Awakening Quotations | Page 2

I guess we saw those results. We just have to get better at what we do. As far as personnel, we have the guys to get it done. It was an awakening for us to realize we've got to get better.

It helped spread far and wide the basic values of freedom, democracy, equality, justice and peace, and promoted in a big way the awakening of the people of all countries, especially those of colonial and semi-colonial countries, thus exerting a sustaining influence on the development of human civilization.

I really believe that, as an artist, my opportunity to help to bring about awakening is one that should come from a personal process that someone has, and not from me telling somebody that this is the way it is.

Cities move slowly, but the storm awakened people. Crisis always does. And great things are possible. And with a great awakening comes the dislodging of money.

Built on the foundation of concentration is the third aspect of the Buddha’s path of awakening: clarity of vision and the development of wisdom.

Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.

Ah, if I could realize, if I could forget myself and devote my meditations to the freeing, the awakening and the blessedness of all living creatures everywhere I'd realize what there is, is ecstasy.

Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity. [98 - Zenith trans.]

Pause and remember - Making the wrong assumptions causes pain and suffering for everyone.

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.

I want to know what became of the changes we waited for love to bring/Were they only the fitful dreams of some greater awakening?

True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.

Such a caring for death, an awakening that keeps vigil over death, a conscience that looks death in the face, is another name for freedom.

There is also an awakening to beauty, because when you're really young you don't have that concept or opinion in place, so you make your own discoveries. It's different now with technology, and the constant bombardment of images.

He appears to be awakening from his coma.

This days one must be careful to avoid awakening the pain of another.

After his great awakening, the Buddha continued to meditate and to devote himself to others; otherwise his vision would have receded into a pleasant memory.

You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening.

Psychology, so dedicated to awakening human consciousness, needs to wake itself up to one of the most ancient human truths: we cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet.

In my twenties, I thought it was getting a sitcom. Then I got a sitcom pilot in my early thirties, and realized I didn't want it. It was a rude awakening. When it wasn't picked up, I was crushed, but then in retrospect I've made two films and produced three one-man shows since then. It's the luckiest thing that happened in my life.

One of the extraordinary things about awakening is that it carries with it the realization that there is only Spirit. Even the things of the world that we look at as problems are simply part of the way the world manifests, because it does so in terms of opposites.

Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.

The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant.

I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself.

A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her,—the light which, showing the way, forbids it.

He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.

but whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.

What defines someone's music taste is their teens and early 20s. It's that combination of your sexual awakening and the music of the time, it fixes you forever.

A global awakening can only happen from a spiritual awakening that is of global dimensions.

I've known since day one of working on 'Spring Awakening' - back in 1999 - that it was special.

The Bosnian Genocide was something that triggered my consciousness and led to an awakening politically for me.

The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best that is in us. It is only through our own personal awakening that the world can be awakened. We cannot give what we do not have.

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.

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

One thought cannot awake without awakening others.

Intellect may arrive at certain inferences, but intellect is an unconsicous phenomenon. You are almost behaving sleepily. Intelligence is awakening, and unless you are fully awake, whatsoever you decide is bound to be wrong somewhere or other.

Remember: whatsoever I am saying is not the thing that I want to say to you. Whatsoever I am saying has nothing to do with truth, because truth cannot be said. Whatsoever I am saying is nothing but a hammering. If you become awake, you will see the truth.

Look deep into your throbbing life and you will find the quality of the divine. You will not find a God but you will find a godliness, a truth, an awakening, a buddha.

How much longer will you go on letting your energy sleep? How much longer are you going to stay oblivious of the immensity of yourself?

It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself.

Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.

History is that nightmare from which there is no awakening.

The genre is in the zenith of its explosion. It is now awakening interest in the rest of the world.

The FTC's concerns about Internet privacy and the Microsoft case have made Washington more visible. The Microsoft case was a real awakening for people that the government does have an impact on your company.

The twenty-first century will be a time of awakening, of meeting the creator within. Many beings will experience oneness with God and with all life. This will be the beginning of the golden age of the new human, of which it has been written; the time of the universal human, which has been eloquently described by those with deep insight among you.

The world is in the condition that it's in because the world is full of sleepwalkers.

First, we become aware of that which is Divine around us. Then we become aware of that which is Divine within us. Finally, we become aware that all is Divine, and that there is nothing else. This is the moment of our awakening.

I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.

Since ancient times the term awakening has been used as a kind of metaphor that points to the transformation of human consciousness. There are parables in the New Testament that speak of the importance of being awake, of not falling back to sleep.

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.

For some people, it's the beginning of an awakening when they hear or read, "You have a voice in your head that never stops talking. Have you noticed that?" And suddenly they become aware that the thoughts go through their heads, whereas before they were so identified with them that they were those thoughts.

Spiritual awakening - is becoming awake to the aliveness of this moment.

The market is awakening to the scope of the risks.

The local church is awakening to become a force that we have not seen before.

I would say there have been different stages of my feminist awakening. The more layers you peel back and the more things you're made aware of, you're like, "Oh my God."

May all of our relationships be gateways to sharing in the highest love and sweetest joys, and to awakening to our full potential.

Yoga is about awakening. Yoga is about creating a life that brings more beauty and more love into the world.

Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special longing that will never again let you linger in the lowlands of complacency and partial fulfillment. The eternal makes you urgent. You are loath to let compromise or the threat of danger hold you back from striving toward the summit of fulfillment.

Spring time is the land awakening.

What we usually call human evolution is the awakening of the divine nature within us.

That defining moment at my friend's house, when his uncle looks in my eye and reads me the word of God, I have an awakening.

We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake

Remember that this is not something we do just once or twice. Interrupting our destructive habits and awakening our heart is the work of a lifetime.

Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.

What is needed, is an awakening.

When you catch on to your awakening, the world does not change. You just see it differently, that's all. You acquire a feeling of immortality. A feeling of divine bliss, so to speak, when things no longer have the power to affect you.

The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.

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

As we gradually learn to harness the optimal computing capacity of matter, our intelligence will spread through the universe at (or exceeding) the speed of light, eventually leading to a sublime, universe wide awakening.

Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments.

The question about the Salafi is an important question as I say in Arab Awakening, and have often repeated since. I am really underlining the importance of this, because we really don't have very good memories. Remember - the Taliban in Afghanistan were not at all politicised in the beginning. They were just on about education. And then they were pushed by the Saudi and the Americans to be against the Russian colonisation, and as a result they came to be politicised.

Self awakening enables you to see the human scene as it is, not as it appears to be, which frees you of its chaos.

A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.

The nonconformist here may be "beat down" by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.

the more naps you take, the more awakenings you experience.

We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening

During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream.

He who dreams ... does not know he is dreaming... . Only when he awakens does he know he has dreamt. But there is also the great awakening (ta-chiao), and then we see that [everything] here is nothing but a great dream. Of course, the fools believe that they are already awake-what foolishness! Confucius and you, both of you, are dreams; and I, who tell you this, am also a dream.

Theoretically there is no absolute proof that one's awakening in the morning (the finding oneself again in the saddle of one's personality) is not really a quite unprecedented event, a perfectly original birth.

The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening

The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not.

Anger may bring extra energy, but it eclipses the best part of our brain: its rationality. The energy of anger is almost always unreliable.

The whole art of teaching is the only art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy

To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.

The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness.

Freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness.

Mere isolation in an enclosing idea is not a release from conflict.

Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have?

To understand what is right meditation there must be an awareness of the operation of one's own consciousness, and then there is complete attention.

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

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is.

Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.

Most people like to live in illusions.

The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person.

Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life.

How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream.

True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude.

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

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

Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.