Quotes About Awakening

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And he, who had slept with countless women, suddenly realized that he'd been nothing but a green boy. Because it had never been like this. That had been his body. This was his soul.

Although anything can happen when under the influence of ice water.

There are many different aspects to a formal meditation practice. But the real meditation practice is how you interface with life from moment-to-moment, no matter what's happening. Especially when you are awake, which is pretty much most of the time except for deep sleep.

ONE SUMMER MORNING while I was still a virgin though my virginity was on its last legs, I woke up and didn't want to go to New Jersey.

The signs accumulated. But I did not respond. I would not wake up. We will not wake up. This terrifying sleep of denial. Is it an underlying belief that we as a human species are not worth it? Do we secretly feel we have lost our right to be here in all our selfishness and stupidity, our cruelty and greed?

The greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.

A experiência de ser acordada de um sono profundo pela peça – e logo depois lançada a uma certeza tão intensa do poder das mulheres, das pessoas e do mundo, por conta dos movimentos que gerou – fez com que eu, artista, me tornasse ativista política.

Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up.

The individual is reminded that in him, no less than in the Archetypal Universe, real life must be born if real life is to be lived.

The third phase—the phase of Being Kindness—has to do with learning to live from the awakened heart.

As cool as the pale wet leaves of lily-of-the-valley She lay beside me in the dawn.

Die Natur schlägt im Menschen die Augen auf und bemerkt, dass sie da ist.

On the far horizon waved some flicker of light My heart, a city of suffering, awoke in a state of dream My eyes, turning restless, still dreaming, the morning, dawning in this vacuous abode of separation.

El verdadero dolor que mantiene despiertas las cosas es una pequeña quemadura infinita

A me piace veder correre pieno di fuoco ciò che era stato quieto per anni e anni.

I've often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake

I touched her sleeping breasts,and they opened to me suddenlylike spikes of hyacinth.

The pheasant had slipped from slumber into death, and new nothing of the end.

La necessidad e pobreza, la hambre. Que no ay mejor maestra en el mundo, no ay mejor despertadora e aviuadora de ingenios.

I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.

I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up.

When a man sleeps, he is steeped and lost in a limp toneless happiness: awake he is restless, tortured by his body and the illusion of existence. Why have men spent the centuries seeking to overcome the awakened body? Put it to sleep, that is a better way. Let it serve only to turn the sleeping soul over, to change the blood-stream and thus make possible a deeper and more refined sleep.

Ignite the mind's spark to rise the sun in you