Awakening Buddhism Quotes

#1. The Buddha's dharma didn't teach peace and relaxation; it taught awakening - often rude awakening.

Jay Michaelson

#2. It is the ultimate religion, through which all humans neuropsychologically morph into Buddhas, or Enlightened Beings.

Abhijit Naskar

#3. Zen has a pronounced iconoclastic tendency, and regards the study of texts, doctrines, and dogmas as a potential hindrance to spiritual awakening, relying instead on humour, spontaneity, unconventionality, poetry, and other forms of artistic expression to communicate the idea of enlightenment

Damien Keown

#4. Awakening does not mean a change in difficulty, it means a change in how those difficulties are met.

Mark Epstein

#5. I don't watch a lot of T.V., and I hardly ever have time to keep up with series, though I do love reruns of old favorites from my childhood like 'Dr. Who', 'The Goodies', and 'Get Smart.'

Garth Nix

#6. The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

Emma Goldman

#7. Perfection itself is not the ultimate goal
but the ultimate condition of life.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#8. My dream artist to play at prom would be Frank Ocean. 'Thinking Of You' is one of my favorite songs. He makes really sweet music for slow dancing at prom.

Bella Thorne

#9. Life is a series of awakenings.

Swami Mukerji

#10. In Buddhism, mindfulness is the key. Mindfulness is the energy that sheds light on all things and all activities, producing the power of concentration, bringing forth deep insight and awakening. Mindfulness is the base of Buddhist practice

Nhat Hanh

#11. Let whatever happens, be what needs to happen, so that I may awaken.

T. Scott McLeod

#12. To just be--to be--amidst all doings, achievings, and becomings. This is the natural state of mind, or original, most fundamental state of being. This is unadulterated Buddha-nature. This is like finding our balance.

Lama Surya Das

#13. You will bring yourself the suffering you need to bring yourself so that you may awaken.

T. Scott McLeod

#14. The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.

Lauren Graham

#15. It will not be enough to rely on experts. Ordinary citizens must become experts too. It will take public opinion on a wide scale to ensure that world leaders act.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#16. The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none.

Thomas Carlyle

#17. Life gives you exactly what you need to awaken.

T. Scott McLeod

#18. Awakening the mystical kundalini prematurely is dangerous, because unless you have refined your being, you'll get all screwed up, entities, weird powers ... strange things. That is why I don't teach anyone how to open up the chakras.

Frederick Lenz

#19. Once you awaken, you will have no interest in judging those who sleep.

James Blanchard Cisneros

#20. If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it's fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there's an arrow in your heart ...

Pema Chodron

#21. In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger.

Nhat Hanh

#22. He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#23. Being vegetarian here also means that we do not consume dairy and egg products, because they are products of the meat industry. If we stop consuming, they will stop producing. Only collective awakening can create enough determination for action.

Thich Nhat Hanh