The Awakening Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

The gift of willingness is the only thing that stands between the quiet desperation of a disingenuous life and the actualization of unexpressed potential.

Being discontented, we either seek a different job or merely succumb to environment...instead of causing us to question life, the whole process of existence.

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

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

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.

The Arab awakening was like watching elephants fly: something you didn't expect, something you haven't seen before, "Wow, elephants fly."

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.

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.

Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.

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.

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.

Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had.

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

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

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.

Conscious awareness is the source of our healing...Only when you say the truth can the truth set you free. This is not a negative process, but at times it is a difficult process.

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.

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

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.

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.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is.

The U.S. needs a strong techno brand like Awakenings, just pretty much pure techno.

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

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

Complete health and awakening are really the same.

A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her,—the light which, showing the way, forbids it.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Celtic Tiger portrays the oppression of a people and the tiger symbolises the awakening of their Spirit and their struggle for freedom.

For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped.

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

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.

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.]

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

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.

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.

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.

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