Best Awakening Quotes

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.

When you are so full of sorrow
that you can’t walk, can’t cry anymore,
think about the green foliage that sparkles after
the rain. When the daylight exhausts you, when
you hope a final night will cover the world,
think about the awakening of a young child.

Life is one big road with lots of signs, So when you riding through the ruts, Don’t you complicate your mind Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy Don’t bury your thoughts; put your vision to reality.

You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.

The capacity for total wonder is the very substance of awakening.

You can be creative only when there is abandonment-which means, really, there is no sense of compulsion, no fear of not being, of not gaining, of not arriving. Then there is great austerity, simplicity, and with it there is love.

Those who awaken never rest in one place. Like swans, they rise and leave the lake. On the air they rise and fly an invisible course. Their food is knowledge. They live on emptiness. They have seen how to break free. Who can follow them?

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

In patriarchal culture men are especially inclined to see love as something they should receive without expending effort. More often than not they do not want to do the work that love demands. When the practice of love invites us to enter a place of potential bliss that is at the same time a place of critical awakening and pain, many of us turn our backs on love.

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

On the flip side, I’ve also had to struggle with saying yes. Before I did this research and before I had my own breakdown and spiritual awakening around this work, my motto was, Don’t do anything that you’re already not great at doing. Which I think is the way the majority of adults in our culture live. Authenticity is also about the courage and the vulnerability to say, Yeah, I’ll try it. I feel pretty uncomfortable and I feel a little vulnerable, but I’ll try it!

When I was on Broadway, my most recent Broadway show was ‘Spring Awakening,’ and every night I did a topless scene.

I have been involved with ‘Spring Awakening’ for six years. I am 20 now – I just turned 20 in August – and I originally auditioned when I was 14 years old. I auditioned for Michael Mayer, Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater.

I worked consistently on Broadway from when I was 8 years old through ‘Spring Awakening,’ which I left in 2008.

I’ve known since day one of working on Spring Awakening – back in 1999 – that it was special.

One of my favorite things about ‘Spring Awakening’ is that it is enjoyable and important for both kids and adults to see.

There’s top 40 R&B/hip-hop, which is probably sexy but you wouldn’t listen to it for a musical awakening.

True awakening involves embracing every aspect of yourself with love and acceptance, including everything you have been denying, hiding or trying to fix. To deny these things is a judgment of them and judgment will keep you forever imprisoned within separation.

You cannot be present in an abstract way. Presence is not about disappearing into nothingness. You can only be present with something that is actually here.

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.

I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world, which, beautiful though it may be, is still a land of captivity.

It is not until you awaken and become fully present that you will realize that you have not been present. It is not until you awaken that you will realize you have been asleep, dreaming that you are awake.

Liberalism and capitalism address themselves to the cool, well-balanced mind. They proceed by strict logic, eliminating any appeal to the emotions. Socialism, on the contrary, works on the emotions, tries to violate logical considerations by rousing a sense of personal interest and to stifle the voice of reason by awakening primitive instincts.

If you fully awaken, you will not know yourself. Understand this, and you will understand all.

Everything that occurs in your life is an opportunity for awakening. There are no exceptions!

Awakening is not something you achieve. It is something you relax into.

Spring time is the land awakening.

Do not seek the answers. Let the answers find you.

I know that some people think differently about pilots, but I really enjoyed shooting Awakening.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.

Play touches and stimulates vitality, awakening the whole person – mind, body, intelligence and creativity.

The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.