Quotes About Awakening

Let us take some event in the life of humanity. For instance, war. There is a war going on at the present moment. What does it signify? It signifies that several millions of sleeping people are trying to destroy several millions of other sleeping people. They would not do this, of course, if they were to wake up. Everything that takes place is owing to this sleep.

To awaken means to realize one's nothingness, that is, to realize one's complete and absolute mechanicalness, and one's complete and absolute helplessness... So long as a man is not horrified at himself, he knows nothing about himself.

The heat of his night time fever was being brushed away entirely by the breeze as the light mists evaporated. The same process that was happening around him, was happening within him too. He was being reborn with the morning.

Tout à coup, Florentine entra dans la réalité. La vague d'ivresses l'abandonnait. Elle la rejetait durement.

It is twenty-two degrees out, and when he wakes his hand is blue where it had rested on the ice. He stands and warms his hands on his jacket. He has never passed out in the middle of a run before. "Madame Olenska," he says. DR. ROSEN GIVES him a full examination. A.J. is in good health for his age, but there's something strange about his eyes that gives the doctor pause.

I never really drank coffee in college, but now I'm on my feet all day and out all night and can't believe it hasn't always been in my life. When morning comes I crave it.

he was as if a "reborn" human being, a "fundamentalist" as a human being.

Düzler ters. Siyahlar beyaz. Bir gün uyan?rs?n ve dünyay? böyle görmeye baÅŸlars?n.

But somewhere, a child surprises himself with his endurance, his quick mind, his dexterous hands. Somewhere a child accomplishes with ease that which usually takes great effort. And this child, who has been blind to his past, but his heart still beats for the thrill of the race, this child's soul awakens. And a new champion walks among us.

Mindfulness isn't necessarily about awakening within. Awakening wisdom teaches me how my exterior and interior life are not separate. What happens in the world is happening within me, and vice versa.

It is in these dark, intense, and lonely times that ascetics' souls awaken. I think that anyone who has been stretched in ministry knows that the real battle was fought at Gethsemane, not Calvary. To be sure, only Calvary provided payment for our sins and thus was absolutely necessary, but Gethsemane was the real spiritual battleground where Jesus made the final decision to be obedient. In a wrenching, courageous act of self-denial, Jesus proved the mettle of his faith.

When time stops, life starts.

One way the Holy Spirit will awaken you is to teach you that what you think is happening is not happening.

we're saying he had awakened from the dream. That's not just a minor distinction, Gary. Indeed, being more seemingly awake in the dream is what passes for enlightenment among very many, but that's not what we're teaching.

The real goal isn't dressing up your life; it's about awakening from what you think is your life! Then you're building your house upon the rock. J's message isn't about fixing up the world.

The Disappearance of the Universe

corrompidos por el mundo, y descubrirás que para

Dead, with my eyes wide open, I began a new life without a body. I had nothing to fear.   DOWNTOWN

True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.

The birds brought seeds & flowers & bits of brightly colored string & placed them in her hair while she slept so she would remember the wild joy of spring when she finally awoke.

But I opened up each pale eye within me and inquired until I found enough to tell me to rummage some more, and then I tried to close all the eyes again at once, to seal each back—for their own good, for their safety. Each was already crisscrossed with darkness and scars and damage, and awakening them seemed only to damage them worse, so better to keep them asleep.

The sudden screaming of women woke Tuco, who might have gone unnoticed had he lain quietly beneath the stone lip of the well.

He wanted to call it madness, but knew better. If this was madness, it wasn't his, nor even Cecil's. It was a madness that had anchored itself into the world, hiding in plain sight, and he was only now waking up to it.

until it was almost too late.