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Quotes About Awakening

Each of us will be able to see God if we can ignite the spiritual light.
~ Debasish Mridha
Sometimes things happen in our lives that wake us up to the truth, about how short life is. It's then we wonder why we spent so much wasted time looking too far into the future.
~ Ron Baratono
There are only two profound ways to reach enlightenment: Laugh by yourself, or get tickled.
~ Saurabh Sharma
I realized I loved him after everything went wrong so I wallowed in self-pity and prayed I could wake up.
~ Dominic Riccitello
You have to change your life if you're not happy, and wake up if things aren't going the way you want.
~ Keanu Reeves
Pleasure puts you to sleep and pain wakes you up. If you don't want to suffer, don't go to sleep.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Struggle," says Swami Kripalu, "changes an ordinary human into a spiritually awake person.
~ Stephen Cope
Marion Woodman. Rolling Away the Stone. Sounds True Recordings: Boulder, CO, 1989.
~ Stephen Cope
Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments.
~ Stephen Crane
They are asleep. This is the condition they prefer. They are afraid of the world and sleep is a way of dealing with their fear. Someday they will wake. Perhaps something frightful will happen. Indeed, there is no better invitation to the frightful than ignorance - that is, sleep. (29)
~ Stephen Dobyns
And then I saw him and nothing was ever the same again. The sky was never the same colour, the moon never the same shape: the air never smelt the same, food never tasted the same. Every word I knew changed its meaning, everything that once was stable and firm became as insubstantial as a puff of wind, and every puff of wind became a solid thing I could feel and touch.
~ Stephen Fry
That night, though, Dick wakes up crying, but happy too, the bitter aftertaste of a happy ending in his mouth.
~ Stephen Graham Jones
But to his surprise, just before daylight, he found himself being aroused from a slumber he had not known he had achieved.
~ Stephen Harrigan
Be aware that the expectation of possible awakening sometimes leads to a false awakening in which you dream of waking.
~ Stephen LaBerge
lucid dreams occur "almost exclusively" during the early morning hours.
~ Stephen LaBerge
A period of wakefulness interrupting the normal course of sleep increases the likelihood of lucidity. In fact, the "morning nap" or "sleep interruption" technique, refined through several experiments conducted by the Lucidity Institute, is an extremely powerful method of stimulating lucid dreams. The technique simply requires you to wake from sleep one hour earlier than usual, stay awake for thirty to sixty minutes, then go back to sleep.
~ Stephen LaBerge
Escaping from a nightmare by awakening only suppresses your conscious awareness of the anxiety-provoking imagery.
~ Stephen LaBerge
Harnessing the unique sex energy that can only arise through sexual expression can awaken multidimensional awareness and provide you with your desired goal.
~ Stephen Richards
Change your life! Wake up and smell the Cosmic Ordering success.
~ Stephen Richards
Wake up and smell the wealth with Cosmic Ordering.
~ Stephen Richards
Pure potentiality is a phrase that denotes that pure consciousness is the true essence that lies in us.
~ Stephen Richards
You must be blind if you can't see The gaping hole called reality.
~ Stereo MC's
To a state of universal consciousness known as Da'at; a place of infinite light, energy, and perfection, where all ten dimensions are united as one. Physical beings who are giving, like your friend, are able to draw from its energy. Those who receive for themselves alone cannot access it. One who has awakened Da'at is able to perform the miraculous. Are you ready to perform the miraculous, Zachary?" "What miracle, Alien Joe? What are you asking me to do?
~ Steve Alten
Buddha is not someone you pray to, or try to get something from. Nor is a buddha someone you bow down to. A buddha is simply a person who is awake—nothing more or less.
~ Steve Hagen