Mental Awakening Quotes

Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.

Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

Identify your painful thought, question it, and wake yourself up. No one else can.

A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.

The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, some part of us awakes which slumbers all the rest of the day and night... All memorable events, I should say, transpire in morning time and in a morning atmosphere. The Vedas say, “All intelligences awake with the morning.

I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you.

Wake the sleeper must, and confront his fears, or risk being lost in the dark places of the mind forever.

i'm in a muddle about a lot of things -- i've just discovered that i've a mind, and i'm starting to read" "read what?" "everything. i have to pick and choose, of course, but mostly things that make me think.

I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I awoke from a kind of hypnotic trance in which I had been all my life.

It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.

Waking up begins with saying am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at the ceiling and down into itself until it has recognized I, and therefrom deduced I am, I am now. Here comes next, and is at least negatively reassuring; because here, this morning, is where it has expected to find itself: what’s called at home.

When your mind opens, the whole world falls into place.

It's just a constant thing when the mind starts to wake up to itself.

Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.

The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.

When I ceased to accept the teaching of my youth, it was not so much a process of giving up beliefs, as of discovering that I had never really believed.

The birth of the mind is the death of the senses

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

There's a difference, you know, between faith and playing make-believe. One will make you grow. The other one will make you sleep.

The biases in our society stems from the orthodox mentality. It is very deep-rooted in our country but we need to wake up.

Those questions - when you think about a thought, when you're believing a thought or concept and you question it - you realize that it changes things. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry.