Quotes About Awakening

True gratitude and hypocrisy cannot exist together. They are totally incompatible. ... We cannot be satisified to make a mental note of things which God has done for us and then perfunctorily thank him for favors recieved. ... Gratitude therefore takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and praise of the goodness of God. For the grateful man knows that God is good, not by hearsay, but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.

To be religious even in a personal way, you have to wake up and find your own portals to wonder and transcendence.

What's waking up in me as a result of my rage? How can I use the intensity of this energy to fuel positive change in my life? What rights am I now willing to stand up for?

The only way to outrun the sorrow of losing the attentions and affections of the person you have loved is to use the fierce and fiery pain of it to catalyze your own awakening and propel you to become the person you were born to be.

The movement of descent and discovery begins at the moment you consciously become dissatisfied with life. . . . Concealed within this basic unhappiness with life and existence is the embryo of a growing intelligence, a special intelligence, usually buried under the immense weight of social shams. A person who is beginning to sense the suffering of life is, at the same time, beginning to "awaken" to deeper realities, truer realities.4

Listening to Jeremiah is one hell of a way to get your blood going in the morning; it puts caffeine to shame.

mirror. Daylight now awaken thee." With a loud clap of his hands, Mr.

Ladies didn't wake up on the floor, covered in cat.

A young woman on the cusp of her sexual awakening is a powerful creature.' She

It seemed that up until this moment she had been only half alive.

There was a worm addicted to grape leaves, she continued, and suddenly it woke up. Call it a miracle, whatever, something woke it up and it wasn't a worm anymore. It was the whole vineyard, and the orchard too, the fruit, the trunks, an ever-expanding joy that didn't need to devour anything.

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations. - Patricia Neal

I love the smell of estrogen in the morning

If Holland recovers consciousness, tell him we'll get him to a healer just as soon as we can," I told them. "You may not want to let him see his arm lying there, though. That's an awfully startling thing to see when you just come to your senses." - Ysolde

there is no such thing as a charmed life, not for any of us, no matter where we live or how mindfully we attend to the tasks at hand. But there are charmed moments, all the time, in every life and in every day, if we are only awake enough to experience them when they come and wise enough to appreciate them.

While you are conscious of being a Buddha, you are not truly a Buddha, because you are ensnared by the idea. You are not empty.

I could wake her up and ask have you ever been to the ocean? but I already know that answer. She has not. You can tell. It would humble you I whisper to her sleeping if you for one time stood by something stronger than yourself.

When you begin to realize the true weight of your actions...you will awaken to become the person the world needs you to be.

To wake, and sleep, and know that one is loved; to hear, as I hear now, the whisper of a footfall; to feel the touch of hands; these things, above all else, are to be desired. I count myself fortunate, in that, for a little while, I have known them.

Dante 19 had it wrong. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here leads to awakening, not to the realms of hell.

I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.

The adventure of awakening is among the most universal of human dramas.

Conform unui str?vechi obicei oriental, trezirea din somn nu trebuie s? se produc? brusc, deoarece se consider? c?, în timpul somnului, sufletul se plimb? în alte lumi È™i, de aceea, are nevoie de timp pentru a se reîntoarce încet în trup.

Intellectually, we all know that we cannot avoid death. But for most people, there is usually a wide discrepancy between between intellectual reality and psychological reality. Psychologically, we tend to deny death. [...] Recognizing the reality of death psychologically and not just intellectually is an important part of spiritual awakening.