become the awareness, not the thoughts.”
— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
from “Turning Confusion into Clarity: A Guide to the Foundation Practices of Tibetan Buddhism”