Quotes About Awakening

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.

There is a giant asleep within every man. When that giant awakes, miracles happen.

Because karmic traces are the roots of dreams, when they are entirely exhausted only the pure light of awareness remains: no movie, no story, no dreamer and no dream, only the luminous fundamental nature that is absolute reality. This is why enlightenment is the end of dreams and is known as "awakening.

Ah well, a morning with weak coffee is still beaucoup better than a morning with no coffee.

I like my coffee black and my mornings bright.

I orchestrate my mornings to the tune of coffee.

Coffee is the best thing to douse the sunrise with.

The project of integrating human knowledge includes a great body of work that inspects the evolution of the states and structures of interior consciousness, sometimes correlating them with the evolution of exterior physical structures. This work validates the potential for—and, indeed, supports the importance of—awakening into higher states and stages of consciousness.

I'd lived all along as if I was acting out some turbulent drama; then I woke up one day and found I'd stopped believing in the play

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.

Enid thought everybody was like her, they just didn't know it yet. And that someday they would come around, realizing what fools they'd always been by clinging to ideals that got them nowhere. Enid

May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.

We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.

But to me it sounds like a man waking from a paralysis to discover, in rapid succession, that he can walk, that he can run, that he can run fast.

Greater sins do sooner startle the soul, and awaken and rouse up the soul to repentance, than lesser sins do. Little sins often slide into the soul, and breed, and work secretly and undiscernably in the soul, till they come to be so strong, as to trample upon the soul, and to cut the throat of the soul.

An Oriental smile is not an affair of a swift moment. It has a birth and a beginning. It awakes--hesitates--grows, and at last from the sad chrysalis emerges the butterfly.

Again and again Someone in the crowd wakes up. He has no ground in the crowd And he emerges according to much broader laws. He carries strange customs with him and demands room for bold gestures. The future speaks ruthlessly through him. —Rainer Maria Rilke (Über Kunst, 1899)

Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise

I got into Nirvana, and it was my sort of awakening into the idea that music could be like rough and crazy and local. And so I started to realize that there were bands playing in my town, Anacortes.

En estas últimas y tiernas horas, el amor es sensible y puro Ven, luz de la mañana, con tu luminoso poder a despertar a mi amor eterno.

He still wasn't sure exactly when it happened...It wasn't as if a light suddenly blinked on; it was more like a sunrise, where the sky grows lighter and lighter almost imperceptibly before you realized it was morning. page 147

Try to live as though it were morning

the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls