Quotes About Awakening

The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.

There I am, chain-smoking and watching YouTube videos in my bedroom at 6 A.M. when a spoken-word video comes on the screen. I knew I had to do it: that it was another part of me that needed to be explored.

I remember speaking to a sheik who came back into the political system in late 2008, laid down his arms. His troops became part of the Sons of Iraq, the so-called Sunni Awakening.

In your days - things like this happen to you... You get a tap, a nudge, a gentle shake, and life whispers to you, "I know you're tired - but I don't want you to miss this."

I'm the luckiest guy in the world. I wake up every day just fired up. My one rule is, don't let anyone pinch me, because I don't want to wake up.

I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.

Spiritual process is not for the dead or the dying; it is for the living who want to become fully alive in all dimensions of life.

I think we all want something to knock us on the head and change our lives.

Somehow you drift along on the river, and one day you wake up and you're someplace you don't want to be, with someone you realize you don't know.

One day you wake up and you decide you want to be different. You want a different life. You are tired of your old life. This is the truth. You will a change.

Ruthan Gudd drew off his gambeson and paused to luxuriate in the sudden escape from unbearable heat as his sweat-slicked skin cooled. 'Well,' said Skanarow from her cot, 'that woke me up.' 'My godlike physique?' 'The smell, Ruthan.

The night draws to an end, the dream dims in the pale silver of awakening. Kruppe ceases, weary beyond reason. Sweat drips down the length of his ratty beard, his latest affectation. A bard sits, head bowed, and in a short time he will say thank you. But for now he must remain silent, and as for the other things he would say, they are between him and Kruppe and none other. Fisher sits, head bowed. While an Elder God weeps. The tale is spun. Spun out. Dance by limb, dance by word. Witness!

Many dreams are forgotten upon awakening, yes?' He glanced away from her appallingly open expression. 'But not memories,' he said. 'They just rise up, like the sun. Each morning, after a moment's bliss, they return. Like ghosts. Demons. They return, Vastala, with all the fangs and claws of the truth. We awaken to what's real, what was and can't be taken back.' She

As he made his way back to his estate, Baruk recalled his lone meeting with Vorcan, only a few nights after her awakening. She had entered the chamber with her usual feline grace. The wounds she had borne were long healed and she had found a new set of clothes, loose and

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

I was sure he knew exactly what I had experienced in the night, as strongly as if he'd spoken to one aloud. In some way, he had experienced it too, and had been shocked out of his coma.

Was it an awakening to the bizarreness of the world that instigated their flight, or was curiosity a consequence of their running away?

The world is reborn every day, and when I'm part of it, I feel I'm reborn too.

You cannot contain me. You will return. You will call for me. You know you will. Like speaks to like. I woke you.

He patrolled the city to keep it alive, even though he lacked the power to wake it.

Sometimes being alive feels like a dream.

Soon, the great earth serpent would awake. Tamara knew that when it did, she would be a goddess. She would ride its power. Laughing.

A time had come, or was coming. He could feel drawing closer, feel its predator breath on his back. So he must face, and perhaps take strength from the power that had awakened here. e must access it fully. Perhaps then, the gate of his dreams and nightmares would open and the void be sensed within himself could be filled.

Daniel Cranton would be offered to the flame; the innocent, newly-awakened, brimming with psychic energy, untapped and fresh. Daniel.