Quotes About Awakening

I wake up in that state of grief when you can tell you've been mourning even in your sleep.

Under Arab rule, Palestine had always been a somnolent desert land that could have sustained no authentic twentieth-century Arab awakening. Palestine without Jews is a not a nation but a naqba.

I had a dream, which was not at all a dream.

Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.

Martin Marty, a young Lutheran scholar, offered further insights into the situation in The New Shape of American Religion, which appeared in 1959. The so-called revival of religion, Marty explained, was largely a revival of "interest in religion." Unlike earlier American awakenings, this one was not primarily a renewal of Protestantism but "a maturing national religion

Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious." (Orwell, "1984")

The ground was so far below him, he could barely make it out through the grey mists that whirled around him, but he could feel how fast he was falling, and he knew what was waiting for him down there. Even in dreams, you could not fall forever. He would wake up in the instant before he hit the ground, he knew. You always woke in the instant before you hit the ground.

Old powers waken. Shadows stir. An age of wonder and terror will soon be upon us, and age for gods and heroes.

You are the winged wolf, but you will never fly... unless you open your eye." - Jojen

He closed his third eye and opened the other two, the old two, the blind two.

It might have been minutes or it might have been hours; time slept when swords woke.

Time slept when swords woke.

The wolf dreams are no true dreams. You have your eye closed tight whenever you're awake, but as you drift off it flutters open and your soul seeks its other half. The power is strong in you.' 'I don't want it, I want to be a knight.' 'A knight is what you want. A warg is what you are. You can't change that, Bran, you can't deny it or push it away. You are the winged wolf but you will never fly. (...) Unless you open your eye.

The conqueror and king in each of us is the Knower of truth. Let that Knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual.

It was no half-hearted spring, this: the whole island vibrated with it as though a great, ringing chord had been struck. Everyone and everything heard it and responded.

I would awake early, breakfast hurriedly under the tangerine trees already fragrant with the warmth of the early sun

The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.

With each sunrise, we start anew.

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time.

We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.