Quotes About Awakening

My regimen is I wake up, usually around 8:30, brush my teeth, and splash water on my face.

slept too long. And I don't much like the world I woke up to.

You don't grow up gradually. You grow up in short bursts at pivotal moments, by suddenly realizing how ignorant and immature you are.

You have carried a branch of tomorrow into the room-its frangrance awakened me.

It's going to be a long row to hoe to bring the white South to any sense of shame, or to make them wake up to the brute fact that the golden age they hark back to and are fighting tooth and nail to perpetuate was a slave-holding, slave-breeding, slave-driving, slave-hunting hell on earth. The crime of the white South is centered in their racist unity of loyalty which blinds them to the real state of their society and its discontents

How life goes in bad directions when your heart is asleep.

Sometimes it takes a little jolt to make us appreciate what we've got.

Get up, sweet Slug-a-bed, and seeThe dew bespangling herb and tree.

I lay down and slept; I awoke, for the LORD sustained me. – Psalm 3:5

Evangelist Vance Havner once quipped, "When I was a boy, preachers used to talk about 'holding a revival.' What we really need is somebody who will turn a revival loose.

We sleep in language if language does not come to wake us up with its strangeness.

But if I go to sleep for eight hours, there will be a thousand years of cheela development before I wake up. That is like sleeping through the rise and fall of the Roman Empire!" "Set your alarm for six hours," she replied, pushing him down the passageway, "That will give you enough sleep to keep you going and maybe you will be awake again before they develop spaceflight.

It can be said that life's perhaps most fundamental dynamic is the attempt to move from a lower form of experience and consciousness to a higher (or deeper) level of consciousness.

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

Then morning comes, saying, "This was a night.

Whatever else it might be, the divine is certainly the thing that imposes with maximum intensity the sensation of being alive.

Wake up! Be yourself, not a bad copy of something else!

Yesterday you told me that life is a growth school, Father Mike. Every person and every experience comes to us to teach us the lesson we most need to learn at that particular point of our journey. We can either awaken to this act of nature, or we can turn a blind eye to it and, in doing so, keep repeating the mistakes of the past until the pain becomes so great that we have no choice but to change.

I thought that, ultimately, life is all about choices. One's destiny unfolds according to the choices one makes, and I felt certain that the choice I had made was the right one. I knew my life would never be the same and that something marvellous, maybe even miraculous, was about to happen to me. It was an amazing awakening.

It is the first step to lifelong enlightenment.

Sixth Ritual for Radiant Living: the Ritual of Early Awakening.

Do not betray the powers that sleep within you by staying too late in a soft bed that keeps you sedated.

Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action. Orison Sweet Marden

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all of your thoughts break their bonds, your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction and you find yourself in a new great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.