personal awakening Quotes

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.

I know that I've been given more than beyond measure. I come alive when I see beyond my fears. I know that I've been given more than earthly treasure. I come alive when I've broken down and given you control.

But for me there is neither Monday nor Sunday: there are days which pass in disorder, and then, sudden lightning like this one. Nothing has changed and yet everything is different. I can't describe it, it's like the Nausea and yet it's just the opposite: at last an adventure happens to me and when I question myself I see that it happens that I am myself and that I am here; I am the one who splits in the night, I am as happy as the hero of a novel.

Beijing was a huge slap in the face, and it forced me to look at myself. I have to realise that this is my life.

I was asleep at the wheel before cancer shook me awake.

You meet all kinds of people that help put life in perspective and turn the horror into some kind of lesson or avenue of awakening that lives with you all your days.

I began my pilgrimage on the first of January in 1953. It is my spiritual birthday of sorts. It was a period in which I was merged with the whole. No longer was I a seed buried under the ground, but I felt as a flower reaching out effortlessly toward the sun.

The greatest gift you can give a person is to wake them up to remind them of who the really are.

The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best that is in us. It is only through our own personal awakening that the world can be awakened. We cannot give what we do not have.

Each person's life is like a mandala - a vast, limitless circle. We stand in the center of our own circle, and everything we see, hear and think forms the mandala of our life ... everything that shows up in your mandala is a vehicle for your awakening.

The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.

I was journaling in Florence, and I was like, 'Oh, I have to come out of the closet. I have to break up with this guy' - he was my 'roommate.' So that was my awakening moment, when I stepped into my own skin while in a foreign country by myself and had a very stereotypical moment of revelation.

Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.

The sooner one develops compassion in this journey, the better. Compassion lets us appreciate that each individual is doing what he or she must do, and that there is no reason to judge another person or oneself. You merely do what you can to further your own awakening.

Like most people, I had several awakenings.

We each need to make our lion's roar - to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears - to declare our right to awaken.

I've reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting.

You have a spark. It is real. It is you. And right now, it is being activated. You cannot ignore the spark any longer.

Im like a man whos been half-asleep all his life, trying to find out what he was like before he woke up.

O timid one, awaken, exert yourself, draw back the curtains your training and background have hung over the windows of your soul.

I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.

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

As we awaken individually, we will act more powerfully collectively.

My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.