Quotes About Awakening

Kelimenin kökü olan 'bud' uyanmak, bilmek, anlamak anlam?na gelir; ve uyan?p anlayan kiÅŸiye Buda denir. Bu kadar basittir. Uyanma, anlama ve sevme kapasitesine Buda doÄŸas? denir. Budistler Buda'ya s???n?yorum dedikleri zaman anlama ve fark?nda olma kapasitelerine güvendiklerini ifade ederler.

Buddha nature is the ability to understand and touch our real nature.

Tess was awake before dawn — at the marginal minute of the dark when the grove is still mute, save for one prophetic bird who sings with a clear-voiced conviction that he at least knows the correct time of day, the rest preserving silence as if equally convinced that he is mistaken.

Stupors, however, do not last forever

and when he awoke it was as if he had awakened in hell. It WAS hell—the hell of conscious failure

Occasionally, on purpose, Dr. Lecter drops a teacup to shatter on the floor. He is satisfied when it does not gather itself together. For many months now, he has not seen Mischa in his dreams. Someday perhaps a cup will come together. Or somewhere Starling may hear a crossbow string and come to some unwilled awakening, if indeed she even sleeps.

I woke up and heard the lambs screaming. I woke up in the dark and the lambs were screaming.

Music awakens time, awakens us to our finest enjoyment of time.

To enter into the realm of contemplation, one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance into a higher life. It is a death for the sake of life, which leaves behind all that we can know or treasure as life, as thought, as experience as joy, as being. [Every form of intuition and experience] die to be born again on a higher level of life.

The ever-changing reality in the midst of which we live should awaken us to the possibility of an uninterrupted dialogue with God. By this I do not mean continuous "talk," or a frivolously conversational form of affective prayer which is sometimes cultivated in convents, but a dialogue of love and of choice. A dialogue of deep wills.

IT is not we who choose to awaken ourselves, but God Who chooses to awaken us.

Stagnation and inactivity bring spiritual death.

There is no greater disaster in the spiritual life than to be immersed in unreality

Contemplation does not arrive at reality after a process of deduction, but by an intuitive awakening in which our free and personal reality becomes fully alive to its own existential depths, which open out into the mystery of God. For

We must learn to realize that the love of God seeks us in every situation, and seeks our good. His inscrutable love seeks our awakening. True, since this awakening implies a kind of death to our exterior self, we will dread His coming in proportion as we are identified with this exterior self and attached to it.

It is as if in creating us God asked a question, and in awakening us to contemplation He answered the question, so that the contemplative is at the same time, question and answer.

We are not capable of union with one another on the deepest level until the inner self in each one of us is sufficiently awakened to confront the inmost spirit of the other.

Contemplation, on the contrary, is the experiential grasp of reality as subjective, not so much "mine" (which would signify "belonging to the external self") but "myself" in existential mystery. Contemplation does not arrive at reality after a process of deduction, but by an intuitive awakening in which our free and personal reality becomes fully alive to its own existential depths, which open out into the mystery of God.

This implies that all truly serious and spiritual forms of religion aspire at least implicitly to a contemplative awakening both of the individual and of the group.

If it is awakened, it communicates a new life to the intelligence in which it lives, so that it becomes a living awareness of itself: and this awareness is not so much something that we ourselves have, as something that we are. It is a new and indefinable quality of our living being.

Gratitude therefore takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening

suffering the inner struggle and the crisis through which one generally comes to a deeper spiritual awakening.

The sharpest of natural experiences is like sleep, compared with the awakening which is contemplation. The keenest and surest natural certitude is a dream compared to this serene comprehension.

But in the actual experience of contemplation all other experiences are momentarily lost. They "die" to be born again on a higher level of life.