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Quotes About Awakening

I came alive when I started loving you.
~ C. S. Lewis
Love is when you suddenly wake up as a cannibal, and not just any old cannibal, or else wake up destined for devourment.
~ Helene Cixous
May all of our relationships be gateways to sharing in the highest love and sweetest joys, and to awakening to our full potential.
~ John Friend
May Thy Love shine forever on the sanctuary of my devotion. And may I be able to awaken Thy love in all hearts.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Swift doth young Love flee, And we stand wakened, shivering from our dream.
~ George Meredith
Yoga is about awakening. Yoga is about creating a life that brings more beauty and more love into the world.
~ John Friend
It's love,' they say. You touch the right one and a whole half of the universe wakes up, a new half.
~ William Stafford
What starts love is your ability to stupefy and blind yourself to the point of being able to fall in love. What stops it is waking up.
~ Fran Lebowitz
If we develop a good heart we will progress to true compassion, and awaken Bodhicitta. This is the way of the Buddha's method.
~ Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
Love always wakes the dragon and suddenly flames everywhere.
~ Richard Siken
Only if divine love burns in your heart can you awaken in a state of readiness, shaking off the paralyzing sleep that will overcome all humanity, believers and nonbelievers alike.
~ Basilea Schlink
A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Our primordial parents hearkened to the snake. They ate the fruit. Their eyes opened. They both awoke. You might think, as Eve did initially, that this would be a good thing. Sometimes, however, half a gift is worse than none. Adam and Eve wake up, all right, but only enough to discover some terrible things. First, they notice that they're naked.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
Knowledge frequently results from knowing others, but the man who is awakened, has seen the uncarved block. Others might be mastered by force, but to master one's self requires the Tao. He who has many material things, may be described as rich, but he who knows he has enough, and is at one with the Tao, might have enough of material things and have self-being as well.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
Un coma era como la muerte, aunque con una posibilidad de despertar, en unas horas o unos días. Una posibilidad.
~ Jordi Sierra i Fabra
Desejo dizer que há gente que não acredita em amor à primeira vista. Outros, ao contrário, além de acreditar afirmam que este é o único amor verdadeiro. Uns e outros têm razão. Éque o amor está no coração das criaturas, adormecido, e um dia qualquer ele desperta...
~ Jorge Amado
Masallar çocuklara uyumalar?, yetiÅŸkinlere de uyanmalar? için anlat?l?r.
~ Jorge Bucay
You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
If the book succeeds in awakening in you a consciousness of our past, now erased from memory, and in correcting what has been distorted and falsified, then I shall not have worked in vain, and on this basis, small though it may be, we can all set out to study the future.
~ Jose Rizal
The people do not complain because they have no choice; they do not move because they are in a stupor; and you say that they do not suffer because you have not seen how their hearts bleed. But some day you will see and hear!
~ Jose Rizal
The truthe wakes up once and never dies.
~ Jose Marti
so convincing were those dreams of being awake that he woke from them in a state of complete exhaustion, and had to go straight back to sleep again.
~ Joseph Heller, Catch 22
Tu comprends, ils sont venus dans leurs chars, avec leurs yeux vides. Ils pensaient que les chenilles des chars sont faites pour tracer la nouvelle loi des peuples. (...) La France est tellement civilisée, tellement amollie, pensaient-ils, qu'elle a perdu le sens du combat souterrain et de la mort secrète. Elle acceptera, elle s'endormira. Et dans son sommeil nous lui ferons des yeux vides.
~ Joseph Kessel
She's alive!
~ Erin Hunter