Quotes About Awakening

Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes?

We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well. [294] On Duty

The question is not at present, however, of removing mountains, a thing that will one day be simple to us, but of waking and rising from the dead now.

For repose is not the end of education; its end is a noble unrest, an ever renewed awaking from the dead, a ceaseless questioning of the past for the interpretation of the future, an urging on of the motions of life, which had better far be accelerated into fever, than retarded into lethargy.

On a summer morning she woke to a sense of returning health. She had been lying like a waste shore, at low spring-tide, covered with dry seaweeds, withered jelly-fishes, and a multitudinous life that gasped for the ocean: at last the cook washing throb of the great sea of bliss, whose fountain is the heart of God, had stolen upon her consciousness, and she knew that she lived.

When the man hath, with his whole nature, cast away his sin, there is no room for forgiveness any more, for God dwells in him, and he in God. With the voice of Nathan, Thou art the man, the forgiveness of God laid hold of David, the heart of the king was humbled to the dust; and when he thus awoke from the moral lethargy that had fallen upon him, he found that he was still with God. When I awake, he said, I am still with thee.

He walked as in a twilight of the sense, Which this one day shall turn to tender light.

Until they become conscious, they will never rebel

A not-too-distant explosion shakes the house, the windows rattle in their sockets, and in the next room the class of 1964 wakes up and lets out a yell or two. Each time this happens I find myself thinking, Is it possible that human beings can continue with this lunacy very much longer? You know the answer, of course.

Hasta que no tengan consciencia de su fuerza, no se rebelarán, y hasta después de haberse rebelado, no serán conscientes. Éste es el problema.

I sometimes fear that we shall never wake till we are jerked out of it by the roar of bombs.

Hasta que no tomen conciencia no se rebelarán, y sin rebelarse no podrán tomar conciencia.

Bilinçleninceye dek baÅŸkald?rmayacaklar, baÅŸkald?rmazlarsa da hiçbir zaman bilinçlenemeyecekler.

Sooner or later it would happen: strength would change into consciousness.

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they haverebelled they cannot become conscious.

Winston woke up with the word Shakespeare on his lips.

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us, and we drown.4

Dopóki nie poÅ'Ä…czy ich Å›wiadomo??, nigdy sÄ… nie zbuntujÄ…; dopóki sÄ… nie zbuntujÄ…, nie stanÄ… siÄ™ Å›wiadomi.

Hasta que no tomen conciencia no se rebelaran, y sin rebelarse no podran tomar conciencia.

Have been sleepwalking through life, future reader. Can see that now. Scratch-Off win was like wake-up call. In rush to graduate college, win Pam, get job, make babies, move ahead in job, forgot former feeling of special destiny I used to have when tiny, sitting in cedar-smelling bedroom closet, looking up at blowing trees through high windows, feeling I would someday do something great. Hereby resolve to live life in new and more powerful way, starting THIS MOMENT (!)

It was always falling down around you, everything has always been falling down around us. Only we were too alive to notice.

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.

The dawn is an awakening to a deepening realization of who we really are in and with God and the world, and of what has been going on within us in the night.

Night Is Turned into Day