Quotes About Awakening

Hark! hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings,And Phoebus 'gins arise,His steeds to water at those springsOn chalic'd flowers that lies;And winking Mary-buds beginTo ope their golden eyes:With everything that pretty is,My lady sweet, arise.

The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn.

The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.

The lark, the herald of the morn.

If we shadows have offended,Think but this, and all is mended,That you have but slumber'd hereWhile these visions did appear.

Truths that wake,To perish never.

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting...

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

But like most dreams, they end and you've got to wake up the next morning.

There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation.

Soon now, as the Negro awakens a little more and sees the vise that he's in, sees the bag that he's in, sees the real game that he's in, then the Negro's going to develop a new tactic.

bodhisattva, a Sanskrit term that in Buddhism refers to an enlightened being.

Our true purpose in life –' he paused '– is to awaken to our own energy,

Today. This bright new day that awaits us

Last night they had said and done all those things, and now they were like strangers in a bus queue. The mistake she had made was to fall asleep and break the spell.

You wake up and for those few seconds, minutes, you forget; forget you are injured; forget you are finished.

I am glad to see so many young people thinking about social justice. I have been woke since the doctor slapped my ass.

We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness. —THICH NHAT HANH

In the silence that follows a great line you can feel Lazarus deep inside even the laziest, most deathly afraid part of you, lift up his hands and walk toward the light.

THE BELL AND THE BLACKBIRD (excerpt) The sound of a bell still reverberating, or a blackbird calling from a corner of a field. Asking you to wake into this life or inviting you deeper to one that waits. Either way takes courage, either way wants you to be nothing but that self that is no self at all, wants you to walk to the place where you find you already know how to give every last thing away.

This is the breaking point in a human life, right here. This is waking up on an operating table to find aliens peering down at you, this is hearing the audible voice of God telling you the date the world will end. This is seeing a family of bigfoots in the forest and being without a camera. Welcome to freakdom, Dave. It'll be time to start a website soon.

I woke up in my bathroom, startled. I had nodded off while pooping. Long goddamned day.

We must be serious about church growth if we are concerned about the future of the Church of Jesus Christ. Church growth is not just another fad. Jesus came to build a Church, and that Church has been asleep until now. It is waking up! Any church that wakes up is going to grow.

To be educated is not so much to be taught as it is to be awakened to who you really are.