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title: "3 Awaken Quotes By Jed McKenna"
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> [“The point is to wake up, not to earn a Ph.D. In waking up.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jed-mckenna/the-point-is-to-wake-up-not-to-earn-a-ph-d-in-waking-up/)

[Jed McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jed-mckenna/)

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> [“Wake up first. Wake up, and then you can double back and perhaps be of some use to others if you still…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jed-mckenna/wake-up-first-wake-up-and-then-you-can-double-back-and-perhaps-be-of/)

[Jed McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jed-mckenna/)

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> [“Do you want to awaken? To stop being a false, artificial, self-benighted being? Then developing and sharpening this sense—the ability to detect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jed-mckenna/do-you-want-to-awaken-to-stop-being-a-false-artificial-self-benighted/)

[Jed McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jed-mckenna/)

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## Other authors on Awaken

## More by Jed McKenna

> [“The American dream of freedom and abundance is just a child’s rendering of true freedom and abundance, and serves only to convince people who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jed-mckenna/the-american-dream-of-freedom-and-abundance-is-just-a-child-s/)

[Jed McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jed-mckenna/)

> [“I don’t see it as my role to save or rescue anybody any more than regular people feel the need to rescue each other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jed-mckenna/i-don-t-see-it-as-my-role-to-save-or-rescue-anybody-any-more-than/)

[Jed McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jed-mckenna/)

> [“Before enlightenment I believed my ego was me, then enlightenment comes along and no more ego, only the underlying reality. Now it’s after enlightenment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jed-mckenna/before-enlightenment-i-believed-my-ego-was-me-then-enlightenment/)

[Jed McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jed-mckenna/)

> [“No disrespect to the Buddha is intended. If there was a Buddha and he was enlightened, then it’s Buddhism that insults his memory, not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jed-mckenna/no-disrespect-to-the-buddha-is-intended-if-there-was-a-buddha-and-he/)

[Jed McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jed-mckenna/)

> [“Suffering just means you’re having a bad dream. Happiness means you’re having a good dream. Enlightenment means getting out of the dream altogether.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jed-mckenna/suffering-just-means-you-re-having-a-bad-dream-happiness-means-you-re/)

[Jed McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jed-mckenna/)

> [“The point is to wake up, not to earn a Ph.D. In waking up.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jed-mckenna/the-point-is-to-wake-up-not-to-earn-a-ph-d-in-waking-up/)

[Jed McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jed-mckenna/)

> [“There’s nothing left to contend against and nothing left that must be done, and there will never be anything that must be done ever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jed-mckenna/there-s-nothing-left-to-contend-against-and-nothing-left-that-must-be/)

[Jed McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jed-mckenna/)

> [“How many years have I spent lighting incense and candles? Meditating? Chasing after gurus and teachers, reading all that crap, following every stupid new…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jed-mckenna/how-many-years-have-i-spent-lighting-incense-and-candles-meditating/)

[Jed McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jed-mckenna/)

> [“Once you start seeing this place for the madhouse it is, you can’t stop seeing it that way. It’s everywhere, everyone. It doesn’t make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jed-mckenna/once-you-start-seeing-this-place-for-the-madhouse-it-is-you-can-t/)

[Jed McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jed-mckenna/)

> [“Further   Whoever was responsible for the idea of dividing self into lower and higher parts committed a serious crime against humanity. This division…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jed-mckenna/further-whoever-was-responsible-for-the-idea-of-dividing-self-into/)

[Jed McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jed-mckenna/)

> [“The emperor has no clothes, and sooner or later everyone is going to see what’s staring them right in the face. When that happens,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jed-mckenna/the-emperor-has-no-clothes-and-sooner-or-later-everyone-is-going-to/)

[Jed McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jed-mckenna/)

> [“The you that you think of as you (and that thinks of you as you, and so on) is not you, it’s just the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jed-mckenna/the-you-that-you-think-of-as-you-and-that-thinks-of-you-as-you-and-so/)

[Jed McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jed-mckenna/)

> [“There seems to be an attitude that opinion counts for something. Goethe said none are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they’re…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jed-mckenna/there-seems-to-be-an-attitude-that-opinion-counts-for-something/)

[Jed McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jed-mckenna/)

> [“I don’t have something you don’t; you believe something I don’t.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jed-mckenna/i-don-t-have-something-you-don-t-you-believe-something-i-don-t/)

[Jed McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jed-mckenna/)

> [“The really strange thing about being awake isn’t being awake; it’s the people that aren’t. They’re walking and talking in their dreamstates; some of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jed-mckenna/the-really-strange-thing-about-being-awake-isn-t-being-awake-it-s-the/)

[Jed McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jed-mckenna/)

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