Awakening Quotes - Page 13

• 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

  Perfect, Needs, Action

  "The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power". Book by V. A. Howard, 1967.

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• Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability to submit to certain absurd duties, and a natural result of the distorted, unbalanced education given to them. This laziness, which leads to an insuperable reluctance to learn, is, contrary to appearances, sometimes proof of intellectual superiority and a condemnation of the teacher.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Teacher, Children, Intellectual

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• Celtic Tiger portrays the oppression of a people and the tiger symbolises the awakening of their Spirit and their struggle for freedom.

  Michael Flatley

  Struggle, Thinking, Favourite City

  "Celtic Tiger" by Lizzie Guilfoyle, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Healing is awakening to the perfection that already is ours.

  Baird T. Spalding

  Healing, Perfection

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• The Renaissance of Europe did not take place in the 15th century. Rather it began when Europe learned from the culture of the Arabs. The cradle of European awakening is not Italy. It is the Muslim Spain.

  Robert Briffault

  Europe, Spain, Culture

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• The factors that contributed to my growth were many - finding someone who understood me, exploring the unconscious, awakening my latent love . . . but one star is brightest among all: the self. I found the source of livingness inside me, something I didn't even know existed.

  Piero Ferrucci

  Stars, Self, Growth

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• Social justice is what faces you in the morning. It is awakening in a house with adequate water supply, cooking facilities and sanitation. It is the ability to nourish your children and send them to school where their education not only equips them for employment but reinforces their knowledge and understanding of their cultural inheritance. It is the prospect of genuine employment and good health: a life of choices and opportunity, free from discrimination.

  Mick Dodson

  Education, Morning, Children

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• No great spiritual awakening has begun anywhere in the world apart from united prayer.

  J. Edwin Orr

  Spiritual, Prayer, World

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• It is utterly impossible to divorce the story of student awakenings from the course of missions in countries overseas. From the beginning, one of the most immediate and dramatic effects of college revivals has been the recruitment of personnel for the work of Christ abroad.

  J. Edwin Orr

  Country, Divorce, College

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• Be kind to yourself as you proceed along this journey. This kindness, in itself, is a means of awakening the spark of love within you and helping others to discover that spark within themselves.

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Love, Life, Spiritual

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• 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

  Moving, Challenges, Looks

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• One thought cannot awake without awakening others.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Awake

  "Aphorisms". Book by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880-1893.

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• The great proliferation of museums in the nineteenth century was a product of the marriage of the exhibition as a way of awakening intelligent interest in the visitor with the growth of collections that was associated with empire and middle-class affluence. Attendance at museums was as much associated with moral improvement as with explanation of the human or natural world.

  Richard Fortey

  Intelligent, Class, Museums

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• Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.

  Malcolm De Chazal

  Sleep, Animal, Men

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• Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist.

  Ernest Gellner

  Self, Consciousness, Nations

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• I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good.

  Thomas Hooker

  Heart, Doe, Way

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• 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

  Spiritual, Saws, All Things

  Sue Woodruff, Mechthild (of Magdeburg) (1982). “Meditations with Mechtild of Magdeburg”, Bear & Co

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• There is no evil and there are no evil forces in the world. There are only people of awareness, and there are people who are fast asleep - and sleep has no force. The whole energy is in the hands of the awakened people. And one awakened person can awaken the whole world. One lighted candle can make millions of candles lighted without losing it's light.

  Rajneesh

  Sleep, Light, Hands

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• The majority of people are not awake; it is only here and there that we find one even partially awake. Practically all of us, as a result, are living lives that are unworthy almost the name of lives, compared to those we might be living, and that lie within our easy grasp. While it is true that each life is in and of Divine Being, hence always one with it, in order that this great fact bear fruit in individual lives, each one must be conscious of it; he or she must know it in thought, and then live continually in this consciousness.

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Lying, Live Life, Order

  Ralph Waldo Trine (2013). “The Wisdom of Ralph Waldo Trine”, p.392, Simon and Schuster

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• Our business is to wake up. We have to find ways in which to detect the whole of reality in the one illusory part which our self-centered consciousness permits us to see. We must not live thoughtlessly, taking our illusion for the complete reality, but at the same time we must not live too thoughtfully in the sense of trying to escape from the dream state. We must be continuously on watch for ways in which we may enlarge our consciousness.

  Aldous Huxley

  Dream, Reality, Self

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• Those who dream must be awakened, and the deeper the people are who slumber, or the deeper they slumber, the more important it is that they be awakened, and the more powerfully must they be awakened.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Dream, People, Important

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• Most people are unhappy; and they are unhappy because there is no love in their hearts.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Heart, People

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

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• Freedom lies outside the pattern of society; but to be free of that pattern you have to understand the whole content of it, which is to understand your own mind.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Lying, Mind

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “Individual & Society: A Study Book of the Teachings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.88, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

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• You can be creative only when there is abandonment-which means, really, there is no sense of compulsion, no fear of not being, of not gaining, of not arriving. Then there is great austerity, simplicity, and with it there is love.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Mean, Simplicity

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1970). “Think on these things”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• It is necessary for all of us to awaken in ourselves this spirit of cooperation, for then it will not be a mere plan or agreement which causes us to work together, but an extraordinary feeling of togetherness, the sense of joy in being and doing together without any thought of reward or punishment.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Agreement, Punishment

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1970). “Think on these things”, HarperCollins Publishers

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