Awakening Quotes - Page 8

• The Buddha’s dharma didn’t teach peace and relaxation; it taught awakening—often rude awakening.

  Jay Michaelson

  Rude, Relaxation, Taught

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• Awakening the mystical kundalini prematurely is dangerous, because unless you have refined your being, you'll get all screwed up, entities, weird powers ... strange things. That is why I don't teach anyone how to open up the chakras.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Strange, Chakra

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• Each time you meet an old emotional pattern with presence, your awakening to truth can deepen. There’s less identification with the self in the story and more ability to rest in the awareness that is witnessing what’s happening. You become more able to abide in compassion, to remember and trust your true home. Rather than cycling repetitively through old conditioning, you are actually spiraling toward freedom.

  Tara Brach

  Home, Emotional, Compassion

  Tara Brach (2013). “True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart”, p.73, Bantam

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• As far as inner transformation is concerned, there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot transform yourself, and you certainly cannot transform your partner or anybody else. All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Love, Wisdom, Spiritual

  Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.93, New World Library

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• By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.

  Benjamin Rush

  Children, Mean, Mind

  Benjamin Rush (1988). “Essays: Literary, Moral and Philosophical”, Union College

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• Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Essence, Free Yourself

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• Waking up is unpleasant, you know. You are nice and comfortable in bed. It is irritating to be woken up. That's the reason the wise guru will not attempt to wake people up. I hope I'm going to be wise here and make no attempt whatsoever to wake you up if you are asleep. It is really none of my business, even though I say to you at times, "Wake up!" My business is to do my thing, to dance my dance. If you profit from it fine; if you don't, too bad! As the Arabs say, "The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens."

  Anthony de Mello

  Wise, Nice, Rain

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.6, Image

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• Awakening of Western thought will not be complete until that thought steps outside itself and comes to an understanding with the search for a world-view as this manifests itself in the
  thought of mankind as a whole.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Views, Understanding, World

  Albert Schweitzer (1932). “Civilization and ethics. 3d. ed”

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• Wine lovers all speak of their First Time, a quasi-spiritual moment of awakening to wine's wonderment. After that, it's a life sentence. I've seen it happen to even the most confirmed beer sluggers.

  Jennifer Rosen

  Spiritual, Wine, Beer

  Jennifer Rosen (2006). “The Cork Jester's Guide to Wine: An Entertaining Companion for Tasting It, Ordering It and Enjoying It”, p.13, Clerisy Press

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• Awakening is not a state but a process: an ethical way of life and commitment that enables human flourishing. As such, it is no longer the exclusive preserve of enlightened teachers or accomplished yogis. Likewise, nirvana-the stopping of craving-is not the goal of the path but its very source. For human flourishing first stirs in that clear, bright, empty space where neurotic self-centredness realizes that it has no ground at all to stand on. One is then freed to pour forth like sunlight.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Teacher, Commitment, Self

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• Awakening is not something you achieve. It is something you relax into.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Relax, Achieve

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• Spring time is the land awakening.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Spring, Land, Spring Time

  Lewis Grizzard (1990). “Gettin' it on: a down-home treasury”, BBS Publishing Corporation

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• Life is a dream and death an awakening.

  Laurent Angliviel de la Beaumelle

  Life, Dream, Life Is

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• Remember that that "rude awakening" which your parents and well-meaning relatives threatened you with as a kid is better than no awakening at all.

  Perry Brass

  Kids, Rude, Parent

  Perry Brass (1998). “The Lover of My Soul: A Search for Ecstasy and Wisdom”, p.28, Perry Brass

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• At first the, only subconsciously apprehended, approaching confluences of complex events make themselves known intuitively within the intellectual weather. Then comes a gradually awakening consciousness of the presence of new families of differentiating-out challenging concepts of every day prominence. It is with these randomly patterning families of separate concepts that evolution is about to deal integratively. As a now specific unitary problem it may be disposed of effectively when and if that unified problem becomes "adequately stated" and thereby comprehensibly solvable.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Weather, Challenges, Intellectual

  World Design Science Decade 1965-1975 Phase I, Document 3 : Comprehensive Thinking, "Venus Proximity Day", p. 33, 1965.

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• I personally believe in some sort of divine order - or energy. I do believe that everything happens for a reason. I do think that when something bad happens to someone it's with the purpose of awakening them. I do think there is some force behind that. I don't think there are accidents.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Believe, Thinking, Divine Order

  Interview with Ellsworth Kelly, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2011.

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• Its taken 14 billion years for matter to gain the capacity to become conscious of itself. If this is true, it wouldn't make any sense that the whole point of enlightenment would be to escape from the whole process at the very instant that the universe is beginning to awaken to itself.

  Andrew Cohen

  Life, Taken, Years

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• At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.

  Hakuin Ekaku

  Lying, Doubt, Bottom

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• The awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step for mankind.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Next

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• Do not seek the answers. Let the answers find you.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Answers, Spirituality

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• Only he who bestirs himself can advance spiritually. The fool who uses extraneous aids for this, in the form of the ready-made opinions of others, only walks his path as if on crutches, while ignoring his own healthy limbs.

  Abd-ru-shin

  Healthy, Use, Path

  Abd-ru-shin (1998). “In the Light of Truth: The Grail Message”, p.4, Grail Foundation Press

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• Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.

  Maria Montessori

  Mind, Firsts, Imitation

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