Quotes about Awakening

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements. Votes: 4

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful. Votes: 4

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. Votes: 4

Awakening is natural,delusion is not Votes: 3

Awakening into love is a lifelong path. Votes: 3

Awakening is the purpose that enfolds all purposes. Votes: 3

Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought. Votes: 3

Awakening is dynamic, Constantly evolving in accordance with life's realities Votes: 3

The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape. Votes: 3

Awakening others is an impossible endeavor until I myself am awakened. Votes: 3

May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers. Votes: 3

Awakening Call: You're Not in love if it carries a burden. Votes: 3

Awakening is not something you achieve. It is something you relax into. Votes: 3

Awakening is not changing who you are, but discarding who you are not. Votes: 3

Awakening in the morning returns us to life, and to awareness of death. Votes: 3

Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path. Votes: 3

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us. Votes: 3

Awakening is usually precipitated by the honest, sincere, inquiry into who you really are. Votes: 3

I know that some people think differently about pilots, but I really enjoyed shooting Awakening. Votes: 3

I know that some people think differently about pilots, but I really enjoyed shooting 'Awakening'. Votes: 3

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational. Votes: 3

Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. Votes: 3

Female, I give you fair warning: you are playing with fire" - Tegan to Elise (Midnight Awakening Votes: 3

The Seven Factors of Awakening are mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go. Votes: 3

Majestic and stately as Conrad Richter''s Awakening Land Trilogy, Evangeline is a big book from a big mind. Votes: 3

I've known since day one of working on 'Spring Awakening' - back in 1999 - that it was special. Votes: 3

Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go. Votes: 3

Awakening does not mean a change in difficulty, it means a change in how those difficulties are met. Votes: 3

I worked consistently on Broadway from when I was 8 years old through 'Spring Awakening,' which I left in 2008. Votes: 3

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. Votes: 3

Awakening your spiritual self is like having a second childhood with faulty parents, broken bones and proverbial brussel sprouts." Votes: 3

Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world. Votes: 3

Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous. Votes: 3

When I was on Broadway, my most recent Broadway show was 'Spring Awakening,' and every night I did a topless scene. Votes: 3

One of my favorite things about 'Spring Awakening' is that it is enjoyable and important for both kids and adults to see. Votes: 3

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again. Votes: 3

If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven? Votes: 3

I started off in musical theater, yeah. It was one of my first jobs; it was in Spring Awakening in London, which was amazing. Votes: 3

I'm hoping to do more with my music. I did the stage musical 'Spring Awakening' recently and it reignited the love I have for singing. Votes: 3

Awakening is about liberating yourself from the prison that is the world of the mind and daring to be here as all that you are. Votes: 3

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation. Votes: 3

I saw in a dream a table where all the elements fell into place as required. Awakening, I immediately wrote it down on a piece of paper. Votes: 3

All arts lie in man, though not all are apparent. Awakening brings them out. To be taught is nothing; everything is in man waiting to be awakened. Votes: 3

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts. Votes: 3

Upon awakening in the morning, I wondered if the proceedings of the night before had been a dream. It was hard to believe that I was the world's heavyweight champion. Votes: 3

Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft. Votes: 3

Awakening to who we really are is at the heart of yoga. . . .Yoga offers a path to this underlying field of being, which is the source of creativity, fulfillment, and abundance. Votes: 3

Soon we shall discover that the temple of all humanity is nothing less that the Temple of the Living God!" ~ Chapter One, "The Awakening" ~ Discovering the Bliss of your True Divine Reality Votes: 3

My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform. Votes: 3

The stopping of the Judicial courts, had been blended, in the minds of some people, with the redress of grievances considered only as a mode of awakening the attention of the legislature. Votes: 3

Now don't think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is the beginning of a life lived from your true nature. Votes: 3

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken. Votes: 3

Love is how it feels to recognize our essential unity. Awakening to oneness is the experience of Big Love. Knowing you are one with all, you find yourself in love with all. Votes: 3

Awakening to the truth is a deep realization of what you are as an experience. What is it that is listening? What is it that is feeling? Feel it. Sense it. Welcome it. Votes: 3

Author conveys contemporary respect for Methodist preachers who rode the circuit of frontier settlements to put themselves at risk for the Gospel near the Second Great Awakening. They were dubbed 'God's light artillery'. Votes: 3

Awakening is not a journey of discovering a distant land or a coveted secret, but rather, it is a journey of surrendering to what has always been present but shrouded in illusion and disillusion. Votes: 3

I think we are making a mistake, a very big mistake if we look at what we call the Arab Awakening only by looking at the whole dynamics in political and not in economic terms. Votes: 3

We need a revival in the country," Paul said. "We need another Great Awakening with tent revivals of thousands of people saying, 'reform or see what's going to happen if we don't reform.' Votes: 3

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought. Votes: 3

So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person. [True Love. A Practice for Awakening the Heart.] Votes: 3

Awakening the mystical kundalini prematurely is dangerous, because unless you have refined your being, you'll get all screwed up, entities, weird powers ... strange things. That is why I don't teach anyone how to open up the chakras. Votes: 3

Awakening of Western thought will not be complete until that thought steps outside itself and comes to an understanding with the search for a world-view as this manifests itself in the thought of mankind as a whole. Votes: 3

Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it. Votes: 3

We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful. Votes: 3

I have been involved with 'Spring Awakening' for six years. I am 20 now - I just turned 20 in August - and I originally auditioned when I was 14 years old. I auditioned for Michael Mayer, Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater. Votes: 3

A great Awakening has begun. People around the world are opening their eyes to their own spiritual natures. They are beginning to see who they truly are and what they have always been-beings with an eternal past and a glorious future. Votes: 3

I always try to avoid looking at the section where my books would be shelved, but I do know that my most reliable neighbor to the right is Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening', which is dispiriting. That's a book I don't want to re-read. Votes: 3

The Myth is the Myth of the Blood, which, under the sign of the Swastika, released the World Revolution. It is the Awakening of the Soul of the Race, which, after a period of long slumber, victoriously put an End to Racial Chaos. Votes: 3

When 'The Awakening' was published it was considered so scandalous it was banned in the author's home-town library, and she herself was barred from the Fine Arts Club in the same city. What the novel has to offer, among other things, is honesty. Votes: 3

Betty's a good Muslim woman and wife. I don't imagine many other women might put up with the way I am. Awakening this brainwashed black man and telling this arrogant, devilish white man the truth about himself, Betty understands, is a full-time job Votes: 3

Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening. Votes: 3

Stop all delays, all seeking and all striving. Put down your concepts, ideas and beliefs. For one instant be still and directly encounter the silent unknown core of your being. In that instant Freedom will embrace you and reveal the Awakening that you are. Votes: 3

Awakening is the ultimate of religion. Religion is, not really, in believing something outside of your being. It is not in believing or following some authoritative figure, the church, temple, organization or any ideological system of belief. Religion is trusting in what is eternal within you. Votes: 3

When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery. Votes: 3

I did a 20-minute selection of scenes from the play 'Spring Awakening' in college, well before the musical came around, so when the musical was becoming a hot thing, and I was reading interviews with Duncan Sheik about how he came to do the music, I think it's interesting. Votes: 3

In my book, the Arab Awakening, I talk about the fact that we have to move from this. All the contemporary ideologies of political Islam have been based on the nation state. The nation state is very problematic but I'm not sure if we have an alternative political model. Votes: 3

I don't want to be daft and say I had some spiritual awakening or something, but I really did come of age in Los Angeles, where we recorded the album. I had my own little house and my own little circle and I really got to feel how the city ticks. Votes: 3

On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative patter. Design was recreation! ...The virtue of all this lay in the awakening of the childmind to rhythmic structure in Nature - giving the child a sense of innate cause-and-effect otherwise far beyond child-comprehension. Votes: 3

For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped. Votes: 1

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing. Votes: 1

Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation. Votes: 1

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. Votes: 1

It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is. Votes: 1

We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to reclaim our country, to defend liberty and to restore the Constitution. Votes: 1

The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip. Votes: 1

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it. Votes: 1

You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again. Votes: 1

We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us - a shared love of liberty, and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women. Votes: 1

Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team. Votes: 1

That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person. Votes: 1

Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up? Votes: 1

You can have a spiritual awakening and discover a new side of you at any age. And best of all, love can happen at any age. Life can just start to get exciting when you're in your 40s and 50s. You have to believe that. Votes: 1

The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural... The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness and becomes white. Votes: 1

Don't be tossed right and left from the waves of your life. No matter what is happening to you, be in the present moment. Focus on what you need to do today to reach your short and long term goals so you can have a better tomorrow. Votes: 1

Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed. Votes: 1

We live between the act of awakening and the act of surrender. Each morning, we awaken to the light and the invitation to a new day in the world of time; each night, we surrender to the dark to be taken to play in the world of dreams where time is no more. Votes: 1

When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the 'Ghost Rider' comic book in my little home in Long Beach, California, and I couldn't get my head around how something that scary could also be good. To me it was my first philosophical awakening - 'How is this possible, this duality?' Votes: 1

You know how a lot of people say, 'I lose myself in music,' or 'I like to escape,' but I want my music to be more of an awakening. I want it to make people to be aware of life; I don't want my music to be a distraction. I want to light a path. Votes: 1

I was born and grew up in Phoenix, and I left there when I was 17 to go to Interlochen Arts Academy - a boarding school in Michigan - for a year, and then I went to college for a year at The Boston Conservatory and landed the 'Spring Awakening' tour midway through my freshman year, which was pretty cool. Votes: 1

If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die, rather it manifests in the form of compassion. That is universal love. It is not just a sentiment. It cannot be manifested merely by a shift in mental disposition. It can only come from inner cleaning, an inner awakening. Votes: 1

What is needed, is an awakening. Votes: 0

Spring time is the land awakening. Votes: 0

One thought cannot awake without awakening others. Votes: 0

Great doubt will eventually lead to great awakening. Votes: 0

Complete health and awakening are really the same. Votes: 0

Life is a dream and death an awakening. Votes: 0

The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening Votes: 0

Even loss and betrayal can bring us awakening. Votes: 0

Nothing reminds us of an awakening more than rain. Votes: 0

True progress comes not through action, but through awakening. Votes: 0

The spirituality of the soul is awakening of spirit. Votes: 0

Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind. Votes: 0

We are near awakening when we dream that we dream. Votes: 0

Healing is awakening to the perfection that already is ours. Votes: 0

History is that nightmare from which there is no awakening. Votes: 0

The awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step for mankind. Votes: 0

The capacity for total wonder is the very substance of awakening. Votes: 0

Only by awakening can you know the true meaning of that word. Votes: 0

Your greatest awakening comes, when you are aware about your infinite nature. Votes: 0

The actual experience of awakening can only be in the present moment. Votes: 0

Spiritual awakening - is becoming awake to the aliveness of this moment. Votes: 0

The dream we are living has absolutely no purpose other than our awakening. Votes: 0

The secret of awakening is to unconditionally accept this moment as it is. Votes: 0

The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding. Votes: 0

The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare. Votes: 0

Delusion and the awakening - both can come and go slowly or suddenly. Votes: 0

This days one must be careful to avoid awakening the pain of another. Votes: 0

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening. Votes: 0

Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity. [98 - Zenith trans.] Votes: 0

Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder. Votes: 0

The Buddha's dharma didn't teach peace and relaxation; it taught awakening"”often rude awakening. Votes: 0

Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening. Votes: 0

It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself. Votes: 0

No great spiritual awakening has begun anywhere in the world apart from united prayer. Votes: 0

A teacher or teaching is not essential for spiritual awakening, but they save time. Votes: 0

I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening. Votes: 0

The awakening an artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others. Votes: 0

You can measure the depth of a person's awakening by how they serve others Votes: 0

Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care. Votes: 0

the universe is always delivering to us what we need for a spiritual awakening Votes: 0

We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening Votes: 0

The Universe is always delivering to us what we need for a spiritual awakening. Votes: 0

i'm glad to be alive in a world wherehis gently awakening eyesnourish the morning sun. Votes: 0

The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life. Votes: 0

The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening. Votes: 0

Everything that occurs in your life is an opportunity for awakening. There are no exceptions! Votes: 0

There's something in everybody that longs for that awakening to be more true to yourself. Votes: 0

Play touches and stimulates vitality, awakening the whole person - mind, body, intelligence and creativity. Votes: 0

It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence. Votes: 0

A global awakening can only happen from a spiritual awakening that is of global dimensions. Votes: 0

What we usually call human evolution is the awakening of the divine nature within us. Votes: 0

I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love. Votes: 0

You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening. Votes: 0

Vulnerability is a wonderful tool for awakening and for learning and for growing and for connecting. Votes: 0

I could never stop drugs, I could never stop drinking, until I received my spiritual awakening. Votes: 0

Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. Votes: 0

The shaman is a self-realized person. She discovers the ways of Spirit through her inner awakening. Votes: 0

Through radical generosity, we are awakening in people an in built divine consciousness of His goodness. Votes: 0

When I'm feeling confused by my awakening process, that usually means I'm on the right track. Votes: 0

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain. Votes: 0

I am the spirit of the morning sea, I am the awakening and the glad surprise. Votes: 0

Revolution is an awakening, so is the spring! Spring is an awakening, so is the revolution! Votes: 0

Trust me when I say: Your commitment to love is crucial in the awakening of the world. Votes: 0

The biggest awakening is the awakening from the childish deceptions and the invented tales of the religion. Votes: 0

You need to bring your awakening into city life. Bring it into fast-paced complexity where it thrives. Votes: 0

Right now we're in a special and powerful position, because the world is having a spiritual awakening. Votes: 0

I surround myself with authentic and loving people who share my journey of personal growth and awakening. Votes: 0

The Bosnian Genocide was something that triggered my consciousness and led to an awakening politically for me. Votes: 0

[The whole first year at university] was a great time for me and great time of awakening. Votes: 0

Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist... Votes: 0

At the dawn of the 19th century, the country was awakening to its enormous scope and variety. Votes: 0

At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully. Votes: 0

The most important thing about translucent people is that their life has been deeply transformed by an awakening. Votes: 0

The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change. Votes: 0

The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening. Votes: 0

'Tis always morning somewhere, and aboveThe awakening continents, from shore to shore,Somewhere the birds are singing evermore. Votes: 0

Fantasy is not the literature of subversion of the status quo but of 'awakening to' the status quo. Votes: 0

I look at tens of thousands of church leaders who still do need a bit of an awakening. Votes: 0

...my awakening life.I am awake in the present.The present is today.Today is a great gift. Votes: 0

Where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are. Votes: 0

This was work (music industry) but it was the awakening to what was to become a life's passion. Votes: 0

We are awakening from the dream of isolation, from the dream of loneliness, and it's a terrible shock. Votes: 0

The dream of democracy has long been enshrined in the hearts of the Egyptian people. It only needed awakening. Votes: 0

Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening. Votes: 0

The world is awakening to a powerful truth: Women and girls aren’t the problem; they’re the solution. Votes: 0

At last He is healed of his self-doubt. Now what is happening ? He is awakening To his souls ecstasy-sun. Votes: 0

True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams. Votes: 0

There's top 40 R&B/hip-hop, which is probably sexy but you wouldn't listen to it for a musical awakening. Votes: 0

There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer. Votes: 0

True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude. Votes: 0

The solution to the problem of the day is the awakening of the consciousness of humanity to the divinity within. Votes: 0

The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not. Votes: 0

Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is. Votes: 0

The whole idea of awakening is about regaining self-trust. Through self-trust we remember how to be our own best guides. Votes: 0

That love of the practice of ending suffering will probably be all of the awakening that you would ever desire. Votes: 0

How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream. Votes: 0

The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero. Votes: 0

Yoga is about awakening. Yoga is about creating a life that brings more beauty and more love into the world. Votes: 0

Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening. Votes: 0

I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops. Votes: 0

All of life is a trust fall, and I'm awakening to the thrill, rather than the fear, of being suspended midair. Votes: 0

The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person. Votes: 0

Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life. Votes: 0

I believe the people who are most successful are those committed to bringing out the best in other people through awakening & empowerment. Votes: 0

The journey of prayer is nothing more or less than a gradual awakening to the reality of recognizing what is already there. Votes: 0

The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life. Votes: 0

It is only by embracing the full spectrum of human consciousness that we can bring about a true awakening of the heart Votes: 0

True education is awakening a love for truth...opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life. Votes: 0

A great measure of a man is how he reacts to a midnight awakening when there's no fire or burglar in sight. Votes: 0

Try to strip me of my credibility and make me look fake, G you only gonna be in for a rude awakening. Votes: 0

Can you really see and hear Him, or is He still the Unknown God to you? It’s time for an awakening. Votes: 0

You don't want to move in with someone and find out that they don't have auto or health insurance. That's a rude awakening. Votes: 0

Motivation is awakening own mind and Inspiration is arising spirit in others to find their own with their heart and soul in all. Votes: 0

A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others. Votes: 0

Every libromancer had a first book. Etched more sharply into my memory than my first kiss, this book had been my magical awakening. Votes: 0

May all of our relationships be gateways to sharing in the highest love and sweetest joys, and to awakening to our full potential. Votes: 0

That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening Votes: 0

We may experience a realization of our true Self the first time we meditate, but most often the process of awakening is gradual. Votes: 0

By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds. Votes: 0

Personal and collective awakening are one and the same - when a raindrop joins the sea, the sea also merges with the raindrop. Votes: 0

Any time you have an individual who is very confident in their abilities to persuade, there can be a rude awakening under cross-examination. Votes: 0

Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding. Votes: 0

Built on the foundation of concentration is the third aspect of the Buddha's path of awakening: clarity of vision and the development of wisdom. Votes: 0

The discipline which I have imparted to you will lead you when I am gone. Practice mindfulness diligently, to attain the goal of awakening. Votes: 0

That higher awakening is called God-consciousness. In that condition, you will see that all the objects of the world are your own universal self. Votes: 0

Self awakening enables you to see the human scene as it is, not as it appears to be, which frees you of its chaos. Votes: 0

That's where the biggest shift has taken place. We have been propelled forward into our awakening because of the dimensional shifts on the planet. Votes: 0

The social potential movement is on the threshold of a mass awakening, seeking to carry into society what individuals have learned spiritually and personally. Votes: 0

Remember that that "rude awakening" which your parents and well-meaning relatives threatened you with as a kid is better than no awakening at all. Votes: 0

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. Votes: 0

A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness. Votes: 0

Upon awakening, let the words Thank You flow from your lips, for this will remind you to begin your day with gratitude and compassion. Votes: 0

Often suffering is the trigger, or a spiritual teaching, or both. Call it readiness, or grace. This is the beginning of the awakening process. Votes: 0

Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening. Votes: 0

The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw and knew I saw all things in God and God in all things. Votes: 0

We are awakening to that marvelous truth, that Christ is not in the heavens only, nor the atmosphere only, but Christ is in you. Votes: 0

Into the darkness with the light of the moon beaming upon me. Bathing in the luminosity of it awakening the demon that is me! Votes: 0

Where you find the attraction for lust and wealth considerably diminished, to whatever creed he may belong, know that his inner spirit is awakening. Votes: 0

To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown. Votes: 0

This is the Easter message, that awakening is possible, to the goodness of God, the sacredness of human life, the sisterhood and brotherhood of all. Votes: 0

After his great awakening, the Buddha continued to meditate and to devote himself to others; otherwise his vision would have receded into a pleasant memory. Votes: 0

I want to know what became of the changes we waited for love to bring/Were they only the fitful dreams of some greater awakening? Votes: 0

Such a caring for death, an awakening that keeps vigil over death, a conscience that looks death in the face, is another name for freedom. Votes: 0

Only just now awakening after years of materialism, our soul is still infected with the despair born of unbelief, of lack of purpose and aim. Votes: 0

The true test of maturity is not how old a person is but how he reacts to awakening in the mid-town area in his shorts. Votes: 0

The banyan tree does not mean awakening, nor does the hill, nor the saint, nor the European couple. The lotus is a symbol of regeneration. Votes: 0

The awakening is finally realizing that you are a part of God, like a single cell that finally sees it is a part of you. Votes: 0

My own awakening came in 1991 and my teacher then, in India, asked me to return to the West and to share this kind of inquiry. Votes: 0

That defining moment at my friend's house, when his uncle looks in my eye and reads me the word of God, I have an awakening. Votes: 0

I've been praying that we might have a spiritual awakening. But I think that becomes possible as individuals surrender their lives fresh and anew to Christ. Votes: 0

It was Adam Appleby's misfortune that at the moment of awakening from sleep his consciousness was immediately flooded with everything he least wanted to think about Votes: 0

The ground under the Bilva tree is very holy. Meditating here quickly brings about an awakening of the religious instinct. Shri Ramakrishna used to say so. Votes: 0

The only real service we can render to that which we perceive and interpret in phenomenal existence as 'others' is by awakening to universal consciousness ourselves. Votes: 0

History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later with a whimper. Votes: 0

That whole thing about immortality, eternal love and flying is dark and sexy. When you're going through your sexual awakening, it's all a part of that. Votes: 0

When we fall asleep, we withdraw our awareness from its hypnotic fascination with physical sensation, thereby enabling us to listen with our now awakening sixth sense. Votes: 0

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have. Votes: 0

Remember that this is not something we do just once or twice. Interrupting our destructive habits and awakening our heart is the work of a lifetime. Votes: 0

Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted. Votes: 0

A huge number of people are going through the process of awakening, some in the early stages, some in later stages, and it's wonderful to see. Votes: 0

The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories. Votes: 0

The uplift of the women, the awakening of the masses must come first, and then only can any real good come about for the country, for India. Votes: 0

A soulmate is the one person whose love is powerful enough to motivate you to meet your soul, to do the emotional work of self-discovery, of awakening. Votes: 0

When you are truly awakened, you have completely stopped trying to become awakened. You simply are. You know that you did not locate awakening; awakening located you. Votes: 0

When one speaks of awakening, it means de-hypnotizatio n; coming to your senses. But of course to do that, you have to go out of your mind. Votes: 0

Cordy slept late, awakening only when the noises of the house and the insistent sunlight became to obvious to be believably incorporated into her dreams any longer. Votes: 0

Our original nature is...void, omnipresent, silent, pure; it is glorious and mysterious peaceful joy - and that is all. Enter deeply into it by awakening yourself. Votes: 0

A non-religious person when awaken would make others sleep. Therefore his sleeping is good. A religious person when awaken will awaken others. Therefore his awakening is good. Votes: 0

A non-religious prison when awaken would make others sleep. Therefore his sleeping is good. A religious person when awaken will awaken others. Therefore his awakening is good. Votes: 0

This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown. Votes: 0

At the end of the spectrum when you get to that 12th step, when you have that spiritual awakening we make ourselves available to help other people. Votes: 0

My I love you was a measured response, like one gallon of coffee in one cup of sugar. It was just overflowing with an awakening of my soul. Votes: 0

If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear all at once. Votes: 0

What defines someone's music taste is their teens and early 20s. It's that combination of your sexual awakening and the music of the time, it fixes you forever. Votes: 0

The nonconformist here may be "beat down" by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind. Votes: 0

Though your acts of love and compassion cannot penetrate bandages or armour, they are never wasted and never lost. They sit within the recipient's mind, awaiting his awakening. Votes: 0

The enduring life is the one that begins once we awaken from this world. And it is in that awakening that we realize... It was only a dream Votes: 0

For most people, spiritual awakening is a gradual process. Rarely does it happen all at once. When it does, though, it is usually brought about by intense suffering. Votes: 0

When there is spiritual awakening, you awaken into the fullness, the aliveness, and also the sacredness of now. You were absent, asleep, and now you are present, awake. Votes: 0

True religion comes not front the teaching of men or the reading of books; it is the awakening of the spirit within us, consequent upon pure and heroic action. Votes: 0

The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber. Votes: 0

I am perceiving everyone, including myself, as an awakening being who is here to claim his or her birthright to the higher consciousness planes of unconditional love and oneness. Votes: 0

It is a commitment to respect whatever life brings that we develop wholehearted determination to use discomfort as an opportunity for awakening, rather than trying to make it disappear. Votes: 0

In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger. Votes: 0

Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dali. Votes: 0

I was influenced by my children's education in Quaker schools in the Philadelphia area. I experienced a spiritual awakening and became a Christian, was baptized, and joined a church. Votes: 0

What else does one obtain by realization of God? Does one grow two horns? No, the mind becomes pure, and through a pure mind one attains knowledge and awakening. Votes: 0

I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life. Votes: 0

Even amazing states of bliss, peace, clarity and spaciousness have nothing to do with awakening as these are just experiences coming and going in the impersonal awareness that you are. Votes: 0

Psychology, so dedicated to awakening human consciousness, needs to wake itself up to one of the most ancient human truths: we cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet. Votes: 0

The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep. Votes: 0

Upon retiring, sleep as if you had entered your last sleep. Upon awakening, leave your bed behind you instantly as if you had cast away a pair of old shoes. Votes: 0

Spiritual awakening is not ultimately the work of invisible cultural forces. Instead, it is the work of learning to see differently, of prayer, and of conversion. It is something people do. Votes: 0

The aim of my teaching is enlightenment, awakening from the dream state of separateness into the reality of the One. In short, my teaching is focused on realizing what you are. Votes: 0

The greatest and most blessed thing in the Germanic life is the mythical, sensitive, yet strong, awakening. The fact is that we have again begun to dream our own primal dreams. Votes: 0

I would say there have been different stages of my feminist awakening. The more layers you peel back and the more things you're made aware of, you're like, "Oh my God." Votes: 0

As surely as the Lord has inspired more missionaries to serve, He is also awakening the minds and opening the hearts of more good and honest people to receive His missionaries. Votes: 0

The translucent revolution is not only about more and more people having awakening, it's also about the way that awakening is embodied â€" and that's much more revolutionary, actually. Votes: 0

My mission is to tell the story of the birth of ourselves as a universal humanity, awakening all of us to our unique opportunity to participate through our own conscious evolution. Votes: 0

For many people, illness - loss of health - represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness of your own mortality, the greatest loss of all. Votes: 0

Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist. Votes: 0

Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man's life, and it is the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in all its tragic forms, a supreme motive for spiritual awakening? Votes: 0

The stopping of the Judicial courts, had been blended, in the minds of some people, with the redress of grievances considered only as a mode of awakening the attention of the legislature. Votes: 0

Great indeed is Fear; but it is not, as our military enthusiasts believe and try to make us believe, the only stimulus known for awakening the higher ranges of men's spiritual energy. Votes: 0

As you smell the fragrance of a flower by handing it or the smell of sandalwood by rubbing it against a stone, so you obtain spiritual awakening by constantly thinking of God. Votes: 0

They see that who they are is the silence in which sound is happening, the spaciousness in which movement occurs. This kind of recognition, whether fleeting or abiding, is called an awakening. Votes: 0

You meet all kinds of people that help put life in perspective and turn the horror into some kind of lesson or avenue of awakening that lives with you all your days. Votes: 0

I have all the support I need to simply relax and be with the transitional, in-process quality of my life. I have all I need to engage in the process of awakening. Votes: 0

Libya is a war of the womb. A product of the romantic minds of women Samantha Power, Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice who fantasize about an Arab awakening. It is estrogen-driven paternalism on steroids. Votes: 0

Wine lovers all speak of their First Time, a quasi-spiritual moment of awakening to wine's wonderment. After that, it's a life sentence. I've seen it happen to even the most confirmed beer sluggers. Votes: 0

When Holy God draws near in true revival, people come under terrible conviction of sin. The outstanding feature of spiritual awakening has been the profound consciousness of the Presence and holiness of God. Votes: 0

However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream. Votes: 0

Resisting a task is usually a sign that it's meaningful-which is why it's awakening your fears and stimulating procrastination. You could adopt "Do whatever you're resisting the most" as a philosophy of life. Votes: 0

Theoretically there is no absolute proof that one's awakening in the morning (the finding oneself again in the saddle of one's personality) is not really a quite unprecedented event, a perfectly original birth. Votes: 0

Love is a magic ray emitted from the burning core of the soul and illuminating the surrounding earth. It enables us to perceive life as a beautiful dream between one awakening and another. Votes: 0

No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream. Votes: 0

When I found yoga, I realized that I can direct my own mind through my yoga practice and meditation. I can actually create my own mood. That was a huge awakening for me. Votes: 0

The Pleiadians are saying it is going to happen in a mass setting. Within probably the next year and a half, many people are just going to have an instant awakening, a remembering. Votes: 0

Look deep into your throbbing life and you will find the quality of the divine. You will not find a God but you will find a godliness, a truth, an awakening, a buddha. Votes: 0

The future looks like gasoline. . . . crude oil . . . is the future before it has been refined. It is like a dream of the future, really, and like any dream it ends with a rude awakening. Votes: 0

This book out-lives, out-loves, out-fits, out-lasts, out-reaches, out-runs, and out-ranks all books. This book is faith producing. It is hope awakening. It is death destroying, and those who embrace it find forgiveness of sin. Votes: 0

As we gradually learn to harness the optimal computing capacity of matter, our intelligence will spread through the universe at (or exceeding) the speed of light, eventually leading to a sublime, universe wide awakening. Votes: 0

Of course the case of the Christian Church planted among the nations must differ, in various ways, from that of any sect forming in connection with religious awakening in a territory of professing Christianity. Votes: 0

I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world, which, beautiful though it may be, is still a land of captivity. Votes: 0

Ah, if I could realize, if I could forget myself and devote my meditations to the freeing, the awakening and the blessedness of all living creatures everywhere I'd realize what there is, is ecstasy. Votes: 0

People tell me, "I'm glad you said that." But this is not a spectator sport. This is an activity that requires daily moral awakening as well as a commitment that leads to real change. Votes: 0

Be kind to yourself as you proceed along this journey. This kindness, in itself, is a means of awakening the spark of love within you and helping others to discover that spark within themselves. Votes: 0

The soul is an embryo in the body of Man, and the day of death is the Day of awakening, for it is the Great era of labour and the rich Hour of creation. Votes: 0

Evolution usually occurs in response to a crisis situation, and we now are faced with such a crisis situation. This is why there is indeed an enormous acceleration in the awakening process of our species. Votes: 0

Celtic spirituality is awakening so powerfully now because it illuminates the fact that the visible is only one little edge of things. The visible is only the shoreline of the magnificent ocean of the invisible. Votes: 0

The dance goes from realizing that you're separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are. Votes: 0

You are the light of the world. You are the consciousness that illuminates the world. Know yourself as that, and that's freedom, liberation, awakening, the end of suffering and madness. And it's happening right here. Votes: 0

It appears that America's anti-Biblical feminist movement is at last dying, thank God, and is possibly being replaced by a Christ-centered men's movement which may become the foundation for a desperately needed national spiritual awakening. Votes: 0

By means of Invocation, the being awakens, and awakening becomes fullness. By means of balancing, fullness becomes internal wholeness. By virtue of exteriorized attention, internal wholeness becomes Communion. By virtue of self-forgetfulness, Communion becomes Union. Votes: 0