Quotes About Awakening

One day you're going through life and everything seems perfectly ordinary, and then you stumble across a person who makes you feel so alive….

May all of us have the courage to open ourselves to the time that we live in, to let it shape us as we, in turn, shape it. May we perceive what is being asked of us. May we awaken here, on this sharp edge of uncertainty.

Perchance, one day you wake in a tub of cold blood come warm. Then, will you let this whole forest of hurt love you?

Self-transformation is not just about changing yourself. It means shifting yourself to a completely new dimension of experience and perception.

Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even begun to live.

True education is awakening a love for truth...opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life.

if it's true your life flashes past your eyes before you die, then it is also the truth that your life rushes forth when you are ready to start to truly be alive.

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

The whites of the younger generation, in the colleges and universities, will see the handwriting on the wall and many of them will turn to the spiritual path of truth.

Look deep into your throbbing life and you will find the quality of the divine. You will not find a God but you will find a godliness, a truth, an awakening, a buddha.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

The solitary monk who shook the world From pagan slumber, when the gospel trump Thunder' d its challenge from his dauntless lips In peals of truth.

Awakening to the truth is a deep realization of what you are as an experience. What is it that is listening? What is it that is feeling? Feel it. Sense it. Welcome it.

Waking up is not serious. It is a gentle remembering and an honoring of the present moment as the truth of life.

Cynics and critics wake us up. Kindness often covers up the truth and allows us to sleep on in our ignorance.

At whatever age you find the truth, that will be your real birth year! That's why man can be born even at the age of eighty!

It is only in Samadhi that you'll begin to get an inkling of who you are; and finally, it is only in nirvana that this perfect truth will become clear.

Sometimes you've got to shout the truth and wake people up.

Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.

The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream-he awoke and found it truth.

We have to awaken ourselves into that new awareness by which we can know the absolute truth and we can know that Divine power which is surrounding us.

For some it is harder to wake up to the truth of life than it is to fall into the sleep of death

I just want to live in a way that either wakes people up or shakes people up. Whether I have opened a wound or opened a heart, I have touched a life and helped bring a change.

A non-religious person when awaken would make others sleep. Therefore his sleeping is good. A religious person when awaken will awaken others. Therefore his awakening is good.