Quotes About Awakening

No hay lenguas muertas, sino cerebros aletargados.

There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.

Recuerdo que aquel alba de junio me desperté gritando. El corazón me batía en el pecho como si el alma quisiera abrirse camino y echar a correr escaleras abajo. Mi padre acudió azorado a mi habitación y me sostuvo en sus brazos, intentando calmarme. —No puedo acordarme de su cara. No puedo acordarme de la cara de mamá —murmuré sin aliento. Mi padre me abrazó con fuerza. —No te preocupes, Daniel. Yo me acordaré por los dos.

I live surrounded by men, and for a long time I've known that most of them are immune to logic. The only thing they learn about, and not all of them do, is the law of gravity. Until they fall flat on their faces, they don't wake up.

Non esistono lingue morte ma solo cervelli in letargo.

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for a human being. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

Nu exist? limbi moarte, ci numai creiere în letargie.

it's occurred to her that there are millions, billions, of other men and women in the world who wake up early in their separate beds, greedy for the substance of their own lives, but obliged every day to reinvent themselves.

Those who are in a spiritual crisis, however, have a feeling that something is trying to wake up inside them. They just don't know how to see it.

Again and again I have witnessed that healing is a matter of becoming conscious—not of the illness but of a life-force that the person has never before embraced.

allowing the Divine to awaken part of your spirit that contains the essence of what you are capable of contributing to others as well as to yourself.

Estaba harta de limitarse a existir; quería vivir. Pero ¿qué sentido tenía vivir cuando no se sentía viva?[...] Finalmente prefirió no despertar de sus sueños; éstos eran lo único que le parecía real

Steven awoke to his alarm ringing at seven a.m. Waking up, the first disappointment of every day, was as usual followed by its faithful friend, dread.

She couldn't believe how quickly life could change. How could she have known when she'd woken up that morning that today was the day she'd fall in love?

It was no joy waking up after a dream about that man. He left a taste of thunder in my mouth.

My eyes flew open, and I pushed back against rock-hard shoulders. I let out a little squeak of horror. It's me, said a familiar voice. ...Eric, what are you doing here? Snuggling.

At the moment of his awakening at the foot of the bodhi tree, the Buddha declared, How strange—all beings possess the capacity to be awakened, to understand, to love, and to be free, yet they don't know it and they allow themselves to be carried away on the ocean of suffering.

Dear friends, I have seen deeply that nothing can be by itself alone, that everything has to inter-be with everything else. I have seen that all beings are endowed with the nature of awakening.

The seed of Buddhahood, the capacity to wake up and understand things as they are, is also present in each of us.

Many practitioners are inclined to think that sitting in meditation is a means for obtaining Awakening, which would thus be an end. However, a line of demarcation between the end and the means cannot truly be established. When we turn from forgetfulness to awareness of being, this state is already true Awakening. This is why the Ts'ao-t'ung [Soto] sect has said, To sit in meditation is to be Buddha. When one truly sits in meditation, one finds oneself Awakened; and Awakening is Buddha himself.

Humans can be hateful, mean, and violent, but we also have the ability, with spiritual practice, to become compassionate and protective toward not only our own species but other species too—the ability to be awakened beings who can protect our planet and preserve her beauty. Awakening is our hope. And awakening is possible.

Buddhist teachings are meant to awaken our true self, not merely to add to our storehouse of knowledge.

To practice as monks is to train ourselves in mindfulness and awakening, to first free ourselves from suffering and then to help others do the same.

Listening To The Bell With body, speech and mind in perfect oneness, I send my heart along with the sound of this bell. May the hearers awaken from forgetfulness, And transcend the path of anxiety and sorrow.