Quotes About Awakening

Spring is beautiful, and smells sweet. Spring is when you shake the curtains, and pound on the rugs, and take off your long underwear, and wash in all the corners.

With regard to Karma-Yoga, the Gita says that it is doing work with cleverness and as a science; by knowing how to work, one can obtain the greatest results. You must remember that all work is simply to bring out the power of the mind which is already there, to wake up the soul. The power is inside every man, so is knowing; the different works are like blows to bring them out, to cause these giants to wake up. Man

Come on, Alan, you want me to believe you've been asleep for eight years? Nobody's that depressed.

Into flowers, into women, I have awakened. Too weak to think of strength, I have thought all day, Or dozed among standing friends. I lie in night, now, A small mound under linen like the drifted snow. from "The Operation

The work is to somehow talk ourselves beyond / the sleepiness of selfhood

all I did not know went on beginning around me I had thought it would come later but it had been waiting

Waking Hanging upward into the rushing summer Calling -- Everything is The answer Too fast --

We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living.

Wake-up! Think for yourself, be yourself and return to what is real.

The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.

We each need to make our lion's roar - to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears - to declare our right to awaken.

We need to wake up from a thought that lasts too long.

Meditating takes on a different quality when someone taps you on the shoulder and says, "Dad, why are you sleeping like that?"

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.

When I first saw the light of day on this planet, it seemed as if I had been rudely awakened from a death-like sleep.

It takes so many years to learn that one is dead.

Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.

There are only two conditions where you're allowed to wake up a woman on a lie-in: it's snowing or the death of a celebrity.

It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it.

To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: "We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken."

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

I'm simply amazed at how God worked in response to my prayers. I see a softening in my niece's husband, an agnostic. I see transformation in the members of my small group, and spiritual awakenings in my neighbors. I see growth in my own marriage.