Awakening proverbs

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◆ Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, they'll say you're crazy and you're blasphemous, and they'll either put you in jail or in a nut house (which is pretty much the same thing). However if you wake up in India and tell your friends and relations, ‘My goodness, I've just discovered that I'm God,' they'll laugh and say, ‘Oh, congratulations, at last you found out.

- Alan Wilson Watts99

◆ As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. … That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life… Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind.

- Anthony de Mello99

◆ WE ALREADY HAVE everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement. All these trips that we lay on ourselves—the heavy-duty fearing that we're bad and hoping that we're good, the identities that we so dearly cling to, the rage, the jealousy and the addictions of all kinds—never touch our basic wealth. They are like clouds that temporarily block the sun. But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.

- Pema Ch?dr?n99

◆ When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.

- P.D. Ouspensky99

◆ A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry99

◆ Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practice this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.

- Anthony de Mello99

◆ People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.

- Anthony de Mello99

◆ For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn't understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.

- Cynthia Occelli99

◆ No one and nothing outside of you can give you salvation, or free you from the misery. You have to light your own lamp. You have to know the miniature universe that you yourself are.

- Banani Ray99

◆ Once again, we are reminded that awakening, or enlightenment is not the property of Buddhism, any more than Truth is the property of Christianity. Neither the Buddha nor the Christ belongs exclusively to the communities that were founded in their names. They belong to all people of goodwill, all who are attentive to the secret which lives in the depths of their breath and their consciousness. (14)

- Jean-Yves Leloup99

◆ You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening.

- Frank Herbert99

◆ Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

- Ramana Maharshi99

◆ The gift of willingness is the only thing that stands between the quiet desperation of a disingenuous life and the actualization of unexpressed potential.

- Jim McDonald99

◆ My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.

- Adyashanti99

◆ Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had.

- Elizabeth Berg99