Quotes About Awakening

I was well aware that the fiend was not dead but sleeping

Is this how you act toward your honored guest? You must take him out onto the street and walk him around a bit to wake him up. The cold will do him good. He's lying in the snow. Isn't that cold enough?

I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.

Whatever one may say, the happiest moment of the happy man is the moment ... falling asleep, and the unhappiest moment of the unhappy that of his awaking

Virtue cannot be taught, no more than genius…We would thus be just as foolish to expect that our moral systems and ethics might awaken the virtuous, noble, and saintly as that our aesthetics might awaken poets, sculptors, and musicians.

Cuando oigo música, mi imaginación juega a menudo con la idea de que la vida de todos los hombres y la mía propia no son más que sueños de un espíritu eterno, buenos o malos sueños, de que cada muerte es un despertar.

Cuando oigo música, mi imaginación juega a menudo con la idea de que la vida de todos los hombres, y la mía propia, no son más que sueños de un espíritu eterno, buenos o malos; de que cada muerte es un despertar.

Bütün bunlar elbette, hayat?n bir rüya, ölümün de bu rüyadan uyan?? olarak nitelendirilebileceÄŸi anlam?na gelir. Ancak unutulmamal?d?r ki kiÅŸilik ve birey, bu rüya haline aittir, uyanm?? bilince deÄŸil.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. Maybe many of us won't be here to greet her, but on a quiet day, if I listen very carefully, I can hear her breathing.

The harbinger of harsh reality:

I got up at 5 o'clock and saw the sun rise in a marvelous sky. A bright heart of light with a green rim fell on my bed three times.

But, like the rest of mankind, we lived our lives unconscious as children, full of imagination, ideals, and illusions, and then we awoke; it was all over.

I wish I had the power to tell them that the despair of their hearts was not to be final, and their night was not without hope. For the battle they lost can never be lost. For that which they died to save can never perish. Through all the darkness, through all the shame of which men are capable, the spirit of man will remain alive on this earth. It may sleep, but it will awaken. It may wear chains, but it will break through. And man will go on.

I was still a prisoner in my nightmares, and every morning the play began again.

If the above observations are correct, no external interventions have a chance to create a better world unless they are associated with a profound transformation of human beings.

We need to increasingly live from the fullness of our whole hearts in order to become who we are meant to be and play the significant role that is ours to play. We want to be awake and alert. We want to be women who live their lives on purpose.

know—let the tears come. For all that you wished you had and did not receive. I share Kacey's story not only to help you know what you were meant to have, but also to awaken your heart to the healing Jesus longs for you.

A person who is asleep is either lost in deep unconsciousness or absorbed in a dream. Metaphorically, this was how the Buddha must have seen both his previous self as well as everyone else he had known: they either were blind to the questions of existence or sought consolation from them in metaphysical or religious fantasies.

Great doubt—great awakening; Little doubt—little awakening; No doubt—no awakening.

THE ACTIONS THAT accompany the four truths describe the trajectory of dharma practice: understanding anguish leads to letting go of craving, which leads to realizing its cessation, which leads to cultivating the path. These are not four separate activities but four phases within the process of awakening itself. Understanding matures into letting go; letting go culminates in realization; realization impels cultivation.

How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America by Rick Fields (Boston: Shambhala, 1981), and my The Awakening of the West: The Encounter of Buddhism and Western

Thus awakening is not a state but a process: an ethical way of life and commitment that enables human flourishing.

Awakening is the purpose that enfolds all purposes. Whatever we do is meaningful to the extent that it leads to awakening, meaningless to the extent that it leads away from it.

I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can't