Quotes About Awakening

No matter how cheerful and blameless the day's activities have been, when you wake in the middle of the night there is guilt in the air, a gnawing feeling of everything being slightly off, wrong — you in the wrong, and the world too, as if darkness is a kind of light that shows us the depth we are about to fall into.

as if in the pre-dawn, before light begins to lift edges into being.

Feel your body lying in bed. Straighten it out. Ask yourself, Am I awake now? Do I know that the gift of a new day is being given to me? Will I be awake for it? What will happen today? Right now I don't really know. Even as I think about what I have to do, can I be open to this not-knowing? Can I see today as an adventure? Can I see right now as filled with possibilities?

La méditation consiste à s'éveiller de cet état de rêve.

Le mot bouddha signifie celui ou celle qui s'est éveillé à sa propre nature.

In fact, the word "Buddha" simply means one who has awakened to his or her own true nature.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts…. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face?

Every day when I open my eyes it is a leap of vibrational faith into something new

You ask 'Are you a man or a demon?' Neither, I say. I have woken up, and the rest of you are sleeping, and that is the only difference between us.

Sometimes, when you sleep with the enemy, waking up is the hardest part." ~ Muse

Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.

I remember my father saying that you're about to awaken when you dream that you're dreaming.

What could thunderbirds want with us?" I wondered aloud [...] "We'll find out when Big Bird wakes up," Marc said. My father shook his head. "We'll find out now. Wake him up and make him sing.

I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear.

It's wonderful to know that after you have slept from sins, God still wakes you up every morning with forgiveness.

Wake up sweetheart. If you don't start living your life, the world is going to keep moving on without you.

People need change. It awakens something deep inside allowing them to grow. Without change something sleeps inside and seldom awakes.

I dreamed a thousand new paths... I woke and walked my old one.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake up and live!

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Work to connect yourself to the allness of life -- instead of identifying with the smallness of it -- and you'll awaken to a greatness already living within you that is no more bothered by the little things in life than a mountain is made miserable by the rain that falls upon it.

Don't make goals out of the spiritual path. A goal implies time, working toward something in the future. But the spiritual path is about discovering what you already are. You are the goal. Now come to understand what that means and live it.

I hate the part of the morning where I have to get out of bed and participate in real life.

É em geral com o nosso ser reduzido ao mínimo que nós vivemos, a maioria de nossas faculdades permanece adormecida, porque repousa no hábito, que sabe o que cumpre fazer e não necessita delas.