Quotes About Awakening

Suffering just means you're having a bad dream. Happiness means you're having a good dream. Enlightenment means getting out of the dream altogether.

He had awoken too late for happiness, but not for strength, and could feel an austere joy, as of a warrior who is homeless but stands fully armed.

As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.

I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness.

A lot of people are waking up to human history, but so many people have been conditioned by the government controlled media to think that it's cool not to care.

The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.

We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.

History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.

History is that nightmare from which there is no awakening.

One must seek the shortest way and the fastest means to get back home-to turn the spark within into a blaze, to be merged in and to identify with that greater fire which ignited the spark.

Silence is an empty space, space is the home of the awakened mind.

When you die, you don't go to sleep. You go home to nonphysical reality, and you are very much awake.

As long as there is a 'you' doing or not-doing, thinking or not-thinking, 'meditating' or 'not-meditating' you are no closer to home than the day you were born.

Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings, of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home. He has found the treasure which was hidden in his own being.

Spring is come home with her world-wandering feet, And all things are made young with your desires.

I never heard the gospel of Jesus Christ. I had never attended church, was never raised in a religious home, never had any insight of God or who he was until I was 18 years old.

Every day that we wake up is a good day. Every breath that we take is filled with hope for a better day. Every word that we speak is a chance to change what is bad into something good.

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from?

I love the smell of coffee when I wake up in the morning. It gives me the awesome feeling of hope!

Most of the things that remain tied to earth do not know that they have hidden wings under the hard shell of life" - The Monk in the book "Songs of the Mist

I woke up!" he replied, eye twinkling in his haggard face, "and that's reason enough to be happy!

All our theories of improving the world, while we are still asleep, merely intensify the sleep of humanity.

Humanity is mind-controlled and only slightly more conscious than your average zombie.