Top 100 Quotes About Awakening
#1. Awakening into the God state makes all the perceptual limitations of the mind disappear, just like a bucket of muddy water turns crystal-clear once poured into the ocean.
Abhijit Naskar
#2. A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.
Sir Fulke Greville
#3. We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
Zhuangzi
#4. Carson's writing initiated a transformation in the relationship between humans and the natural world and stirred an awakening of public environmental consciousness. It
Rachel Carson
#5. In working with the wounded at Gallipoli, the lead character comments, Perhaps life was the nightmare and death the awakening.
Anne Perry
#6. Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist ...
Ernest Gellner
#7. Spiritual awakening is the difficult process whereby the increasing realisation that everything is as wrong as it can be flips suddenly into the realisation that everything is as right is it can be. Or better, everything is as It as it can be.
Alan Watts
#8. 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.
Wassily Kandinsky
#9. 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.
William James
#10. Teo had once claimed that human history began with a storm: the interval between lightning and thunder, between flash and rumble felt in the body's core, was primitive man's first experiences of time
the awakening of consciousness, the birth of the gods.
Max Gladstone
#11. 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.
Karl Radek
#12. What we usually call human evolution is the awakening of the divine nature within us.
Peace Pilgrim
#13. Turmoil is a call for awakening. Every challenge, great or small, is moving you to look deeper and draw forth the highest in you. You're never given a challenge beyond your ability to meet and master. You'll rise above every circumstance because you're greater than any circumstance.
Alan Cohen
#14. 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.
Henry Reed
#15. 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
David Lodge
#16. Watching that great ship fly up, and up, and up against the night was an awakening, a vivid flash of something like God, something more powerful than nature itself. And it is us. And we know. We who have seen.
Charles Pellegrino
#17. Observing what is around us and registering errant impressions is a state not so much of passive inaction as of alert receptivity. Allowing ourselves to notice, to be open to our surroundings, is a way of awakening our curiosity in the world outside ourselves. The
Eva Hoffman
#18. The intellectual process must be stirred. A feeling for knowledge for its own sake must be engendered. Learning will then be an exciting adventure which few can escape, nor will many wish to. And it will bring the spirit to a great awakening which can likely last a lifetime.
Julius Sumner Miller
#19. 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.
Lyman Abbott
#20. Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world.
Tommy Chong
#21. I worked consistently on Broadway from when I was 8 years old through 'Spring Awakening,' which I left in 2008.
Lea Michele
#22. We are not the only ones affected by our recovery. The spiritual awakening heals the world one person at a time.
Marta Mrotek
#23. May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#24. 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.
Lea Michele
#25. It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
Adrienne Rich
#26. The first light on the roof outside; very early morning. The leaves on all the trees tremble with a soft awakening to any breeze the dawn may offer.
Ray Bradbury
#27. I declare that for me it is in vocalisation, in the use of mantras and prayer, through the awakening of the sexual secretions, resides the only way to reach the goal and everything else that is not here, is unfortunately lost time.
Arnold Krumm-Heller
#28. We are all equally capable of spiritual awakening. It may not seem that way, at times. Some of us are so caught up in the drama of our day-to-day existence that we have lost track of who we really are. But eventually, all of us will make the discovery of our true nature.
Victor Shamas
#29. Without collective awakening the catastrophe will come. I think people in the mass media, journalists, film makers and others, you can contribute to the collective awakening if you are awake and then your life will embody that awakening.
Nhat Hanh
#30. A man who's discontents were barely known to himself, awakening in middle age to the horror of self-reflection.
Philip Roth
#31. Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.
Meher Baba
#32. When you recognise that there is a voice in your head that pretends to be you and never stops speaking, you are awakening out of your unconscious identification with the stream of thinking.
Eckhart Tolle
#33. Begin your day, upon awakening, with prayers of gratitude, requests and affirmations that they are being answered - always ending with more gratitude.
Susan Barbara Apollon
#35. I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.
Odilon Redon
#36. 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.
L.J. Vanier
#37. Right now we're in a special and powerful position, because the world is having a spiritual awakening.
Gabrielle Bernstein
#38. All of life is a trust fall, and I'm awakening to the thrill, rather than the fear, of being suspended midair.
Leigh Ann Henion
#39. 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.
Billy Graham
#40. Through reflection, awakening, and choice we are able to exist as our true selves. However, this is not the end. In order for us to realize and put into practice the life purpose we have chosen, endless choices await us.
Ilchi Lee
#41. This stray little thought released in him some echo of the past, a solitary trembling note whose sound rose higher and higher in his chest, awakening inarticulate longings and, inseparable from them, a piercing, unfamiliar sorrow.
Olga Grushin
#42. The dream of democracy has long been enshrined in the hearts of the Egyptian people. It only needed awakening.
Mohamed ElBaradei
#43. The fact that my sexual awakening peripherally involves Steve Guttenberg I have gradually accepted.
Gary Shteyngart
#44. It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.
H.G.Wells
#45. Upon awakening, let the words Thank You flow from your lips, for this will remind you to begin your day with gratitude and compassion.
Wayne Dyer
#46. It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.
Dejan Stojanovic
#47. Being in Los Angeles is this brutal awakening, where I feel not good enough as soon as I walk into a room, and I'm wearing the wrong thing, or I don't have enough make up on. It's all about image.
Mary Lambert
#48. There is also an awakening to beauty, because when you're really young you don't have that concept or opinion in place, so you make your own discoveries. It's different now with technology, and the constant bombardment of images.
Elle Fanning
#49. I have found essences to be among the most valuable tools that I have utilized for awakening and allowing transformation.
Marcey Shapiro
#50. 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.
Anne Lamott
#51. It's such an amazing awakening to realize that nothing in this universe happens TO YOU, 100% happens FOR YOU.
Steve Maraboli
#52. 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.
Victor Hugo
#53. It is the time to tremendous awakening toward "inquisitiveness" with cross-cultural sharing through technology and inner insights.
Pearl Zhu
#54. 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.
Eckhart Tolle
#55. The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best that is in us. It is only through our own personal awakening that the world can be awakened. We cannot give what we do not have.
Marianne Williamson
#56. Meditate?" I took my head out from under the pillow, shook dark hair back from my face, and rolled over on my side to look at him. "Excuse me, but the closest I ever got to having a spiritual awakening was dating a yoga instructor. Once.
Rachel Caine
#57. 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.
Bryan Adams
#59. Life breathed spring (haiku)
spring awakening
dance of lovers
delicately wrapped in cherry blossoms
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#60. Although churches seem the most natural space to perform spiritual awakening, the disconcerting reality is that many people in Western society see churches more as museums of religion than sacred stages that dramatize the movement of God's spirit.
Diana Butler Bass
#61. Trust me when I say: Your commitment to love is crucial in the awakening of the world.
Gabrielle Bernstein
#62. 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.
Bill Bradley
#63. I just stopped talking.1+1 could have been 2.' '1+1 is always 2.' The beautiful in you is an awakening; a very personal awakening.
Neha Sharma Jha
#64. 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.
Daisaku Ikeda
#65. 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.
George Richards Minot
#66. I keep hearing about a spiritual awakening, but I feel what we need instead is a human one. It would be wonderful and empowering to become free from the disillusionment and nonsense being sold to us from gurus for centuries.
Steve Maraboli
#67. I slept and the night rolled over into day like a dog. Another post-meridian awakening - sunshine on empty bottles, tangled clothes. I dozed while the temperature rose.
Matthew Stokoe
#68. How sharper than a serpent's tooth is an awakening without tea!
Kyril Bonfiglioli
#70. We must lead all beings to the shore of awakening, but, after these beings have become liberated, we do not, in truth, think that a single being has been liberated.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#71. A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.
Vernon Howard
#72. A superstitious belief which embraces an error keeps the possibility open that the truth may come to arouse it; but when the truth is there, and the superstitious mode of apprehending it transforms it into a lie, no saving awakening is possible.
Soren Kierkegaard
#74. We need to understand, to really grasp at an elemental level, that the definitive revolution is the spiritual awakening of humankind.
Rory McEntee
#75. The world is awakening and it's not waiting for anyone. You either awaken with it or be left consumed by old concepts and ideas. Do you thrust yourself into the unknown or stay covered in dust that has been hanging around for ages?
Bephyer Parey
#76. Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.
Imre Kertesz
#77. You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening.
Frank Herbert
#78. All great men and women had experienced times of wilderness,these moments precedes the dawn of self awakening, greatest potential and success.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#79. Eventually, it begins to seem as if you are repeatedly awakening from a dream to find yourself safely in bed. No matter how terrible the dream, the relief is instantaneous.
Sam Harris
#80. They can admit the new world exists, dangerous and irresistible. Cosy is not what awakening youth wants. Safety is not what it wants. The material world is not what it wants either.
Kathleen Winter
#82. I like that 'Pitch Perfect' is one of my first forays into film and just being seen in that kind of light, aside from some people who know me from 'Spring Awakening' or the other things that I've done. I think in so many ways it's kind of like my own 'Glee' or 'Smash'.
Skylar Astin
#83. 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?
Anna Deavere Smith
#84. True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.
Gaston Bachelard
#85. Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening.
Hakuin Ekaku
#86. The purpose of the world is for youto be lost in it, ultimately. The purpose of the world is for you to suffer, to create the suffering that seems to be what is needed for the awakening to happen.
Eckhart Tolle
#87. 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.
Alan Watts
#88. At first, He shook us very tenderly but now His shaking has become violent, because He has not succeeded in awakening us ... God is going to shake everything in sight so that He is revealed as the only unshakable power!
David Wilkerson
#89. True progress comes not through action, but through awakening.
Alan Cohen
#90. The first stage of the awakening journey is the calling. The calling arrives when we first feel that spiritual impulse that galvanizes our attention. All of a sudden we sense a greater mystery to life that we seek to experience more deeply; it literally calls us.
Adyashanti
#91. Where you find the attraction for lust and wealth considerably diminished, to whatever creed he may belong, know that his inner spirit is awakening.
Swami Vivekananda
#92. 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.
Jacques Derrida
#93. True awakening involves embracing every aspect of yourself with love and acceptance, including everything you have been denying, hiding or trying to fix. To deny these things is a judgment of them and judgment will keep you forever imprisoned within separation.
Leonard Jacobson
#94. 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.
Allison Tolman
#95. That song didn't just happen. It grew out of my experiences. 'American Pie' was part of my process of self-awakening: a mystical trip into my past.
Don McLean
#96. I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.
Vera Farmiga
#97. Abby, I don't know who you are, but I do know that you're a remarkable woman. Come what may, I would love to meet you and thank you personally for awakening me from my stupor.
Jeff Joseph
#98. 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.
Ruby Dee
#99. 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.
Sarada Devi
#100. 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.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
