Man lives on earth not once, but three times:
the first stage of his life is his continual sleep;
the second, sleeping and waking by turns;
the third, waking forever.
-Gustav Fechner
Waking up to who you are
requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be.
-Alan Watts
As I awaken you,
I awaken me.
-Joe Vitale
I awaken me.
-Joe Vitale
I am awake; I am in the world -
I expect
no further assurance.
-Louise Gluck
I expect
no further assurance.
-Louise Gluck
Truth require sudden awakening,
but the phenomenal level calls for gradual cultivation.
-Saying
Awakening is not a thing.
It is not a goal, not a concept.
It is not something to be attained.
It is not something to be attained.
It is a metamorphosis.
If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying
‘And then I shall have wings and antennae,’ there will never be a butterfly.
The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation.
When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.
If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying
‘And then I shall have wings and antennae,’ there will never be a butterfly.
The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation.
When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.
-Alejandro Jodorowsky
Awake Awhile
It does not have to be Forever,
Right Now.
One Step upon the Sky's soft skirt
Would be enough.
-Hafiz
The essence of awakening to true reality
is to eat all day and not to swallow a grain or rice,
to walk all day and not tread an inch of ground,
to have no distinction at all between subject and object,
and to be inseparable from all things all day long.
-Zen Master Pan Yun (paraphrased)
To be awake is to be alive.
I have never met a man who is awake.
How could I have looked him in the face?
-Henry David Thoreua
