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Quotes About Awakening

in a single instant, can the consciousness of the sin that has been committed in thoughts, words, and actions of our past life, be unfolded to us. When once the conscience is awakened, it springs up in the heart spontaneously, and God awakens the conscience when we least expect it. Then we can find no excuse for ourselves; the deed is there and bears witness against us.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
Los cuentos son para dormir a los niños y despertar a los adultos.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Women's propaganda must touch upon all those questions which are of great importance to the general proletarian movement. The main task is, indeed, to awaken the women's class consciousness and to incorporate them into the class struggle.
~ Clara Zetkin
For some reason, 1968 is a touchstone year for me. I think it was the first year I felt fully conscious.
~ Richard Greenberg
Wake up and ponder the future
~ Hunter S. Thompson
India will reveal to you the places in your heart that must be purified.
~ Erin Reese
The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening
~ Albert Einstein
The ground under the Bilva tree is very holy. Meditating here quickly brings about an awakening of the religious instinct. Shri Ramakrishna used to say so.
~ Swami Vivekananda
The banyan tree does not mean awakening, nor does the hill, nor the saint, nor the European couple. The lotus is a symbol of regeneration.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Trust your Heart. Value its intuition. Choose to let go of fear, and to open to the true and you will awaken to the freedom, clarity and joy of Being
~ Mooji
The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a True Human Being.
~ Rumi
Trust me when I say: Your commitment to love is crucial in the awakening of the world.
~ Gabrielle Bernstein
We are awakening to that marvelous truth, that Christ is not in the heavens only, nor the atmosphere only, but Christ is in you.
~ John G. Lake
You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they're ready to get it.
~ George Harrison
The day is coming when even the most closed-minded ridiculers will have to face the truth.
~ David Icke
Learn to shake yourself loose from what the world believes is the only reality.
~ Neville Goddard
We must always be disturbed by the truth.
~ Dogen
A perception, sudden as blinking, that subject and object are one, will lead to a deeply mysterious understanding; and by this understanding you will awaken to the truth.
~ Huangbo Xiyun
I felt the way I feel sometimes right before you go to sleep, when all you want to do is sleep, and then suddenly, when you're almost there, when your mind goes dizzy and it's almost like you don't have a body at all, your remember how long the night is, how you might not wake back up. And like a shock, you're sitting straight up, scared to do the thing you've done every day of your life.
~ Sheri Reynolds
But in my experience as a teacher, enlightenment usually sneaks up on people. Sometimes they don't quite realize how enlightened they've become over time because they have gradually acclimatized to it.
~ Shinzen Young
To live in the realm of Buddha nature means to die as a small being, moment after moment.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.
~ Sidney Poitier
Last night I dreamed I was still human, but now I have woken up, into something better. Farewell, my friends, farewell.
~ Simon R. Green