Awakening Quotes - Page 29

• Today the West is awakening to its wants; and the "true self of man and spirit" is the watchword of the advanced school of Western theologians. The student of Sanskrit philosophy knows where the wind is blowing from, but it matters not whence the power comes so longs as it brings new life.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Philosophy, School, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1743, Manonmani Publishers

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• What we want now is an immense awakening of Râjasika energy, for the whole country is wrapped in the shroud of Tamas. The people of this land must be fed and clothed-must be awakened -must be made more fully active. Otherwise they will become inert, as inert as trees and stones. So, I say, eat large quantities of fish and meat, my boy!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Boys, Land

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• You see, no one can teach anybody. The teacher spoils everything by thinking that he is teaching. Thus Vedanta says that within man is all knowledge-even in a boy it is so-and it requires only an awakening, and that much is the work of a teacher.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Teacher, Teaching, Boys

  Swami Vivekananda “My Idea of Education”, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• 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

  Acceptance, Forever, Trying

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• Majestic and stately as Conrad Richter''s Awakening Land Trilogy, Evangeline is a big book from a big mind.

  Katharine Weber

  Book, Land, Mind

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• So the best marriages and the deepest relationships with God grow out of the startling discovery that there is nothing one can do to earn love, and even more startling, that there is also nothing one can do to unlearn it, or to keep oneself from being loved. This is a religious awakening that is utterly different from any other religious experience, no matter how profoundly spiritual it may seem.

  Mike Mason

  Love, Spiritual, Religious

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• The Seven Factors of Awakening are mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go.

  Nhat Hanh

  Letting Go, Joy, Mindfulness

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.76, Harmony

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• Where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are.

  Anne Lamott

  Restoration, Walks

  Anne Lamott (2013). “Help: The First Essential Prayer”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• 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

  Inspiration, Men, Merit

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• If the Lord tarries, there may yet be a grass-roots awakening that will overflow all sectarian barriers. There are a host of good people... who long for a visitation from heaven in old-time power. The kindling wood is scattered all round in all the churches. May God help us to rake off the ashes, uncover the live coals and may He blow upon us with the breath of His Spirit!

  Vance Havner

  Blow, Roots, Long

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• 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

  Thinking, Media, People

  "The role of journalists and corporates in combating climate change" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2010.

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• We need a revival in the country,” Paul said. “We need another Great Awakening with tent revivals of thousands of people saying, 'reform or see what's going to happen if we don't reform.'

  Rand Paul

  Country, People, Reform

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• 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

  Night, Mind, Chaos

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• The awakening an artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others.

  Steven Pressfield

  Artist, Ruthless

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.20, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• I am obsessed with story. I had a late awakening in life. In college was the first time that I understood what you could do with a story and what a good novel is - literary value and subtext and irony and everything.

  Shane Carruth

  College, Stories, Firsts

  "DVD Re-run Interview: Shane Carruth on “Primer”; The Lessons of a First-Timer". Interview with Wendy Mitchell, www.indiewire.com. April 18, 2005.

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• Delusion and the awakening - both can come and go slowly or suddenly.

  Shenhui

  Delusion, Comes And Goes

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• Poetry is that magic which consists in awakening sensations with the help of a combination of sounds ... that sorcery by which ideas are necessarily communicated to us, in a definite way, by words which nevertheless do not express them.

  John Banville

  Art, Ideas, Poetry

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• As Razam so aptly demonstrates, a new kind of traveler is emerging-one that embarks into the mysterious and uncharted domain within, where they aim to conquer their own hearts. Written in the tradition of a great adventure narrative, Aya Awakenings is a timely story for a new emerging era.

  Yossi Ghinsberg

  Heart, Adventure, Stories

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• One-third of the world, it has been said, may be free- -but one-third is the victim of cruel repression--and the other one- third is rocked by the pangs of poverty, hunger and envy. More energy is released by the awakening of these new nations than by the fission of the atom itself.

  John F. Kennedy

  Envy, Energy, Atoms

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• Some people are called upon to do great things externally in this world by creating some new structure that reflects their awakening consciousness. Other people are not called to go out into the world and create great big things externally. Their purpose is to let consciousness flow into whatever they do - to do everything in a sacred manner.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Creating, People, Purpose

  Source: jhaines6.wordpress.com

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• 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

  Numbers, People, Wonderful

  Source: jhaines6.wordpress.com

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• Chauvet Cave is rather like the awakening of the modern human soul or I would say the awakening of modern human culture. Because Neanderthal men who still rode the landscape parallel to the people who did these paintings didn't have culture. There's no evidence of culture, no symbolic depiction, no evidence of music, no evidence of sculptures, no evidence of religious beliefs.

  Werner Herzog

  Religious, Men, People

  "Cave of Forgotten Dreams (3D) - Werner Herzog interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Awakening in the morning returns us to life, and to awareness of death.

  Mason Cooley

  Life, Morning, Return

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• The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less and less vivid every time they occur, till at length the mind grows absolutely callous.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Mind, Vivid, Action

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• The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening.

  Anne Lamott

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Self

  Anne Lamott (2012). “Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers”, p.22, Penguin

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