Jenny Han Quotes

Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.

When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

Once I started to look i finally began to see.

Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world.

You can't get wise with sleep still in your eyes no matter what your dream might be.

The most important dreams occur while people are fully awake.

That was like the moment of revelation for me that in fact we are not the lunatic fringe.

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

It's amazing in the blink of an eye you finally see the light.

In French we have this word déclic. It's when you have, suddenly, a light shining and you say, "This is what I want to do."

Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.

I guess experience is just learning at first hand the things you knew all along anyway.

It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.

Now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened.

Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.

My eyes were closed, they're open now

What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word--the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man rub his eyes in his waking dream, and put two and two together. Enlightenment is cold water.

You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they're ready to get it.

The secret is not to dream," she whispered. "The secret is to wake up. Waking up is harder. I have woken up and I am real. I know where I come from and I know where I'm going. You cannot fool me any more. Or touch me. Or anything that is mine.

Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.

You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I am."

The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.

Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this 'reality' as you view your dreams.