Quotes About Awakening

Every faculty that naturally belongs to the human mind is latent in every mind, and it can be awakened and developed, provided the proper laws are faithfully applied.

Se siente como un payaso de circo que se despierta una mañana y ya no quiere colocarse la nariz de goma roja.

It was during this period that she would wake in the night and get out of bed to go to her parents' room, only to realize, standing in the hall, that she had no parents.

My own awakening feels as momentous. I too am blanketed, my harsh edges obscured and transformed.

Rumi, the great Sufi poet, wrote: Today like every other day we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

Spring is when life's alive in everything.

I weep as I have never wept: Oh it was summer when I slept, It's winter now I waken.

There is no time like Spring, When life's alive in everything

The daylight, he remembered, was a sort of medicine. Truly nothing was as acute or upsetting in the first light of day.

I fell asleep reading a dull book, and I dreamed that I was reading on, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

Waking up to the suffering of people who are different from us is a long process, and has a whole lot to do with what community we belong to and whose consciousness and life experiences impact our own on a daily basis. I have a hunch I'm going to be waking up till the moment I die.

To the struggling-self, it is a prison; to the awakening-Self, it is classroom

el dolor es una ilusión; el júbilo es real. 4 El dolor es dormir; el júbilo, despertar. 5 El dolor es un engaño, y sólo el júbilo es verdad.

El objetivo del Espíritu Santo es ayudarnos a escapar del mundo de los sueños, enseñándonos cómo cambiar nuestra manera de pensar y cómo corregir nuestros errores.

7. El aprendizaje que verdaderamente corrige comienza siempre con el despertar del espíritu y con el rechazo de la fe en la visión física.

This was soul calling to soul. A tired, trapped lock at last meeting the key that unlocks it.

I went to sleep in Chaos, and then I awoke like the first man.

Extending his hands from his bed, Plume was astonished not to feel the wall: "Well," he concluded, "the ants must have eaten it away." And he went back to sleep. Shortly thereafter, his wife shook him awake: "Take a good look, lazybones! While you were so busy sleeping, someone went and stole our house!" And indeed, stretching out on every side there was nothing but solid sky. "So it goes," he thought.

The tragic solemnity of existence strikes us with terrible force on that morning when we wake to find the mournful words "too late" ringing in our ears.

And see! she stirs!She starts—she moves—she seems to feelThe thrill of life along her keel.

PETRONIUS woke only about midday, and as usual greatly wearied.

There was no deceiving himself: something terrible, new, and more important than anything before in his life, was taking place within him of which he alone was aware.

All this was clear to me, and I was glad and at peace. Then it is as if someone is saying to me, "See that you remember." And I awoke.

One can only live while one is intoxicated with life; as soon as one is sober it is impossible not to see that it is all a mere fraud and a stupid fraud! That is precisely what it is: there is nothing either amusing or witty about it, it is simply cruel and stupid.