Quotes About Awakening

The hero, the waker of his own soul, is himself but the convenient means of his own dissolution.

The unpardonable sin, in Campbell's book, was the sin of inadvertence, of not being alert, not quite awake.

Description of the Six Bodily Centers of the Unfolding Serpent Power (?a?-cakra-nir?pana), which has been

It was all born suddenly, in a tempestuous wind. Eagles awoke out of turkey eggs.

Up, lad: thews that lie and cumber Sunlit pallets never thrive; Morns abed and daylight slumber Were not meant for man alive.

Down in lovely muck I've lain, Happy till I woke again.

They use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be used as a soporific. Contemporary music, especially, is created to wake you up, not put you to sleep. It is meant to stir and excite you, to move you—it may even exhaust you.

Every morning I wake up and thank God.

It seemed as if a glaze had been washed from my senses, brightening the sound of the traffic up ahead on the avenue, separating the bus's pneumatic brakes from the bass chug of the delivery-truck engines and the whir and bump of gliding taxis.

In Wirklichkeit war ich schon wach, aber ich hielt noch die Augen zu, um die Traaumgestalten noch länger vor meiner Seele zu behalten.

There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.

Emergent strategy is a way that all of us can begin to see the world in life-code—awakening us to the sacred systems of life all around us.

Piece by piece I seemto re-enter the world.

Every act of becoming conscious (it says here in this book) is an unnatural act

I've been woken up by things like the MeToo movement. I didn't realize how much of the patriarchy was ingrained within my spirit.

I do think there is this danger that our society has made its peace with decline. I'd like to jolt them out of their complacency a little bit.

People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.

You know how a lot of people say, 'I lose myself in music,' or 'I like to escape,' but I want my music to be more of an awakening. I want it to make people to be aware of life; I don't want my music to be a distraction. I want to light a path.

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

A beautiful wake-up is one of life's most perfectly happy times.

My individual power is limited. I want to use my high-profile way to wake people up to take action together to do good things. I can only awake them with my performance art and creativity.

Dor woke again as dawn came. The sun had somehow gotten around to the east, where the land was, and dried off so that it could shine again.

I asked him if Buddhists believe we all get a specific destiny. "We don't think there's a specific place in your life to go. Everybody's destiny is to become an enlightened being and reach the everlasting state of mind.

There is no inherent awakening power in cultural forms that have become dissociated from the wisdom and practicality that gave birth to them. They turn into illusions themselves and become part of the drama of religious culture.