Dennis Lehane Quotes

Whether you have been aware of your thoughts in the past or not, now you are becoming aware. Right now, with the knowledge of The Secret, you are waking up from a deep sleep and becoming aware!

Neither. I am just one who has woken up while the rest of you are still sleeping.

When one speaks of awakening, it means de-hypnotizatio n; coming to your senses. But of course to do that, you have to go out of your mind.

It's about waking up. A child wakes up over and over again, and notices that she's living. She dreams along, loving the exuberant life of the senses, in love with beauty and power, oblivious to herself -- and then suddenly, bingo, she wakes up and feels herself alive. She notices her own awareness. And she notices that she is set down here, mysteriously, in a going world.

You can’t change what you haven’t realized yet. Once you realize what you were asleep to, the change happens on its own.

Theoretically there is no absolute proof that one's awakening in the morning (the finding oneself again in the saddle of one's personality) is not really a quite unprecedented event, a perfectly original birth.

You mine your own past in order to get to know yourself.

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.

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

I want to change awareness.

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.

Realisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realisation is revealed.

As a child, a person builds up an egoic sense - the child has a name, has an "I," has a mind. But then, to awaken, a person needs to completely transcend that sense of ego.

The only mistake that we can make as human beings is to be asleep, unaware of ourselves.

But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.

There's a brief moment when you first wake up, where you have no memories. A blissful blank slate, a happy emptiness.

Strictly speaking, you don't think: Thinking happens to you.

In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained. There is silent observation without choice and condemnation, from which there comes understanding.

Life is the constant opportunity to wake up.

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

Awareness is our true self; it's what we are. So we don't have to try to develop awareness; we simply need to notice how we block awareness with our thoughts, our fantasies, our opinions, and our judgments. We're either in awareness, which is our natural state, or we're doing something else.

Meditation is one of the ways in which the spiritual man keeps himself awake.

Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?

A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.