The Awakening Quotes

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

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

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.

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.'

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant.

History is that nightmare from which there is no awakening.

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.

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

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.

When we awaken, we cannot account for the time spent. We simply don't remember. About the only evidence we have of experiences while we were asleep is when we happen to remember a dream.

Mere isolation in an enclosing idea is not a release from conflict.

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.

There's a book called The Women's Room by Marilyn French that was a really big part of my personal feminist awakening growing up that I read.

The only way out is in.

You will reach a point where you can finally go for an hour, or a day, or a week without painful reminders of absence and emptiness. Look for new awakenings. Be open to rebirth.

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

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.

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.

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.

Life is a dream and death an awakening.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Do not seek the answers. Let the answers find you.

If you fully awaken, you will not know yourself. Understand this, and you will understand all.

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

You are the artist and the art.

I am the perpetrator of my suffering - but only all of it.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

In this world of plenty, a tiny baby, who does not yet understand the mystery of the world, is allowed to cry and cry and finally fall asleep without the milk she needs to survive.

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.

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.

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.

If the president Donald Trump thinks he can fire Deputy Attorney General Ron Rosenstein and replace him with someone who will shut down the investigation, he's in for a rude awakening.