"I am awake." -Buddha
As the Buddha wandered around India shortly after his enlightenment, he encountered several men who were stricken by the Buddha’s extraordinary radiance and peaceful presence, recognizing him to be a very extraordinary being. They asked him: “Are you a god?” “No,” he replied. “Are you a reincarnation of god?” “No,” he replied.”Are you a wizard, then?” “No.” “Well, are you a man?” “No.” “So what are you?” They asked, befuddled. Buddha simply replied: “I am awake.” Buddha means “the awakened one.” How to awaken is all he taught. -Buddhist Teaching
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.” -Paul Valery
“Sleep is comfortable, but awakening is interesting.” -Inayat Kahn 1882-1927
“When one realizes one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.”
— P.D. Ouspensky
“I called the world of phenomena an illusion, I called my eyes and my tongue an accident, valueless phenomena. Now, that is all over; I have awakened, I have really awakened and have just been born today.” — Hermann Hesse (Siddhartha) .
“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.’ (The Essential Alan Watts)” — Alan Watts .
Even if you have not awakened, if you realize that your perceptions and activities are all like dreams and you view them with detachment, not giving rise to grasping and rejecting discrimination, then this is virtually tantamount to awakening from the dream.” — Muso Kokushi .
“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.” — Jean-Yves Leloup (Compassion and Meditation: The Spiritual Dynamic between Buddhism and Christianity) .
“Peace of mind brings nice sleep.” -Dalai Lama