Awakening Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Hands, Ghost, Demon

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• Our heart knows what our mind has forgotten - it knows the sacred that is within all that exists, and through a depth of feeling we can once again experience this connection, this belonging.

  Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Heart

  "Loneliness and the Sacred Web of Life" by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 11, 2014.

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• 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

  Spiritual, Powerful, Real

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• There's something in everybody that longs for that awakening to be more true to yourself.

  Eckhart Tolle

  True To Yourself

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• They see that who they are is the silence in which sound is happening, the spaciousness in which movement occurs. This kind of recognition, whether fleeting or abiding, is called an awakening.

  Arjuna Ardagh

  Silence, Sound, Abiding

  Arjuna Ardagh (2008). “Leap Before You Look: 72 Shortcuts for Getting Out of Your Mind and Into the Moment”, p.8, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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

  Sleep, Together, Poet

  Quoted in Robert Fitzgerald (ed) Enlarging the Change (1985).

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• Women's propaganda must touch upon all those questions which are of great importance to the general proletarian movement. The main task is, indeed, to awaken the women's class consciousness and to incorporate them into the class struggle.

  Clara Zetkin

  Struggle, Class, Tasks

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• The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Best Friend, Romantic

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Oct 31, 2011

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• When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children, when we know love in our own hearts; or when, like the Japanese poet, Basho, we hear an old frog land in a quiet pond with a solitary splash - at such times the awakening, the turning inside out of all values, the "newness," the emptiness and the purity of vision that make themselves evident, all these provide a glimpse of the cosmic dance.

  Thomas Merton

  Life, Children, Heart

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• The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.

  Kate Chopin

  Beach, Nature, Ocean

  1899 The Awakening, ch.6.

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• The hero’s journey always begins with the call. One way or another, a guide must come to say, 'Look, you’re in Sleepy Land. Wake. Come on a trip. There is a whole aspect of your consciousness, your being, that’s not been touched. So you’re at home here? Well, there’s not enough of you there.' And so it starts.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Discovery, Events, Stranger

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• There is none dwelling in the house but God. When a man is awakened he melts and perishes.

  Rumi

  Men, Dwelling, House

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• My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Peace, Divine, Divine Nature

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.128, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey!

  Rumi

  Journey, Goes On, Strange

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.261, Shambhala Publications

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• In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhism, Meditation, Earth

  "Beyond environment: falling back in love with Mother Earth" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2012.

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• I believe there's a calling for all of us. I know that every human being has value and purpose. The real work of our lives is to become aware. And awakened. To answer the call.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "Every Person Has a Purpose" by Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. November 2009.

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• As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life. But life has no meaning; it cannot have meaning because meaning is a formula; meaning is something that makes sense to the mind. Every time you make sense out of reality, you bump into something that destroys the sense you made . Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning.

  Anthony de Mello

  Spiritual, Reality, People

  "Awareness: Conversations with the Masters".

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• 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

  Healing, Negative, Awareness

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• 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

  Society, Movement, Evolution

  Barbara Marx Hubbard (2015). “Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential”, p.21, New World Library

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• The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

  M. Scott Peck

  Life, Happiness, God

  "The Enlightened Savage : Using Primal Instincts for Personal & Business Success". Book by Anthony Hernandez (p. 147), 2006.

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• To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts for the fact that in the ego mode the mind is so dysfunctional. It is always concerned with keeping the past alive, because without it - who are you?

  Eckhart Tolle

  Past, Ego, Mind

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.22, New World Library

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• All our theories of improving the world, while we are still asleep, merely intensify the sleep of humanity.

  Maurice Nicoll

  Sleep, Humanity, World

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Abuse, Movement

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.144, A&C Black

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• I know that some people think differently about pilots, but I really enjoyed shooting Awakening.

  Lucy Griffiths

  Thinking, People, Shooting

  "Lucy Griffiths Talks TRUE BLOOD, Auditioning to Play Nora, and Talking With Fangs". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 22, 2012.

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