Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. 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.

Awakening is to see the old with new eyes.

Awakening is the quality of someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

Awakening is to realize that the truth is not that one carries oneself forward and experiences the myriad things... rather, the truth is that the myriad things come forward and experience themselves.

Beginning is important — well begun is half done

Beginning is important — a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

A Beginning is important — A good beginning makes a good ending

Beginning is important — He who says " A " at last comes to " Z

Birth is a leap into the unknown head first, just as death is a leap into the unknown feet first.

Birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.

Birth is the sudden opening of a window through which you look out upon stupendous prospect ...

Birth is the messenger of death.

A Discovery is great, if it is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new paths.

Discovery is secondary to persuasion — In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

Discovery is seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things.