Quotes about Awakening

I have seen whole countries shaken by the power of God.

Suffering and loss have this extraordinary capacity to alert and awaken us to the gift that life is.

read the story in the book of Genesis about Jacob waking up from a dream and saying, Surely God was in this place, and I, I wasn't aware of it. Jacob is waking up from a dream, but he's waking up in a larger sense as well, to the divine presence in all of life.

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you

We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches.

Die before you die, there is no chance after.

Know, by sad experience, what it is to be lulled to sleep with a false peace. Long was I lulled asleep; long did I think myself a Christian, when I knew nothing of the Lord Jesus Christ.

I opened two gifts this morning. They were my eyes.

I, of course, meditate for two hours every morning. It's part of my schedule I wake up at 4 a.m. every day and I love it.

There is no holy life. There is no war between good and evil. There is no sin and no redemption. None of these things matter to the real you. But they all matter hugely to the false you, the one who believes in the separate self. You have tried to take your separate self, with all its loneliness and anxiety and pride, to the door of enlightenment. But it will never go through, because it is a ghost.

As this life evaporated before his eyes, Siddhartha felt a shiver, as if someone had ripped off his winter coat and left him naked in the cold. But he wasn't naked, and far from dead. Instead of the mask of images and memories, surrounding him on every side was something pure and free: life itself. He couldn't remember who he was. There was nothing left of his fears and dreams, nothing to do, nothing to want. He was simply alive, the breath of the breath, the eye of the eye.

We need to awaken the next generation to understand that we are all change-makers. The nation is not as strong as its government but its next generation