What if???

Home    BLOG    FAQ    Wakeful Assists    One Million Dots    Count Me In!

In order to assist you in your recognition of being awake, we would like to supply a few little helpers. We plan to expand this as we go along:

1. First, in case there is nothing else standing in the way...

YOU HAVE PERMISSION

TO WAKE UP HERE & NOW!!!

2. Writings

    Here are links to a few writings that you may find helpful!

(Note: While I'd like to add to these, there are literally hundreds, perhaps thousands of powerful teachings on the nature of Reality, Awakening and so forth. Find them. Find the ones that resonate with you. If you really want, you can send us a link or a name of a book, etc. But PLEASE, do not send us your teacher's writings, or how great they are, etc. YOU are Great. Recognize your own Wakefulness and share THAT with the world!)

Quotes

(Below, I've offered quite a number of quotes which relate to Awakening to the Self, Awakening Humanity, Change, and so forth. I hope you will find them enlightening. And if you know of other short quotes that you'd recommend be here, send me an email at aja@onemillionawake.com )

"We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness" ~Thich Naht Hahn

"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."  - Helen Keller
 

"Are you depressed? Remember, within you is the Power. If you will but release a fraction of it, you can make the impossible possible." Dada J.P. Vaswani

“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

"The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises." —C.J. Jung

"The whole purpose of life is to gain enlightenment. Nothing else is significant compared to that completely natural, exalted state of consciousness. So always strive for that. Set your life around that goal. Don't get caught up in small things and then it will be yours."  - Maharshi Mahesh Yogi


"Enlightenment is irrespective of anything in the relative field; nothing can be an obstacle to enlightenment."  - Maharshi Mahesh Yogi


"In that supreme awakening, in that supreme awareness, in the state of supreme knowledge we have wholeness of life, absolute value of Being, pure infinity, pure eternity, pure immortality."  - Maharshi Mahesh Yogi
 

"If you separate yourself from the bodily conception and simply remain in the shelter of Consciousness, even NOW in this moment, you are happy, peaceful, and free from bondage." Song of Ashtavakra

"Do you realize the unimaginable greatness, the holiness of what you so casually call 'consciousness'? It is the unmanifest Absolute aware of its awareness through the manifestation, of which your mind-body is presently a part." Nisargadatta

"Although attempting to bring about world peace through the internal transformation of individuals is difficult, it is the only way." HH Dalai Lama

"It is our moral responsibility. Make attempt. It is no question of whether it is achieved in our lifetime or not. We are human beings. We have the responsibility to show the right path, or at least, make attempt for better future, although we may not live, we may not enjoy that brighter future. But it doesn't matter. This is a matter for humanity, a matter for the world. So no matter how limited the effect, we must make every effort for the promotion of peace and inner values." H.H. The Dalai Lama

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." Einstein

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." Buckminster Fuller

"The true value of the human being is determined by the measure and the sense in which one has attained liberation from the self." - Einstein

"There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence." - Meister Eckhart

"Of all the communities available to us there is not one I would want to devote myself to, except for the society of the true searchers, which has very few living members at any time." - Einstein

"You need to BE the change you want to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi

"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men." Goethe

"We're the ones we've been waiting for." Hopi Saying

"Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And in the total of all those acts will be written the history of a generation." - Robert Kennedy

"What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous..." - Thomas Merton

"Accept everything about yourself--I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end--no apologies, no regrets." Clark Moustakas

"What business have you with saving the world, when all the world needs is to be saved from you? Get out of the picture and see whether there is anything left to save." Nisargadatta

"When you desire the common good, the whole world desires with you. Make humanity's desire your own and work for it. There you cannot fail." - Nisargadatta

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell

"It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling." - Robert Pirsig

"Consciousness is the only one, singular, identifiable with its universal Source. The perceived spatial and temporal plurality of consciousness or minds is just an appearance or illusion." Erwin Schrödinger

"It is a grave error to accuse a man who pursues self-knowledge of 'turning his back on society'. The opposite would be more nearly true: that a man who fails to pursue self knowledge is and remains a danger to society, for he will tend to misunderstand everything that other people say or do, and remain blissfully unaware of the significance of many things he does himself." E.F. Schumacher

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." Dr. Seuss

"All the joy the world contains is through wishing happiness for others. All the misery the world contains has come through wanting pleasure for oneself." - Shantideva

"The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls." - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off." - Gloria Steinem

"Today, it strikes me that the true problem is the internal problem of complete freedom! The only salvation for mankind appears to be in a religious revolution of the individual." - Vimala Thakar

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." Henry David Thoreau

"True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others." - Voltaire

"Why are you unhappy? because 99 percent of everything you think, of everything you do is for yourself and there simply is not one, that you think is there." - Wei Wu Wei