That’s how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can’t experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.

Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?

I sit before flowers
hoping they will train me in the art
of opening up

Awareness is our true self; it’s what we are. So we don’t have to try to develop awareness; we simply need to notice how we block awareness with our thoughts, our fantasies, our opinions, and our judgments. We’re either in awareness, which is our natural state, or we’re doing something else.