Quotes About Awakening

It had felt as if I were truly awake for the first time, true knowledge running like ice in my blood. The memory exhilirated me for a moment, then left me with a broken cord of loss.

It was as if he had been born a second time; no, not a second time, the first time, for until now he had merely existed like an animal with a most nebulous self-awareness.

When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.

What is the soul? What color is it? I suspected my soul, being mischievous, might slip away while I was dreaming and fail to return. I did my best not to fall asleep, to keep it inside of me where it belonged.

The trouble with dreaming is that we eventually wake up.

I clawed through a thick web of the culture's consciousness that I hadn't known existed.

I awoke with a mild hangover.

If everyone keeps asking you the same questions, maybe you have to come up with new answers just to stay awake.

He awoke, opened his eye. The room meant very little to him; he was too deeply immersed in the non-being from which he had just come. If he had not the energy to ascertain his position in time and space, he also lacked the desire. ... In utter comfort, utter relaxation he lay absolutely still for a while, and then sank back into on the the light momentary sleeps that occur after a long, profound one.

Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then for what it is and live each moment anew.

The world suddenly vanished from view like a morning mist. I was left alone with Reality.

we are now as divine as we ever shall be—but we must wake up from illusion and see this truth.

When the mind enters into this imageless and thoughtless state, there is nothing in it to resist the union with divine consciousness.

He who does not rouse himself when it is time to rise; who, though young and strong, is full of sloth; whose will and thoughts are weak; that lazy and idle man will never find the way to enlightenment.

Salvation understood as a revelation of our being in Christ or of our Buddha-nature is not just a wonderful revealing of what we are; it can also be a jolting kick in the pants, a transforming corrective to what we thought we were.

For Buddhists, to experience Awakening is to experience the interconnectedness that makes us all one. For Christians, to experience the Divine as Love is to experience the source that makes us all "children of God" and therefore brothers and sisters to one another.

But if salvation is a matter of revealing or embodying the deepest and already existing truth about ourselves and the world – in Christian vocabulary, that we are already children of the Divine called to wake up to and live our oneness with the Spirit – then it is indeed possible that there be other teachers and revealers who have seen and taught other aspects of the Mystery of who we are.

Dawn An angel, robed in spotless white, Bent down and kissed the sleeping Night. Night woke to blush; the sprite was gone. Men saw the blush and called it Dawn.

There is a psychospiritual disease of the soul that originates within ourselves and that has the potential to destroy our species or to wake us up, depending on whether or not we recognize what it is revealing to us.

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La meilleure façon de réaliser ses rêves est de se réveiller.

The best way to make your own dreams come true is to wake up

La meilleure façon de réaliser ses rêves est de se réveiller. The best way of making your dreams come true, is to wake up.

It could be that you have the wrong hands, or the wrong face. It is not your imagination. You do. You have. It is emerging as the condition of our age. Every day there are new ways of being wrong. Explosions are common, but that is not it. We are waking up to it. We are opening our wrong eyes.