Quotes About Awakening

and sprang well from her bed." Helena

There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.

I think perhaps we want a more conscious life.

She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.

Or perhaps, the thought seized her, perhaps instead of his smile it was she who had changed. She who, in the long, wind-creaked silence, had emerged from the increment of codes and loyalties to her real, unfettered self. She who now felt his air of appraisal as nothing more than an understanding of the unfulfilled woman that until this moment had lain within her brooding and unadmitted, reproved out of consciousness by the insistence of an outgrown, routine fidelity.

It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have time to get back.

The lark now leaves his wat'ry nestAnd, climbing, shakes his dewy wings.

Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all.

You are free, you just don't know it" ~Michael to Sarah

Jealousy is the forerunner of love, and often its awakener.

I want to know what became of the changes we waited for love to bring/Were they only the fitful dreams of some greater awakening?

We don't need more Hindus, more Christians, or more Muslims - we need more Buddhas, more Jesuses, and more Krishnas - then there will be true change. Every human being has that inner potential.

I thought I'd stumbled on Sleeping Beauty and her ugly sister,' said another voice, 'waiting for the kiss of true love to wake them from their slumbers. Forgive me if I didn't oblige.

Wake up Lovers, It is time to start the Journey! Let us kiss the ground & flow like a river towards the Ocean. Only love can lead the way.

Those who don't feel this love pulling them like a river, those who don't drink dawn like a cup of springwater or take in sunset like a supper, those who don't want to change, let them sleep.

Love's secret is always lifting its head out from under the covers, "Here I am!"

Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life.

In the crystal of the awakened consciousness, one facet is love.

That love of the practice of ending suffering will probably be all of the awakening that you would ever desire.

Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.

When we start to heal and perceive what I call love consciousness, we begin to perceive reality.

It's the beginning of your day. You awake and look around you, feeling perhaps a joyful expectation, or perhaps an awful dread. No matter which, remember this: God loves you with an infinite love.

One day, upon awakening from troubled dreams, Gregor Samsa found himself, in his bed, transformed into a monstrous vermin." —Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis One day, upon awakening, Haileab Asgedom found himself, in America, transformed into a monstrous black beetle.

And his face—the way he laughed—why he didn't look like no fool at all, boys. But just as if he'd waked up!