#Awakening Quotes

“Those who don't feel this love pulling them like a river, those who don't drink dawn like a cup of springwater or take in sunset like a supper, those who don't want to change, let them sleep.”

“Love has come to rule and transform; Stay awake, my heart, stay awake.”

“Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings.... Leave and don't look away from the sun as you go, in whose light you're sometimes crescent, sometimes full.”

“Throw off your tiredness. Let me show you one tiny spot of the beauty that can't be spoken.”

“Wake up Lovers, It is time to start the Journey! Let us kiss the ground & flow like a river towards the Ocean. Only love can lead the way.”

“Walk out like someone suddenly born into colour. Do it now.”

“Some nights stay up till dawn, as the moon sometimes does for the sun. Be a full bucket pulled up the dark way of a well, then lifted out into light.”

“New organs of perception come into being as a result of necessity. Therefore, O man, increase your necessity, so that you may increase your perception.”

“I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life.”

“The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you Don't go back to sleep! You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep! People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch, The door is round and open Don't go back to sleep!”

“You must ask for what you really want. / Don't go back to sleep. / The door is round and open. / Don't go back to sleep.”

“Every midwife knowsthat not until a mother’s wombsoftens from the pain of laborwill a way unfoldand the infant find that opening to be born.Oh friend!There is treasure in your heart,it is heavy with child.Listen.All the awakened ones,like trusted midwives are saying,'welcome this pain.It opens the dark passage of Grace.”

“The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.”

“As you awaken you go beyond the need to perform and achieve when you go beyond it, you begin to develop an increased susceptibility to the love extended by others as well as the uncontrollable urge to extend it. Love becomes what you are.”

“Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.”

“Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.”

“Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon - deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.”

“Their understandingBegins to swell and the approaching tideWill shortly fill the reasonable shoresThat now lie foul and muddy.”

“Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.”

“I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.”

“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.”

“Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life”

“What we want now is an immense awakening of Râjasika energy, for the whole country is wrapped in the shroud of Tamas. The people of this land must be fed and clothed-must be awakened -must be made more fully active. Otherwise they will become inert, as inert as trees and stones. So, I say, eat large quantities of fish and meat, my boy!”

“Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.”

“The civilized people of today look back with horror at their medieval ancestors who wantonly destroyed great works of art or sat slothfully by while they destroyed. We have passed this stage.... Here in the U.S. we turn our rivers and streams into sewers and dumping grounds, we pollute the air, we destroy our forests and exterminate fishes, birds and mammals - not to speak of vulgarizing charming landscapes with hideous advertisements. But at best it looks as if our people were awakening.”

“The Heart is like a candle,longing to be lit!”

“You are not one you are a Thousand. Just Light your Lantern.”

“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.”

“Those who don't want to change, let them sleep.”

“Blows are what awaken us & help to break the dream. They show us the insufficiency of this world & make us long to escape, to have freedom.”

“. . . If you are really my children, you will fear nothing, stop at nothing. You will be like lions. We must rouse India and the whole world. No cowardice.”

“Those who dream must be awakened, and the deeper the people are who slumber, or the deeper they slumber, the more important it is that they be awakened, and the more powerfully must they be awakened.”

“There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.”

“This world's existence is one night long. There's a great lively gathering that night, but some people sleep through it.”

“Death is not earnest in the same way the eternal is. To the earnestness of death belongs precisely that remarkable capacity for awakening, that resonance of a profound mockery which, detached from the thought of the eternal, is an empty and often brash jest, but together with the thought of the eternal is just what it should be, utterly different from the insipid solemness which least of all captures and holds a thought with tension like that of death.”

“I’m really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don’t remember!”

“This phantom world gave you false signs But you turned from the illusion and journeyed to the land of truth.”

“Who gets up early to discover the moment light begins?”

“I'm not a teacher, but an awakener.”

“I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.”

“A bird half wakened in the lunar noonSang halfway through its little inborn tune.”

“Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207”

“No mortal is alert enough to be present at the first dawn of spring.”

“We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.”

“Age is nothing; waking up is everything.”

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

“At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.”

“The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.”

“Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life.”

“I must conclude that Conscience, if that be the name of it, was not given us for no purpose, or for a hindrance. However flattering order and expediency may look, it is but the repose of a lethargy, and we will choose rather to be awake, though it be stormy, and maintain ourselves on this earth, and in this life, as we may, without signing our death-warrant. Let us see if we cannot stay here, where He has put us, on his own conditions. Does not his law reach as far as his light? The expedients of the nations clash with one another: only the absolutely right is expedient for all.”