“A person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing you to grow. Without them, it sleeps- seldom to awaken. The sleeper must awaken.”

“Awakened at midnight
by the sound of the water jar
cracking from the ice”

“Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.”

“Religions grow out of the deepest needs of individuals sharing a common awakening, and are not created by "engineers of the soul."”

“Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.”

“You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.”

“Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you're the one who must decide how you handle it.”

“We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening”

“When I first went there I discovered an entirely new approach of looking at life. It was as if I had sudden awakened from deep slumber.”

“Love is not to be found in someone else but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person.”