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Quotes About Awakening

One of the most spiritual things that can happen to you is a human breakthrough."
~ Steve Maraboli
To use a medical analogy, while mystics try to heal themselves (that is, to transcend sleep), conventionally religious people simply try to manage the symptoms. Near-death
~ Steve Taylor
Waking up from the cultural trance may require you to challenge your most fundamental beliefs and step outside of societal norms. When this happens, you discover new insights about yourself and typically go through a revision of who you are and what your relationship with the Earth is.
~ Steven D. Farmer
He reached out and laid a hand against Quick Ben's brow, then grunted. 'He's on his way back. It's protective sorcery that's keeping him asleep.' 'Can you speed things up?' 'Sure.' The healer slapped the wizard. 'Quick Ben's eyes snapped open.
~ Steven Erikson
I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.
~ bell hooks
Remember, you must not sleep at the Seder. If you do, Elijah the Prophet will come with a bag on his shoulders. On the two first nights of Passover, Elijah the Prophet goes about looking for those who have fallen asleep at the Seder, and takes them away in his bag.
~ Sholom Aleichem
I didn't long to be a designer. I always liked fashion, but it was always a bit sleeping in me.
~ Carolina Herrera
Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise.
~ Thomas Dekker
So many people are willing to sleepwalk through things and fall into the not human, not interesting choice. To make the really interesting choice, you have to fight.
~ Maggie Gyllenhaal
In the beginning of the Great War, the emotions of Europe ran riot in a most horrible manner, first among the so-called 'living,' and then among the killed when they awoke.
~ Max Heindel
changing the course of history or, in a great many more cases, the course of their own lives. "No doubt" is the key. I can think of a couple of ways to account for such a phenomenon, neither entirely satisfying. The most straightforward and yet hardest to accept explanation is that it's simply true: the altered state of consciousness has opened the person up to a truth that the rest of us, imprisoned in ordinary waking consciousness, simply cannot see.
~ Michael Pollan
What hits you affects you and wakes you up more then what pleases you.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Awareness makes all the difference.
~ Miguel Ruiz
The awakening is when you have the awareness that you are Life. When you are aware that you are the force that is Life, anything is possible.
~ Miguel Ruiz
Empecemos el día diciendo: «Estoy despierto, veo el sol. Voy a entregarle mi gratitud, y también a todas las cosas y todas las personas, porque todavía estoy vivo. Un día más para ser yo mismo».
~ Miguel Ruiz
El primer paso es siempre la conciencia, porque hasta que no seas consciente no podrás hacer ningún cambio.
~ Miguel Ruiz
Lo que ves y escuchas ahora mismo no es más que un sueño. En este mismo momento estás soñando. Sueñas con el cerebro despierto.
~ Miguel Ruiz
He had spent a lifetime cleansing his mind of poison. He had searched his heart, found the corruption, and removed it. He had torn away the lies—lies he'd been told and had believed, and lies he had devised and used against himself. This was his mastery—the purification of the mind and the recovery of authenticity. This scene symbolized the mastery of death, the awakening.
~ Miguel Ruiz
La consciencia es la habilidad para ver lo que hay, y nunca es demasiado tarde para abrir los ojos.
~ Miguel Ruiz
as he slept in a cave, he dreamed that he saw his own body sleeping. He came out of the cave on the night of a new moon. The sky was clear, and he could see millions of stars. Then something happened inside of him
~ Miguel Ruiz
One day, as he slept in a cave, he dreamed that he saw his own body sleeping. He came out of the cave on the night of a new moon. The sky was clear, and he could see millions of stars. Then something happened inside of him that transformed his life forever. He looked at his hands, he felt his body, and he heard his own voice say, "I am made of light; I am made of stars.
~ Miguel Ruiz
Eleven. I have waited for your awakening exactly an hour, for you asked me to come at ten. And here I am! (85)
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Tout à coup on perd pied dans les ténèbres fangeuses du sommeil, mais un tressaillement, et on refait surface aussitôt.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Waking up was sheer delight for him: he always showed a naive and simple amazement at the discovery that he was back on earth; he was sincerely pleased. She, on the other hand, awoke with great reluctance, with a desire to stave off the day by keeping her eyes closed.
~ Milan Kundera