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Quotes About Awakening

Los sueños son eso de lo que uno se despierta.
~ Raymond Carver
So is he gonna wake up from that nap yet or what?
~ Raymond Chandler
You don't have to subscribe to a political ideology, move to a commune, or join the guerrillas in the mountains; you wake up in a society suddenly transformed, and chances are good you will be part of that transformation in what you do, in whom you connect to, in how you feel. Something changes.
~ Rebecca Solnit
To awaken to this teaching is to have 'no-idea,' 'no-memory,' and 'no-attachment.' Not giving rise to delusions, this is the nature of suchness.33 View all dharmas with wisdom. Neither grasp them nor reject them. This is the way to see your nature and become a buddha.
~ Red Pine
Let those who want to dance, dance. Let those who can awaken, awake.
~ René Barjavel
Sous cette brume empoisonnée par leurs fatigues d'hier, des millions d'hommes s'éveillent, déjà exténués d'aujourd'hui.
~ René Barjavel
Vida was sound asleep when I went back to my room. I turned on the light and it woke her up. She was blinking and her face had that soft marble quality to it that beautiful women have when they are suddenly awakened and are not quite ready for it yet. What's happening? she said. It's another book, she replied, answering her own question. Yes, I said. What's it about? she said automatically like a gentle human phonograph. It's about growing flowers in hotel rooms.
~ Richard Brautigan
True happiness comes not when we get rid of all out problems, but when we change our relationship to them, when we see our problems as a potential source of awakening, opportunities to practice, and to learn.
~ Richard Carlson
consciousness-raising.
~ Richard Dawkins
Nature is the expression of the Logos, as are human beings, and our task is to wake up and participate consciously.
~ Richard Geldard
While the roles we play in life—parent, child, friend, author, coach, teacher, you name it—are important, they are not our life's purpose. Purpose is not a role or a goal; it is an aim and a mindset. To awaken, to grow, to continually give, and to make a difference to others—that's why we are here. It's who we bring to what we do.
~ Richard J. Leider
The success of Morning Pages hinges on our doing them as close to awakening as we can.
~ Julia Cameron
Eric had to make me wake up for long enough to take out my contacts.
~ Julie Powell
Wake the sleeper must, and confront his fears, or risk being lost in the dark places of the mind forever.
~ Juliet Marillier
Who would awaken the past? It shines like a sunrise And cuts like a fine blade.
~ Juliet Marillier
With the rising of the sun we stirred, and woke, and readied ourselves to face the new day.
~ Juliet Marillier
Nothing more exhilarating ... than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.
~ Junot Diaz
A dream only becomes one when you wake up.
~ Justin Chin
the real world was only a dream, only an echo, and in silent moments throughtout the day it would hit me: i am not at home here.
~ Kailin Gow
Time to wake up." Rick muted the TV when a commercial came on. He slipped on his reading glasses and asked, "What is the groundnut better known as?" Lydia carefully rolled onto her back so the cat wouldn't be disturbed. "The peanut.
~ Karin Slaughter
Silence is the space where man wakes up.
~ Rajneesh
There is none dwelling in the house but God. When a man is awakened he melts and perishes.
~ Rumi
A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.
~ Sir Fulke Greville
Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.
~ Wendell Phillips