Top 100 Quotes About Awakening
#1. Attachment is conditional, offers love only to certain people in certain ways; it is exclusive. Love, in the sense of metta, used by Buddha, is a universal, nondiscriminating feeling of caring and connectedness.
Jack Kornfield
#2. For each of us, there comes a time when we must awaken and become what we were born to become.
Seth Adam Smith
#3. The basic dynamics of conversion are summed up for me in the words LEAVE-ARRIVE, END-BEGIN, SHED-EMERGE. These are the tensions of conversion and spiritual awakening.
Sue Monk Kidd
#4. Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth.
Adyashanti
#5. To distract myself from thoughts of my father, i decided to check out the dead body.
Kelley Armstrong
#6. Like the curved pipe of a fountain, your arching boughs
drive the sap
downward and up again: and almost without awakening
it bursts out of sleep, into its sweetest achievement.
Like the god stepping into the swan.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#7. Awakening Call: You're Not in love if it carries a burden.
Brook Tesla
#8. The offering up or cleaning up ego stuff is called purification. Purification is the act of letting go. This is done out of discriminative awareness. That is, you understand that you are an entity passing through a life in which the entire drama is an offering for your awakening.
Ram Dass
#9. Those who are actively seeking enlightenment will not find it because the act of looking for it is the distraction from it.
Enza Vita
#10. Perspective seasons meaning with sprinkles of time.
Soul Dancer
#11. It could be a meeting on the street, or a party or a lecture, or just a simple, banal introduction, then suddenly there is a flash of recognition and the embers of kinship glow. There is an awakening between you, a sense of ancient knowing.
John O'Donohue
#12. True healing is not physical - it is a spiritual awakening to our True Self. If art is used for that purpose then it can be quite healing as it purifies the mind of thoughts that create disease.
Judith Cornell
#13. You will bring yourself the suffering you need to bring yourself so that you may awaken.
T. Scott McLeod
#14. Being vegetarian here also means that we do not consume dairy and egg products, because they are products of the meat industry. If we stop consuming, they will stop producing. Only collective awakening can create enough determination for action.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#15. Yoga is about awakening. Yoga is about creating a life that brings more beauty and more love into the world.
John Friend
#16. Castles in the air bow gracefully; Well protected - A little dreaming in pink glasses - Behind every joyful morning is a magical awakening.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#17. Through radical generosity, we are awakening in people an in built divine consciousness of His goodness.
Bill Johnson
#18. I personally believe in some sort of divine order - or energy. I do believe that everything happens for a reason. I do think that when something bad happens to someone it's with the purpose of awakening them. I do think there is some force behind that. I don't think there are accidents.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#19. Mrs. Pontellier gave over being astonished, and concluded that wonders would never cease.
Kate Chopin
#20. Happiness will be fleeting if you constantly search for it in places that can be taken away. It's an inside job.
Nikki Rowe
#21. From human problems come human solutions, which in turn spawn inspiration, creativity, insight and enlightenment. Without life's problems, life would become stagnant, dull and boring.
Beth Johnson
#22. Humanity as a whole has already gone through unimaginable suffering, mostly self-inflicted, the culmination of which was the 20th century with its unspeakable horrors. This collective suffering has brought upon a readiness in many human beings for the evolutionary leap that is spiritual awakening.
Eckhart Tolle
#23. The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.
Adyashanti
#24. 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.
Huston Smith
#25. The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life.
Swami Vivekananda
#26. Look at us, said the violets blooming at her feet, all last winter we slept in the seeming death but at the right time God awakened us, and here we are to comfort you.
E.P. Roe
#27. For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state,
Joseph Campbell
#28. It does not matter how far we have gone in the wrong direction, it does not matter how many golden opportunities we have allowed to slip by us; what counts now is that we have woken up from our deep slumber and with this awakening comes our next line of action.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#29. As a population, if a large number of people make even small moves to eat less meat and more plant-based foods, the livestock industry will shrink. Over time, farmers will find other crops to support their livelihoods. Through such collective awakening we can make a difference in our world.
Nhat Hanh
#30. True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#31. 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.
Salvador Dali
#32. Try to strip me of my credibility and make me look fake, G you only gonna be in for a rude awakening.
Eminem
#33. Sometimes I feel this summer as if I were walking through the green meadow again, idly, aimlessly, unthinking and unguided.
Kate Chopin
#34. Sometimes people do go wrong. There is no judgment needed. Wrong will take a short time or a long time to make the individual aware that something is wrong, and that is the beginning of that person's awakening.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#35. Dante 19 had it wrong. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here leads to awakening, not to the realms of hell.
Ken McLeod
#36. I started off in musical theater, yeah. It was one of my first jobs; it was in Spring Awakening in London, which was amazing.
Jamie Blackley
#37. Whoever does decide to awaken should put their whole effort, attention, and life into it, in order to make it succeed.
Belsebuub
#38. Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
#39. How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream.
Kahlil Gibran
#40. We are only able to get into the possession of Wisdom and get closer to Truth when and if we realize that all the knowledge and experience concentrated in the mind only hamper us in our awakening to Truth.
Frank M. Wanderer
#41. After years on a drunken bender, Americans are awakening to lies masked in patriotism and glory.
Chris Hedges
#42. 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.
Paracelsus
#43. The Talmud states, "Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly now, love mercy now, walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
Bridges McCall
#44. Great doubt: great awakening. Little doubt: little awakening. No doubt: no awakening. - Zen mantra
Barry L. Duncan
#45. I know of nothing more significant than the awakening of men and women throughout our country to the desire to improve their houses. Call it what you will - awakening, development, American Renaissance - it is a most startling and promising condition of affairs.
Elsie De Wolfe
#46. The biggest awakening is the awakening from the childish deceptions and the invented tales of the religion.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#47. Religion that does not inspire
outward compassion and inward awakening
is not religion.
Ivan M. Granger
#48. Under Arab rule, Palestine had always been a somnolent desert land that could have sustained no authentic twentieth-century Arab awakening. Palestine without Jews is a not a nation but a naqba.
George Gilder
#49. The older I got the more I appreciated the role of travel as a stimulus to memories, and the way in which journeys even to new places were somehow always awakening memories of places seen in an ever-receding past.
Michael Jacobs
#50. The crises of modern man are to a large extent religious ones, insofar as they are an awakening of his awareness to an absence of meaning.
Mircea Eliade
#51. 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.
Krishnananda Saraswati
#52. It requires a public awakening, establishment of political will, resetting of priorities, sacrifice for the future, and an alliance of governments, businesses, and citizens.
Thomas L. Friedman
#53. May all of our relationships be gateways to sharing in the highest love and sweetest joys, and to awakening to our full potential.
John Friend
#54. In the course of our Journey we need to realize that we do not need to become anything, because we are already in possession of the characteristics that we have been looking for so far, pursuing an image projected into the future.
Frank M. Wanderer
#55. 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'.
Nancy Pearcey
#56. Only by awakening can you know the true meaning of that word.
Eckhart Tolle
#57. 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.
Adyashanti
#58. 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.
Soyen Shaku
#59. For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped.
Patty Hearst
#60. Learn to be assertive without anger attached to it.
Nikki Rowe
#61. Never be afraid of the PROCESS that will take you to the PROMISE
Joe Joe Dawson
#63. The most important thing about translucent people is that their life has been deeply transformed by an awakening.
Arjuna Ardagh
#64. 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.
Neil L. Andersen
#65. When we set our hearts on knowing the truth, we assist one another in the long tender work of awakening. When the story is right, and the people we love are waiting to listen, we tell each other how to live.
Mark Matousek
#66. A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.
Jessamyn West
#67. Everything will be okay as soon as you are okay with everything. And that is the only time everything will be okay.
Michael Singer
#68. We sleep to dream and awake elsewhere. So are we always asleep or constantly awake?
Raneem Kayyali
#69. It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself.
Nicole Krauss
#70. Horror is the awakening of repressed knowledge, something that you have known all along but kept at the periphery of awareness so that life can go on.
Matthew De Abaitua
#71. 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.
Elizabeth Berg
#72. The plants and animals all around us were waking from a long sleep, and our yard was slowly transformed into a carpet of soft green, and the skies above our house were filled with choruses of birdsong once again.
Arlene Stafford-Wilson
#73. Awakening others is an impossible endeavor until I myself am awakened.
Pooja Ruprell
#74. 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.
Albert Schweitzer
#75. The man was goggling. His entire map was suffused with a rich blush. He looked like the Soul's Awakening done in pink.
P.G. Wodehouse
#76. 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.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#77. To live a life without awakening is to leave it as it was begun.
Belsebuub
#79. Mindfulness removes the emotional fogs of negative thoughts with the light of awareness.
Amit Ray
#80. After another long silence, bit by bit, realisation dawned upon Edmund and he became even paler than Hecate herself which was, in itself, a fantastic achievement. Adele Rose, Awakening.
Adele Rose
#81. 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.
MC Yogi
#82. We look for our perfect partners, and we wish we can be accepted the way we are. We seek unconditional love. It is all beautiful. While doing it we can always remember that we need to accept ourselves unconditionally, as much as we wish others to accept as with no conditions.
Raphael Zernoff
#83. 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.
Eckhart Tolle
#84. Awakening is not something you achieve. It is something you relax into.
Leonard Jacobson
#85. The Tantric sages tell us that our in-breath and out-breath actually mirror the divine creative gesture. With the inhalation, we draw into our own center, our own being. With the exhalation, we expand outward into the world.
Sally Kempton
#86. The introvert is pressured daily, almost from the moment of awakening, to respond and conform to the outer world.
Marti Olsen Laney
#87. Great doubt will eventually lead to great awakening.
Rabia Basri
#88. We must master many subjects in order to implement our dreams. Our personal journey begins by gathering appropriate learning experiences and awakening our minds to observe, evaluate, and recall what we experience.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#89. One cannot proclaim words of love if the heart has yet to be awoken.
Raneem Kayyali
#90. You learn who you are by unlearning who they taught you to be.
Nikki Rowe
#91. Delving deeply in this [gender healing] work inevitably takes people on an inner journey, and, if they follow it far enough, they are ultimately let into an awakening of an expansive, all-encompassing love.
William Keepin
#92. the enormity of loss couldnt be born without the promise of something greater
Melissa A. Craven
#93. It was too late. Maybe yesterday, while I was still a child, but not now. I knew too much, had seen too much, I was a child no longer now; innocence and childhood were forever lost, forever gone from me.
William Faulkner
#94. I believe the people who are most successful are those committed to bringing out the best in other people through awakening & empowerment.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#95. When you succeed in awakening the Kundalini, so that it starts to move out of its mere potentiality, you necessarily start a world which is totally different from our world. It is the world of eternity.
C. G. Jung
#96. With the awakening of his emotions, his first perception was a sense of futility, a dull ache at the utter grayness of his life.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#97. There is a rose in every heart. Enlightenment is recognizing that rose.
Amit Ray
#98. Africa is awakening. It's a huge market of almost a billion people with huge resources and a young population. People spend when they're young.
Christoffel Wiese
#99. He remained, weeks after awakening, in that period of early-morning consciousness that allows easy re-entry to dreaming. His limbs still tingled with the residue of sleep, and most days he wanted badly to allow it to overtake him again.
Dave Eggers
#100. 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.
Oliver Burkeman
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