Quotes About Awakening

My hope for America and the activists is that they never, ever go back to sleep, and they keep fighting for social justice, equality, and decency.

We must die to become true human beings.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?

Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.

Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening.

Enlightenment is any experience of expanding our consciousness beyond its present limits.

the more naps you take, the more awakenings you experience.

Satori is a brief flash. Suddenly the light breaks through. For a short timeless time we experience eternity in its unmanifest form. It's comparable to salvikalpa samadhi.

In the process of deeply accepting our own inner experience, instead of being identified with a story of a limited self, we realize the compassion and wakefulness that is our essence.

The world was simply and sheerly divided into 'the aware', those who had the experience of being vessels of the divine, and a great mass of 'the unaware', 'the unmusical', 'the unattuned.

You take the senses away, and there is no consciousness. Consciousness comes from experience.

The actual experience of awakening can only be in the present moment.

I shall now proceed to my own experience, which hath truly convinced me, the Lord is awakened as one out of sleep; and the voice of the Lord will shake terribly the earth.

Through the experience of art, the powers of perception and transformation can be awakened, in both those who create it and those who re-perceive it.

Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.

You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.

Faith is not a means to something further. It is not something we do in order to get to heaven. Faith is its own end. To have faith is already to have come alive.

Once you have awakened to the question of faith, you cannot simply return to your everyday agenda like a committed atheist could. You cannot retreat to the comforts of atheism.

Waking up to see another day is a blessing. Don't take it for granted. Make it count and be happy that you're alive.

Yeah I was in the dark and I was falling hard with an open heart, I'm wide awake. Yeah I was dreaming for so long. I wish I knew then what I know now. I wouldn't dive in I wouldn't bow down. Gravity hurts you made it so sweet till I woke up on, on a concrete.

There's being positive and the there's living in a fu..ing dream world, please wake up and smell the coffee!