Quotes About Awakening

clearly remembering who you are: one with all existence. Therefore, the universal consciousness within you awakens itself.

Her momentary awakening can be called a "glimpse of freedom" or a "touch of grace." Many who experience it feel distressed when it passes, but its transience can offer encouragement to keep entering the silence of meditation

It requires continual alignment with the truth we have seen while awakening. It is more enduring—and therefore more challenging—than having initial moments of awakening.

Most have neither done a practice nor had a conscious longing for awakening.2 Many spiritual teachers speculate that this is happening because we live in desperate times and need an influx of aware, creative, compassionate people who will actively serve others and contribute fresh ideas. This is a radical change from the traditional spiritual path of withdrawing from society and from the 1960s movements when young people felt a need to drop out of the mainstream to seek social alternatives.

Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Paul of Tarsus, and Milarepa the Tibetan saint are examples of the sudden transformation from fighter to spiritual seeker. Siddhartha was a wealthy prince and father, but when he saw suffering and death for the first time, he plunged dramatically into a spiritual search, leaving home to pursue truth and to become the enlightened Buddha.

Journeying from despair into a transformed perspective, through energy, is common for many people who awaken without understanding or preparation

Many scriptures suggest this longing arises from an unconscious, deeper part of self that wants to be remembered.

Knowing the truth and feeling the spirit leap are kinesthetic and cellular, which is how awakening expands us into the unfamiliar territory of enlightenment

What is predictable after an awakening or mystical insight is that the trajectory of our life is changed. We undergo a process of restructuring our energy, consciousness, and lifestyle.

And as we awaken, our collective experience awakens. As the Buddha reportedly said, "When I woke up, the world woke up.

When we are in a deeply spiritual transition we can lose interest in work, social interactions, and other life activities. We can feel lost when a familiar enthusiasm has vanished or we struggle to find the motivation to engage the world. This is a stage of awakening. It can last for a long time, and our old drives will not return in the same familiar forms. Peter was thirty-eight when he had an abrupt and intense energy awakening and psychic opening.

That one individual should awaken in another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox.

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious. — George Orwell, 1984

She'd observed this before: how -- ironically -- it took death to make one feel momentarily alive, truly present, minute to minute.

They got back to the house late. Myron's father was feigning sleep in the recliner. Some habits die hard. Myron woke him up. He startled to consciousness. Pacino never overacted his much.

Well, well." He turned toward the doorway. The nurse, a heavy woman with reading glasses perched upon her huge bosom, strolled in. Her name tag read BERTHA BONDY. She looked down at him and frowned. "Welcome to the free world, sleepyhead. How are you feeling?" It took Mike a second or two to find his voice. "Like I kissed a Mac truck." "Probably be more sanitary than what you were doing. Are you thirsty?" "Parched." Bertha

He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.

YaÅŸam?n?n tek huzurlu dakikalar? sabah gözlerini ilk açt??? anla bilincini tam olarak toparlad??? an aras?nda geçen o k?sac?k süreydi; sonunda uyan?p günün capcanl? kabusuna ad?m atmadan önceki o birkaç saniye.

My memory stirred.

Her sabah bir kedinin enerjisiyle ve iyi niyetlerle dolup taÅŸarak uyan?yor, sonra o iç karart?c? korku bast?r?yordu...

There was a time, long ago, when the only peaceful moments of her existence were those from the time she opened her eyes in the morning until she attained full consciousness, a matter of seconds until when finally roused she entered the day's wakeful nightmare.

Hey, Mr. Nakata. Gramps. Fire! Flood! Earthquake! Revolution! Godzilla's on the loose! Get up !

When the fire goes out, you'll start feeling the cold. You'll wake up whether you want to or not.

It's good when food tastes good, it's kind of like proof you're alive.