Quotes About Awakening

Play touches and stimulates vitality, awakening the whole person - mind, body, intelligence and creativity.

If everything appears meaningless then congratulations to you! You have started on the path. This is the first sign of intelligence, of waking up.

Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.

I look for the John Proctor who took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart!

Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.

One who does not rouse themself when it is time to rise, who, though capable, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle person will never find their way to true knowledge.

ajenos a que un día descubrimos que la vida era algo más que todo eso que hacemos por costumbre.

Me despierto poco antes de que amanezca. Es la mejor hora del día. Las cosas se ven de color de rosa y todos tenemos derecho a esperar que nuestros sueños se convertirán por fin en realidad.

The Buddha's dharma didn't teach peace and relaxation; it taught awakening—often rude awakening.

The garden was still asleep. I caught it unawares. A garden that hasn't yet begun to think about people. Beautiful.

I feel that there is an angel inside me whom I am constantly shocking.

Salvation is represented here as the response to a Call coming from below, like an awakening out of deep sleep...

I like to wake up each morning feeling a new man.

God break me out of this stiff life I've made

I don't know why I am in such a reminiscent mood except that spring and the reappearance of toads always awakens the old acquisitive instinct. The only thing that keeps me from starting a collection is the fact that no rule exists against it.

What matters in learning is not to be taught, but to wake up.

The caffeine hits her bloodstream like a dream of another life.

La cafeína le llega al torrente sanguíneo como un sueño de otra vida.

You have to wake up a virgin each morning.

La pensée est le réveil du sens.

They lifted their faces to the astonishing warmth. The sky arched over them, a pale, clear blue. Lina felt as though a lid that had been on her all her life had been lifted off. Light and air rushed though her, making a song, like the songs of Ember, only it was a song of joy. She looked at Doon and saw that he was smiling and crying at the same time, and she realized that she was, too.

Once again, we are reminded that awakening, or enlightenment is not the property of Buddhism, any more than Truth is the property of Christianity. Neither the Buddha nor the Christ belongs exclusively to the communities that were founded in their names. They belong to all people of goodwill, all who are attentive to the secret which lives in the depths of their breath and their consciousness. (14)

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