Awakening famous quotes
04-24-2025
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Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
-- A. E. van Vogt -
The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
-- A. N. Wilson -
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
-- Abraham Maslow -
The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.
-- Adyashanti -
My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.
-- Adyashanti -
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.
-- Adyashanti -
Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.
-- Alan Watts -
The shaman is a self-realized person. She discovers the ways of Spirit through her inner awakening.
-- Alberto Villoldo -
Today a new faith is awakening — the Myth of the blood; the belief that to defend the blood is also to defend the divine nature of man in general. It is a belief, effulgent with the brightest knowledge, that Nordic blood represents that Mysterium which has overcome and replaced the older sacraments.
-- Alfred Rosenberg -
Your greatest awakening comes, when you are aware about your infinite nature.
-- Amit Ray -
Where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are.
-- Anne Lamott -
It is only by embracing the full spectrum of human consciousness that we can bring about a true awakening of the heart
-- Anodea Judith -
Human consciousness is now being drawn inexorably toward the same issues, the gaze of collective attention focused like never before.
-- Anodea Judith -
Healing is awakening to the perfection that already is ours.
-- Baird T. Spalding -
The social potential movement is on the threshold of a mass awakening, seeking to carry into society what individuals have learned spiritually and personally.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard -
The more something upsets you, the more it is meant for you. When it no longer upsets you, it is no longer needed because the lesson is complete.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
Don't change just so people will like you! Like yourself and your relationships will change. There are people who will love you for - YOU.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
Any time you have an individual who is very confident in their abilities to persuade, there can be a rude awakening under cross-examination.
-- Catherine Crier -
I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
-- Charles Bukowski -
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.
-- Christy Turlington -
This was work (music industry) but it was the awakening to what was to become a life's passion.
-- Clive Davis -
Personal and collective awakening are one and the same - when a raindrop joins the sea, the sea also merges with the raindrop.
-- Dan Millman -
The capacity for total wonder is the very substance of awakening.
-- Daniel Odier -
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.
-- David Bowie -
If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?
-- David Hilbert -
At the dawn of the 19th century, the country was awakening to its enormous scope and variety.
-- David Lavender -
Awakenings are always terrifying as they force you to realize your past has been lived in confinement, the most disturbing part is when you recognize that the shackle holding you down are largely once you have placed upon yourself, the prison is self constructed
-- Dean Karnazes -
The whole world opens when we accept this moment, this very moment.
-- Deepak Chopra -
It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.
-- Dejan Stojanovic -
Nothing reminds us of an awakening more than rain.
-- Dejan Stojanovic -
That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening
-- Dogen -
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 -
To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
The awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step for mankind.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
Only by awakening can you know the true meaning of that word.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
There's something in everybody that longs for that awakening to be more true to yourself.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
When you recognize 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. When you notice that voice, you realize that who you are is not the voice - the thinker - but the one who is aware of it.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist...
-- Ernest Gellner -
You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening.
-- Frank Herbert -
Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.
-- G. I. Gurdjieff -
If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
-- Gail Sheehy -
Buddha nature is not something that we possess, nor is it something we can be. It is the nature of things, just as they are. To realize our buddha nature, to live in accord with this awakening, is the truth that alleviates suffering in the world.
-- Geoffrey Shugen Arnold -
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 Minot -
The chaos of the mind cannot constitute a reply to the providence of the universe. All it can be is an awakening in the night, where all that can be heard is anguished poetry let loose.
-- Georges Bataille -
At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.
-- Hakuin Ekaku -
Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening.
-- Hakuin Ekaku -
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 -
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.
-- Ilana Mercer -
This days one must be careful to avoid awakening the pain of another.
-- Ishmael Beah -
Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
-- Jack Kemp -
The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding.
-- Jack Kornfield -
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?
-- Jackson Browne -
What is [the role of money] in the search for meaning? Is our relationship to it one of the chief factors that keeps us in our prison, or could it also be a tool for breaking out, for awakening to a life filled with intensity of purpose?
-- Jacob Needleman -
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.
-- Jacques Maritain -
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.
-- James Hillman -
The Buddha’s dharma didn’t teach peace and relaxation; it taught awakening—often rude awakening.
-- Jay Michaelson -
Pause and remember - Making the wrong assumptions causes pain and suffering for everyone.
-- Jennifer Young -
Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict.
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti -
Freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness.
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti -
To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti -
Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti -
Mere isolation in an enclosing idea is not a release from conflict.
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti -
Most people like to live in illusions.
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti -
The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is.
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti -
Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have?
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti -
Action isn't a burden to be hoisted up and lugged around on our shoulders. It is something we are. The work we have to do can be seen as a kind of coming alive. More than some moral imperative, it's an awakening to our true nature, a releasing of our gifts.
-- Joanna Macy -
The more clean you are in awakening to your own being, the more you'll be able to move your own being toward others. Your evolution as awareness is in the purity of thatit's in the cleanness.
-- John de Ruiter -
We are awakening to that marvelous truth, that Christ is not in the heavens only, nor the atmosphere only, but Christ is in you.
-- John G. Lake -
Recent action in Syria and Palestine also tell us that the awakening voices of democracy in those regions are occurring, and that those in that region are able to pursue it without being stifled by terrorists that are despotic.
-- Judd Gregg -
Can you really see and hear Him, or is He still the Unknown God to you? It’s time for an awakening.
-- Karen Wheaton -
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 -
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.
-- Ken Livingstone -
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 -
You can measure the depth of a person's awakening by how they serve others
-- Kukai -
I've known since day one of working on 'Spring Awakening' - back in 1999 - that it was special.
-- Lea Michele -
When I was on Broadway, my most recent Broadway show was 'Spring Awakening,' and every night I did a topless scene.
-- Lea Michele -
You cannot be present in an abstract way. Presence is not about disappearing into nothingness. You can only be present with something that is actually here.
-- Leonard Jacobson -
Everything that occurs in your life is an opportunity for awakening. There are no exceptions!
-- Leonard Jacobson -
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.
-- Leonard Jacobson -
Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.
-- Maria Montessori -
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.
-- Marianne Williamson -
The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw and knew I saw all things in God and God in all things.
-- Mechthild of Magdeburg -
Those who seek liberation for themselves alone cannot become fully enlightened. Though it may be said that one who is not already liberated cannot liberate others, the very process of forgetting oneself to help others is in itself liberating
-- Muso Soseki -
The world is in the condition that it's in because the world is full of sleepwalkers.
-- Neale Donald Walsch -
First, we become aware of that which is Divine around us. Then we become aware of that which is Divine within us. Finally, we become aware that all is Divine, and that there is nothing else. This is the moment of our awakening.
-- Neale Donald Walsch -
It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself.
-- Nicole Krauss -
I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.
-- Odilon Redon -
When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.
-- P.D. Ouspensky -
People live in sleep, do everything in sleep, and do not know they are asleep.
-- P.D. Ouspensky -
For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped.
-- Patty Hearst -
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.
-- Pedro Calderon de la Barca -
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.
-- Pema Chodron -
The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person.
-- Plato -
Great doubt will eventually lead to great awakening.
-- Rabia Basri -
How much longer will you go on letting your energy sleep? How much longer are you going to stay oblivious of the immensity of yourself?
-- Rajneesh -
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.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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.
-- Ram Dass -
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.
-- Ray Kurzweil
