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Quotes About Awakening

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
We are alive for a certain period of time in any given lifetime. We are competing against time. It is a race to see if we can wake up before we go to sleep again. That is the challenge.
~ Frederick Lenz
What emerges from the silence is the deafening sound of an old world disintegrating.
~ Marianne Williamson
The world is in the condition that it's in because the world is full of sleepwalkers.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Zen is the only religion in the world that teaches sudden enlightenment. It says that enlightenment takes no time, it can happen in a single, split second.
~ Rajneesh
The whole effort of a Jesus or a Buddha or a Bodhidharma is nothing but how to undo that which society has done to you.
~ Rajneesh
We still and always want waking.
~ Annie Dillard
He who looks without, dreams; he who looks within, awakes.
~ Carl Jung
Wake up people, you are sleeping your life away!
~ Monika Zands
Sometimes I wake up and think... 'I was asleep.
~ Rebecca Hurley
Your spiritual path isn't always just something you find, you started it the moment you took your first breath, and ever since you're been getting closer and closer to remembering who you truly are!
~ Martin R. Lemieux
The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness.
~ Frederick Douglass
Once you become aware of knowledge and you are conscious of knowledge, there is no going back to the previous conscious state of mind.
~ Nynke Visser
I am bewildering you a little. Just enough to help you forget what you came to believe, so that you can remember what you've always known.
~ Martha Beck
Mediation on the Holy Scriptures, awakens our mind on Christ Jesus.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is what happen when you wake up to its reality
~ Benjamin Suulola
Open up and wake up with blazing beauty just remember no one is perfect and you are the most beautiful creature on this planet.
~ Santosh Kalwar
I wake up to find magic, I seek dreams and I crave imagination. This is my creed.
~ Anastasia Bolinder
You have two choices: To live an unconscious life, or to be conscious of your magnificence.
~ Cloris Kylie
The most profound and shocking miracle is that without the gift of Randy's dying, I would never have discovered, or perhaps I should say uncovered, the brilliant conscious creation practice that has become my new way of living. Is
~ James Van Praagh
When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.
~ James Whitcomb Riley
Shake out the ruffle, turn and go,Over the trellis blow the kiss.Some of the guests will never knowAnother night to shadow this.Some of the birds awake in vinesWill never see another faceSo frail, so lovely anyplaceBetween the birdbath and the bines.
~ James Wright
The ravens of the night were hush'd, The bird of dawn began his lay, The rose-bud, newly wakened, blush'd To feel the touch of springing day; And bade the roses round unveil, Roused by the warbling nightingale. The jasmine stood all bathed in dew; Wet were the violet's lids of blue. - Zuleika's Dream
~ Jami