Awake Quotes - Page 2

Before we can realize who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person we think we are, here and now, is at best an impostor and a stranger.

Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.

It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true.

Libya is a war of the womb. A product of the romantic minds of women who fantasize about an Arab awakening. It is estrogen-driven paternalism on steroids.

Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

Unlimited inner strength can only be awakened when it is in the service of Love....When we align ourselves with that love and act in service of that love, anything is possible.

Life is a series of awakenings

Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true.

When you catch on to your awakening, the world does not change. You just see it differently, that's all. You acquire a feeling of immortality. A feeling of divine bliss, so to speak, when things no longer have the power to affect you.

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

Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.

Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.

Ain't nothin wrong, ain't nothing right and still I sit and lie awake all night.

At first, He shook us very tenderly but now His shaking has become violent, because He has not succeeded in awakening us... God is going to shake everything in sight so that He is revealed as the only unshakable power!

When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what's left? A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are.

Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream.

The only real service we can render to that which we perceive and interpret in phenomenal existence as 'others' is by awakening to universal consciousness ourselves.

The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good.

The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work