1,235 Quotes About Awakening

The sooner we wake up and realise that we have a moral duty to guide and protect this planet, the sooner things will improve for every form of life on this planet.

The irony of life is a twisted game; but my god you learn fast, the ins and outs of how to play your part the best you can.

Truth is not fully explosive, but purely electric. You don't blow the world up with the truth; you shock it into motion.

I look inside myself and see it.There is something cominginto existence before Heaven and Earth. It is beyond existing and not existing. All of creation is born from nothingness. Nothingness expecting nothing in return. All are gifts.

The forest is peaceful, why aren't you? You hold onto things causing your confusion. Let nature teach you. Hear the bird's song then let go. If you know nature, you'll know Dhamma. If you know Dhamma, you'll know nature.

As a rule,I believe people shouldn't follow rules;rules should follow people.

I felt a thrill—a new civil affinity budding in my dreams and in the brick-and-mortar city, simultaneously: that we, the people, were awakening to the truth that a bundle of twigs is inconceivably strong.

Do you grow straight up like a redwood to the sunin choosing your heart and not list like a weed in the wind to the fads of the day?

Don't talk of Life as if its one big package of miseries - it is the very Essence within that passes through both you, and your enemies and every permissible illusion. Once you're opened to, and are awakened to your TRUE NATURE, fireworks light up your path, irrespective whether it is a "Tariqa", or a pathless one!