Quotes About Awakening

There is a way beyond this life and beyond death, the path of liberation. In order to be liberated, you have to enter into the world of advanced meditation.

Each time you meditate you have the possibility of completely changing your life in one meditation. If you meditate with your whole heart and your whole soul, you will become light itself.

What you have known of this life so far is only a dream, a slim dream at that. As one who has traveled greatly in the worlds, I can assure you there is much to see and much to become.

There is no greater romance in life than this adventure in realization.

It is a commitment to respect whatever life brings that we develop wholehearted determination to use discomfort as an opportunity for awakening, rather than trying to make it disappear.

Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.

Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

People are waking up in their homes - without conferences. They're waking up because life is waking them up, not because of some conference called "Body and Soul."

Die each moment so that you are renewed each moment.

The other world is hidden in this world. The Buddha is asleep in the Zorba. It has to be awakened. And nobody can awaken you except life itself.

I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.

You let the energy go wherever it wants. I have such a rich spiritual life. Most people take drugs to experience that.

All the dangers in our world are like a blessed wake up call. They tell us to live life NOW... not tomorrow, not when the children grow up, not when we retire... but NOW.

There is nothing like waking up at six in the morning and changing a baby's nappy to bring you face to face with life's reality.

Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life

He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis)

I feel like I'm finally whole. I'm five thousand years old," he rasped. "But the day you found me in the woods, that's when my life started.

I don't want to wake up and not truly be enjoying my life and these amazing things around me.

If you fully awaken, you will not know yourself. Understand this, and you will understand all.

Everything that occurs in your life is an opportunity for awakening. There are no exceptions!

I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world, which, beautiful though it may be, is still a land of captivity.

Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life.

One meets and wakes you to vivid life in an immortal hour. Thousands could not do it through eternity.

Nothing you can do can prevent your death. Nothing you can do can prevent your rebirth. To step beyond life and death is self-discovery.