The dream we are living has absolutely no purpose other than our awakening.
I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.
The actual experience of awakening can only be in the present moment.
Awakening is about liberating yourself from the prison that is the world of the mind and daring to be here as all that you are.
The journey of prayer is nothing more or less than a gradual awakening to the reality of recognizing what is already there.
Most people like to live in illusions.
. . . Suddenly normal wasn't good enough.
True progress comes not through action, but through awakening.
Life is a dream and death an awakening.
I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.
Even if you have not awakened, if you realize that your perceptions and activities are all like dreams and you view them with detachment, not giving rise to grasping and rejecting discrimination, then this is virtually tantamount to awakening from the dream.
Don't change just so people will like you! Like yourself and your relationships will change. There are people who will love you for - YOU.
This is the Easter message, that awakening is possible, to the goodness of God, the sacredness of human life, the sisterhood and brotherhood of all.
The ground under the Bilva tree is very holy. Meditating here quickly brings about an awakening of the religious instinct. Shri Ramakrishna used to say so.
Times are difficult globally; awakening is no longer a luxury or an ideal. It’s becoming critical. We don’t need to add more depression, more discouragement, or more anger to what’s already here. It’s becoming essential that we learn how to relate sanely with difficult times. The earth seems to be beseeching us to connect with joy and discover our innermost essence. This is the best way that we can benefit others.
Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dali.
What is irreversible in the Arab world is this intellectual revolution, the awakening that we can get rid of dictators. That is here, and the people have this sentiment and this political power. They feel that they can do it, and it's still there. At the same time, we don't know what is going to happen. So to be very quick by saying, "Oh, revolutions and Arab Spring," and - you know, what I'm advocating is to take a cautious optimism as the starting point of our analysis and to look at what is happening.
Intellect may arrive at certain inferences, but intellect is an unconsicous phenomenon. You are almost behaving sleepily. Intelligence is awakening, and unless you are fully awake, whatsoever you decide is bound to be wrong somewhere or other.
I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.