Quotes About Awakening

Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we're living, which is so excellent once one gets one's mind and desires out of its way and lets it act of it's own accord.

It rained throughout that night, breaking the shell

Y Hood solo se despertaba del todo cuando había que avivar el fuego. Porque toda madera teme la llama.

The Church is a microcosm here in the earth of what humanity and the entire cosmos is really called to be - and we treat those who don't know the Truth according to their true identity as much as possible. Those who are not yet awakened to the fact that they are clean and forgiven before they even know to ask.

And yet, though we wake, though there is no end to waking and saying Oh I see, not ever [...], still within the dream in which we find ourselves every other dream is nested, every one we have awakened from.

Like someone coming to consciousness with the cessation of pain, she gathered around herself the world, the dawn, and her future.

Do not intend to make a buddha.…

transcendence of both unenlightenment

Focus your entire energy very quietly, very softly, on awakening and realization.

Awakening is remembering to enjoy. The more delicate the enjoyment, the greater the awakening.

Your life belongs to what you have awakened to.

In Yosemite, we see how everyone can inherit the earth. But that gift requires a change of heart, a new intention, a deliberate turning. From now on, we must go forward, back into the world of violence and war, to do our part to end the killing, the suffering, and the ongoing destruction of Mother Earth. Yosemite, along with all of creation, calls us to wake up, stand up, and stop the insane destruction of the earth before it's too late.

Alan Campbell opened one eye. From somewhere in remote distances, muffled beyond sight or sound, his soul crawled back painfully, through subterranean corridors, up into his body again. Toward the last it moved to a cacophony of hammers and lights. Then he was awake. The first eye was bad enough. But, when he opened his second eye, such as rush of anguish flowed through his brain that he hastily closed them again.

I wonder by my troth, what thou, and IDid, till we lov'd? were we not wean'd till thenBut suck'd on country pleasures, childishly?Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den?

BUSY old fool, unruly Sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains, call on us?

One short sleep past, we wake eternally, and death shall be no more, death thou shalt die.

A person fully awakened to the jewel-like dignity of their own life is capable of truly respecting that same treasure in others.

What does remembering ourselves mean? It essentially means coming back to life- re-membering.

The meaning of life cannot be told; it has to HAPPEN to a person.

Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life.

We are simply committing ourselves to paying attention to our life. We use meditation to help us in that attention process. We are not trying to become good meditators. We are trying to wake up.

If youre not living awake to the fact the life can change in a dime, then youre living asleep.

As far as my own dreams, I'm not a big dreamer, I think obviously we suppress things in life, emotions and thoughts, and we should wake up and look at that.

Magic is what happens when you have encountered the Divine. It is the life-altering experiences of connecting to the divinity that dwells within yourself and in the world.