Quotes About Awakening

I think you of all people are alive and appreciates what that means.

Your poem effectively begins at the first moment you've surprised or startled yourself. Throw away everything that preceded that moment, and begin with that moment.

The good poem allows us to believe we have a soul. In the presence of a good poem we remember/discover the soul has an appetite, and that appetite is for emotional veracity and for the unsayable. The general condition of the soul, therefore, is stoic hunger, stoic loneliness. Paul Eluard wrote, "There is another world, and it is in this one." The not so good poem isn't able to startle us into consideration of that world. The soul is never pricked into wakefulness.

The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent version in Shubert's seventh symphony. And I've rigged it up so that at exactly 7:30 every morning it falls from the ceiling onto my face.

At some point during our 13.8 billion years of cosmic history, something beautiful happened. This information processing got so intelligent that life forms became conscious. Our universe has now awoken, becoming aware of itself.

At some point during our 13.8 billion years of cosmic history, something beautiful happened. This information processing got so intelligent that life forms became conscious. Our universe has now awoken, becoming aware of itself. I regard it a triumph that we, who are ourselves mere stardust, have come to such a detailed understanding of the universe in which we live.

What if we decided to get right with God and begin humbly seeking His face in faith for revival and spiritual awakening like they did during the first and second great awakenings?

Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still had the house to yourself. That you and the mice in the walls were the only ones still breathing.

It was no dream she said. Dreams fade. Reality doesn't.

The dream didn't fade as dreams usually do upon waking.

I was struck to my heart and through my heart, knocked clean out of my ordinary life.

Life feels like fall of itself.""'A dream within a dream.""And I want to wake up.

Once you realize life is magic, you will never look upon the world with dimmed eyes again.

Sometimes we find ourselves wanting to impart the life of the gospel without telling a person that he or she is dead.

But I was done trying to wake her up, to make her see. To save her. The only person I could save was myself.

Spring is the season of restoration of all living things.

When will you open your eyes to the possibility of the world?

Wake up call may be a disastrous failure, if it results in a life change, the failure is worth the suffering

The moment you awake, you know the mystery of life.

I had to open my eyes, so I could see a new life!

And that was it. That was the moment when everything started to shift. What do you want?

When I wake up each morning, my first thought, is thanks be to God.

The easiest way to be reborn is to live and feel life everyday

What is this precious love and laughter budding in our hearts? It is the glorious sound of a soul waking up!