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Quotes About Awakening

He bolted up. "What's happening? Where's my pants?
~ Jude Watson
Wake up and smell the corpses.
~ Judith Fitzgerald
It is wonderful Becoming.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
A poem should stimulate the sense of living and of being alive.
~ Wallace Stevens
Here the four elements of solidity, fluidity, heat and motion have no place; the notions of length and breadth, the subtle and the gross, good and evil, name and form are altogether destroyed; neither this world nor the other, nor coming, going or standing, neither death nor birth, nor sense-objects are to be found.
~ Walpola Rahula
We can recognize, moreover, that a move beyond our tribalism never happens in the ordinary. It takes a miracle, or a jolt, or a gift, or killing (as in Charleston) to awaken us from our tribal numbness, to see and act afresh.
~ Walter Brueggemann
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
Death — the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.
~ Walter Scott
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
~ Walter Scott
Divine judgment is intended not to destroy but to awaken people to the devastating truth about their lives.
~ Walter Wink
There comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness . . . that time is now.
~ Wangari Maathai
No importa cuán despierto hayas sido, una vez te adentras en las sombras de esta región ya no puedes permanecer ajeno a su influjo; la ensoñación mágica de su atmósfera se apodera de ti al instante;
~ Washington Irving
The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.
~ Wassily Kandinsky
The pain hits me in thick black waves. I scream loud enough to wake the dead... only it doesn't.
~ Wendy Mass
Karl Marx himself spoke to her and said, "Sheilah, arise, you have nothing to lose but your mediocrity.
~ Wendy W. Fairey
Once a new and more reliable means of contact becomes commonplace, as it will, then this species is going to wake up to its true reason for existence, and in so doing is going to reach a whole new level of life.
~ Whitley Strieber
Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death. That is why the spectacle of tragedy has always filled men, not with despair, but with a sense of hope and exaltation.
~ Whittaker Chambers
We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.
~ Wilbur Wright
O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?
~ Wilfred Owen
Arthur, sie ziehen die Grenzen zu eng. Ich verrate Ihnen ein Geheimnis, ein sehr großes und streng gehütetes Geheimnis, von dem alle wissen, außer Ihnen. Das hier ist ein Traum. Ich meine das nicht philosophisch, Gott bewahre! Es ist wirklich einer. Und zwar Ihrer. Wir alle gehören dazu, jeder von uns ist Ihre Erfindung. Wenn Sie aufwachen, sind wir weg, nichts mehr, gelöscht, es hat uns nie gegeben.
~ Daniel Kehlmann
O importante não é saber como aconteceu, mas, sim, sentir que o que aconteceu foi um evento importante. Esse evento se chama consciência. Tomar consciência foi a grande revolução que Rairu proporcionou às pessoas que estavam no mundo de baixo. Elas não sabiam que havia outra maneira de viver. Quando desejaram partir em busca desse novo mundo, puseram-se a caminho, e muitos conseguiram chegar até em cima, porém, outros não quiseram...
~ Daniel Munduruku
Não se esforça a curiosidade, desperta-se
~ Daniel Pennac
The plants that produce visions can function- for those of us who have inherited the New World Order of barren materialism, cut off from our spiritual heritage by a spiteful culture that gives us nothing but ashes- as the talismans of recognition that awaken our minds to reality.
~ Daniel Pinchbeck
I FELL DEEP down in there, until this bright light raised me from sleep. Coming out of a pit such as that, you think the bright light could be God or a cop on patrol.
~ Daniel Woodrell