Quotes About Awakening

As we rise to meet the challenges that are a natural part of living, we awaken to our many undiscovered gifts, to our inner power and our purpose.

No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins we the people, not us the government.

To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.

Go and preach to all, 'Arise, awake, sleep no more: within each of you there is the power to remove all wants and all miseries. Believe this, and that power will be manifested.

Spiritual traditions and teachings have all emphasized that each one of us has a unique purpose and mission in this life to unfold and fulfill, and that this is our work. Our work has to do with purifying and awakening our consciousness, contributing creatively to our community, and being the voice and hands that confer blessings on others. As we discover our calling, and live it as fully as we can, we discover joy and meaning, and our life becomes precious and filled with blessings.

Indeed, when we awaken in the morning, rather than lazily lying in bed, we should tell ourselves that we must get up to do the proper work of man, the work we were created to perform.6

Marcus advises us to perform with resoluteness the duties we humans were created to perform. Nothing else, he says, should distract us. Indeed, when we awaken in the morning, rather than lazily lying in bed, we should tell ourselves that we must get up to do the proper work of man, the work we were created to perform.

All nature awakes to life and activity.

William Buhlman

Higher self now!" and "Spiritual essence now!

In dreams begins responsibility.

When one gets quiet, then something wakes up inside one, something happy and quiet like the stars.

We were late among the living.

revelation hit me like an ice-water enema.

Lo habitual en los sueños son las aventuras extrañas, asombrosas y terribles. Las tierras incógnitas vienen y van. Los sueños épicos se despliegan. Las guerras se luchan y se ganan. Los seres queridos se pierdan y se encuentran. Mientras dormimos, vivimos vidas completamente diferentes. Y después despertamos, con disgusto o alivio, como si no hubiera ocurrido nada.

There is an immediacy here which is both refreshing and startling.

The Union will awaken. It always has. We always will.

Akitchen in the morning: it can be a garden of the senses.

But still, this great awakening, this surpassing concern, was never excited by any harangues of terror, but always appeared most remarkable when I insisted upon the compassions of a dying Saviour, the plentiful provisions of the gospel, and the free offers of divine grace to needy distressed sinners.

While we may not awaken to a perfect, pristine world in our natural bodies, we can awaken to a "brand-new day" in our minds and hearts.

True forgiveness is the only key to real awakening. This level of forgiveness sees that individuals are always doing the very best they can in each moment,

Want-- I want-- I want, we want to wake up, to wake out of it, to wake into the light, I want to dip, to bathe my everything in light--

was as if a wall of mist were at my back, and behind that wall there was not yet an "I." But at this moment I came upon myself.Previously I had existed, too, but everything had merely happened to me. Now I happened to myself. Now I knew: I am myself now, now I exist. Previously, I had been willed to do this and that; now I willed.20

I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.