Awakening Quotes - Page 4

• Don't fear the light within. May it ignite the Sacred Flame in your soul.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 14, 2014

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• The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

  William Ellery Channing

  Wise, Book, Men

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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

  Night, Stories, Results

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• Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.

  Eugen Herrigel

  Teacher, Artist, Wish

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• To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship.

  Robert Byrd

  Speaks Out, People, Liberty

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• It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.

  Robert Musil

  Reality, Ethos, Would Be

  Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.18, Pan Macmillan

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• A sacred illness is one that educates us and alters us from the inside out, provides experiences and therefore knowledge that we could not possibly achieve in any other way, and aligns us with a life path that is, ultimately, of benefit to ourselves and those around us.

  Deena Metzger

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

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• People need to wake up and realize that life doesn't wait for you. If you want something, get up and go after it.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Life, Motivational, Inspiration

  Twitter post from Nov 18, 2013

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• One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.

  Walter Pater

  Beautiful, Art, Book

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.155, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Self, Class, Support

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• The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Thank You, Education

  Anatole France (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)”, p.120, Delphi Classics

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• The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Government, Our Generation, People

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1978). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• It is easy to imagine that the Buddha, the awakened one, is something or somewhere other than here or that awakening to reality will happen sometime other than now. But as long as we continue to think in terms of time we will deceive ourselves. The you who is chasing enlightenment will never become enlightened.
  
  Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn't exist?

  Adyashanti

  Time, Reality, Thinking

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• You can have a spiritual awakening and discover a new side of you at any age. And best of all, love can happen at any age. Life can just start to get exciting when you're in your 40s and 50s. You have to believe that.

  Salma Hayek

  Birthday, Spiritual, Believe

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• Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Movement, Helping

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.87, Vintage

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• The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. No one can proxy for us a masterpiece of loving or experience for us the rapture of art or launch for us book ships freighted with sweet bread to strengthen man. As of old we must be our own seers, musicians and explorers, and to an extent vaster than ever before.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Agony, Our World

  "Let Us Have Faith".

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• The dream of democracy has long been enshrined in the hearts of the Egyptian people. It only needed awakening.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Dream, Heart, Democracies Have

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• If you try to impress an alarm clock, it will simply tell you the time.

  Steve Pavlina

  Trying, Alarms, Clock

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• Personal and collective awakening are one and the same - when a raindrop joins the sea, the sea also merges with the raindrop.

  Dan Millman

  Sea, Raindrops, Collectives

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• Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.

  Kate Chopin

  Suffering, Wake Up, Dupes

  The Awakening ch. 38 (1899)

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• Only by awakening can you know the true meaning of that word.

  Eckhart Tolle

  New Earth, Knows, True Meaning

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.20, Penguin

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• The real work is in the Heart:
  Wake up your Heart! Because when the heart is completely awake,
  Then it needs no Friend.

  Rabia Basri

  Inspirational, Friends, Wise

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• Grace woke you up this morning, grace started you on your way and grace enabled you to survive until this very moment.

  Charles E. Blake

  Christian, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Tree, Too Late, May

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

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• I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.

  Aleister Crowley

  Faith, Morning, Philosophical

  "The Book of Lies". Book by Aleister Crowley, 1913.

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