Awakening Quotes

And then, some morning in the second week, the mind wakes, comes to life again. Not in a city sense—no—but beach-wise. It begins to drift, to play, to turn over in gentle careless rolls like those lazy waves on the beach. One never knows what chance treasures these easy unconscious rollers may toss up, on the smooth white sand of the conscious mind; what perfectly rounded stone, what rare shell from the ocean floor. Perhaps a channeled whelk, a moon shell, or even an argonaut.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

What we can imagine we can make real

Nadine May

I walked across a bridge that doesn't exist. And after that, being scared just didn't seem so important anymore.

Erica Bauermeister

Outside the study hall the next fall, the fall of our senior year, the Nabisco plant baked sweet white bread twice a week. If I sharpened a pencil at the back of the room I could smell the baking bread and the cedar shavings from the pencil.... Pretty soon all twenty of us - our class - would be leaving. A core of my classmates had been together since kindergarten. I'd been there eight years. We twenty knew by bored heart the very weave of each other's socks....The poems I loved were in French, or translated from the Chinese, Portuguese, Arabic, Sanskrit, Greek. I murmured their heartbreaking sylllables. I knew almost nothing of the diverse and energetic city I lived in. The poems whispered in my ear the password phrase, and I memorized it behind enemy lines: There is a world. There is another world. I knew already that I would go to Hollins College in Virginia; our headmistress sent all her problems there, to her alma mater. "For the English department," she told me.... But, "To smooth off her rough edges," she had told my parents. They repeated the phrase to me, vividly. I had hopes for my rough edges. I wanted to use them as a can opener, to cut myself a hole in the world's surface, and exit through it. Would I be ground, instead, to a nub? Would they send me home, an ornament to my breed, in a jewelry bag?

Annie Dillard

I am bewildering you a little. Just enough to help you forget what you came to believe, so that you can remember what you’ve always known.

Martha Beck

It was during that journey to Via Orazio that I began to be made unhappy by my own alienness. I had grown up with those boys, I considered their behavior normal, their violent language was mine. But for six years now I had also been following daily a path that they were completely ignorant of and in the end I had confronted it brilliantly. With them I couldn’t use any of what I learned every day, I had to suppress myself, in some way diminish myself. What I was in school I was there obliged to put aside or use treacherously, to intimidate them. I asked myself what I was doing in that car. They were my friends, of course, my boyfriend was there, we were going to Lila’s wedding celebration. But that very celebration confirmed that Lila, the only person I still felt was essential even though our lives had diverged, no longer belonged to us and, without her, every intermediary between me and those youths, that car racing through the streets, was gone. Why then wasn’t I with Alfonso, with whom I shared both origin and flight? Why, above all, hadn’t I stopped to say to Nino, Stay, come to the reception, tell me when the magazine with my article’s coming out, let’s talk, let’s dig ourselves a cave that can protect us from Pasquale’s driving, from his vulgarity, from the violent tones of Carmela and Enzo, and also—yes, also—of Antonio?

Elena Ferrante

There's something very lazy about the way you have loved him blindly for so long without ever criticizing him. You've never even accepted that the man was ugly.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Awakening as a moment of now Awakening as an experienceAwakening as a momentthat is the same - today, yesterday or tomorrowAwakening of a Hinduist, of a Buddhist, of a Christianof a believer or a nonbeliever Awakening that lives within every single cellAwakening within no qualitiesas emptiness of Consciousnessas direct contactwith love and light and lifeexperiencedwith every breathAwakening as resting within true natureas acting from the true natureas RememberingAwakening as openingto the possibility of Now

Nataša Nuit Pantović

Love and wisdom are guides towards awakening.

Belsebuub

How would it feel if for an instance we stop being someone’s son/daughter, someone’s father/mother, someone’s husband/wife, someone’s lover, somebody’s employee, a countryman of some nation, a faithful devotee of some religion or a follower of some ideal and live only being a part of this wonderful, incredible and mysterious creation, wouldn't it would be something worth living for?

Bikrant

The Illusion - The source of suffering can be linked back to a condition of the mind that creates the illusion of separation--the state in which we see ourselves as disconnected and separate from the world and our experiences.

L.M.Blanchard

There is nothing left to seek for in this world when it can be exchanged for another one. No thought of gain or loss, winning or losing, success or failure ever had any meaning. Fantasy is not real and dreaming is not Being One. You are ready to Awaken to Oneness. And as you awaken the whole world awakens as well. For the world was never more than a misperception. As perception becomes whole, the single mind sees only wholeness. At last you are ready to see with Inner Vision, and you realize that physical sight was nothing but the illusion of being in the dark. The Light has come and it is time to rejoice! It is time!

David Hoffmeister

That absolute, ultimate reality is always there within us (as it is everywhere else, as well). whether we are aware of it or not, it is there, like the sun shining behind the clouds, invisible because of the clouds, but undeniably there. The sun of our inner nature, the LifeParticle Sun, is always shining, whether we see it or not. And because it is already there, we don't need to create or achieve it. We just have to acknowledge it.

Ilchi Lee

Today is a gift.Today is all I have.I will be fully awake in today.

Lailah Gifty Akita

What is awakening? Awakening is the cessation of self-deception! Religion is self-deception; fate is self-deception; the idea that there is no death but only continuation is a self-deception! Real awakening is to acquire a scientific mind, it is to meet face to face with the bare realities, and it is to leave the spiritual fallacies and fantasies! And this is real awakening!

Mehmet Murat ildan

What you see as not neededWill return until you see that it needs to be.What you accept as neededNeeds not to remain unless you enjoy it to be.

Raphael Zernoff

We" (your spirit guides and angels) believe in what-we-feel, you believe in how-you-feel.

Linda Deir

This surprised me because it made me realize that what I sought was not outside myself. It was within me, already there, waiting. Awakening was really the act of remembering myself, remembering this deep Feminine Source.

Sue Monk Kidd

The Invisible World reveals to us this Truth within its silence.

Jacqueline Ripstein

The biggest awakening is the awakening from the childish deceptions and the invented tales of the religion.

Mehmet Murat ildan

The aim of my teaching is enlightenment, awakening from the dream state of separateness into the reality of the One. In short, my teaching is focused on realizing what you are.

Adyashanti

It is so easy to have our eyes opened, but then close them again, pretend it never happened, and go back to doing what has always been done.

Jason M. Steffens

Let the world kiss you, sister. Let the moment kiss the most raw and tender spot in your heart until you cannot help but surrender, open.

Chameli Ardagh

I entered the water as naked as when my mother bore me. When I first touched the cold water I felt a shudder go through me, then the shudder was transformed into a sensation of wakefulness.

Tayeb Salih

In one moment, we are now forever,in one moment...

Paul Goldman

So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste.

Gregory Maguire

For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state,

Joseph Campbell

She attended the French performance, but the play's content now had a connection to her life. She read a book and the book invariably had lines with sparks from her mind, the fire of her emotions flickered here and there, and words spoken the night before were written down, as if the author had overheard how her heart beat.The forest held the same trees, but their sound had taken on special meaning; she had established a vibrant consonance with them. The birds did not simply twitter and chirp but were saying something to each other. Everything around her spoke and responded to her mood; a flower would blossom and she seemed to hear its breathing.pp. 256-257

Ivan Goncharov

Awakening will be sudden and shocking. You and I must be there for her awakening. We won`t be there for (her?) later on. That`s for other hands to do.

L.J. Smith

I wonder if any night on earth will be like this one. It is like a night in a dream. The people about me are like some uncanny, half-human beings. There must be spirits abroad tonight.

Kate Chopin

When Jill woke next morning and found herself in a cave, she thought for one horrid moment that she was back in the Underworld.

C.S. Lewis

The second adventure involves the divine spark hidden in each soul and the dark times require that the inner light of soul be found again. Perhaps there is no greater time to awaken to the adventure the soul would have us live and become agents of the divine in this world.

Michael Meade

Acceptance is not passivity. It is a courageous step in the process of transformation.

Jack Kornfield

Every AWAKENING starts with a WORD. Speak positive things into your life.

Oscar Bimpong

To live a life without awakening is to leave it as it was begun.

Belsebuub

Seed mantras are the seeding suggestions to awaken the deep collective unconscious.

Amit Ray

Be confident. Be successful. Bebeautiful. Be intelligent. Be hard working. Be carefree. Be modest.Be driven. Be forgiving. Be creative. Be relaxed. Be motivated. Beeducated. Be thoughtful. Be kind. Be determined. Be good. Just beyou!

Russell Strand

Third-eye is a gift from life. It’s the gift you receive when you travel the long path of both your external and internal reality towards the self.

Roshan Sharma

To explain God after merely reading the scriptures is like explaining the city of New York after seeing it only in a map.

Abhijit Naskar

Divinity is not a fashion. It is the way of life. It is the need of yourbeing, you have to become that.

Dr Wayne Dyer

Don't be afraid to excuse yourself. Recharge for as long as you need. Lean up against a tree and take a break from the other bears. I'll be there too, but I promise not to bother you.

Amy Schumer

I have never been as alive or awake as I have been through Jiu Jitsu.

Chris Matakas

He still smelled of limes. It made saliva come into her mouth. It made her feel that before she had been sleepy, and now she was awake.

Monica Ali

English is not the language every person speaks, every country has different language, don't change your cultures letting western language or cultures affect it trust me you have many reasons to be proud of your country and the cultures.

Unique Sapkota

My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.

Adyashanti

Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying ‘And then I shall have wings and antennae,’ there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation. When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had.

Elizabeth Berg

I told myself all sorts of lies, standing there at the bar, but I could not move. And this was partly because I knew that it did not really matter anymore; it did not even matter if I never spoke to Giovanni again; for they had become visible, as visible as the wafers on the shirt of the flaming princess, they stormed all over me, my awakening, my insistent possibilities.

James Baldwin

Bells Ring, Drums ResoundWhen a bell is struck it rings, when a drum is beaten it resounds. This is because they are solid outside and empty within. It is because they have nothing inside that they are able to ring and resound.What I realize as I observe this is the Tao of true emptiness and ineffable existence.True emptiness is like the inner openness of a bell or a drum; ineffable existence is like the sounding of a bell or a drum when struck. If people can keep this true emptiness as their essence, and utilize this ineffable existence as their function, ever serene yet ever responsive, ever responsive yet ever serene, tranquil and unstirring yet sensitive and effective, sensitive and effective yet tranquil and unstirring, empty yet not empty, not empty yet empty, aware and efficient, lively and active, refining everything in the great furnace of Creation, then when the dirt is gone the mirror is clear, when the clouds disperse the moon appears; revealing the indestructible body of reality, they transcend yin and yang and Creation, and merge with the eternity of space.

Liu Yiming

To awaken to the living dream within one’s life and remain awake in a world trying to lull everyone to sleep involves repeated struggle, yet also presents something truly worth fighting for.

Michael Meade

I love you." she whispered into the rough wool of his sweater.

L.J. Smith

No one and nothing outside of you can give you salvation, or free you from the misery. You have to light your own lamp. You have to know the miniature universe that you yourself are.

Banani Ray

All religions are born from individual experiences of divine awakening, not from some books.

Abhijit Naskar

Sometimes, it becomes necessary for you to hit the bottom, and hit really hard that it awakens you.

Frederick Espiritu

Many people die long before their departure date, Through ignorance of living a life they never wanted to be apart of but are to scared to change.

Nikki Rowe

Upon awakening you may find no need to speak nothing to sayand no one to convince.Your very presence will spread happiness wisdom and truthto all you may encounter...along the Way.

Leland Lewis

The real you suffocates under the layers of your learned identity. Uncover the layers so you can truly breathe again from the true center. Being aware of your infinite potential and access awakens the Master with the Master Key within. You have always been settled in oneness with All.

Franklin Gillette

Your body is a Temple. You are what you eat. Do not eat processed food, junk foods, filth, or disease carrying food, animals, or rodents. Some people say of these foods, 'well, it tastes good'.Most of the foods today that statically cause sickness, cancer, and disease ALL TATSE GOOD; it's well seasoned and prepared poison. THIS IS WHY SO MANY PEOPLE ARE SICK; mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually; because of being hooked to the 'taste' of poison, instead of being hooked on the truth and to real foods that heal and provide you with good health and wellness.Respect and honor your Temple- and it will honor you.

SupaNova Slom

Find the courage to ask yourself the questions your afraid to hear the answer to? Why... Because it's the only way you'll know which direction your truth lays.

Nikki Rowe

Each day is a blessing, and I awake wondering what wonderful thing, no matter how big or small, will happen to me today.

Ron Baratono

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