Quotes About Awakening

Between 2 and 3 in the morning of the 19th inst. I was aroused by the cry that the enemy was upon us.

Scott woke up with a bad need to urinate. Lying motionless, he forced one eye open.

window. All the ruckus, of course, woke up everyone in the house. Lilly's room was right up there. She

Richard Matheson

Isn't the point of music to move listeners? Mattison smiled. No. The point of music is to wake listeners up. To break all our ready-made habits. And tradition? Real composers make their own.

Then he woke up from the dream of humankind.

When her eyes open again, truths rush into her head. Like Enlightenment, but without the glow.

The bottom line of the Gospel is that most of us have to hit some kind of bottom before we even start the real spiritual journey.

People who have been initiated broke through in what felt like breaking down.

Sacramental listening reminds us that current suffering isn't the end of the story. God loves us deeply, and the vision for the future is vaster and more magnificent than we could ever imagine. In these moments of profound human presence, we are awakened to the divine presence and see that the kingdom of God is coming and yet is already here.

The biblical revelation is about awakening, not accomplishing. It is about realization and not performance principles.

In Paul's story we find the archetypal spiritual pattern, wherein people move from what they thought they always knew to what they now fully recognize. The pattern reveals itself earlier in the Torah when Jacob "wakes from his sleep" on the rock at Bethel and says, in effect, "I found it, but it was here all the time! This is the very gate of heaven" (Genesis 28:16–17).

Religion, at its best, helps people to bring this foundational divine love into ever-increasing consciousness. In other words, it's more about waking up than about cleaning up.

The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw and knew I saw all things in God and God in all things. —Mechtild of Magdeburg (1212–1282)

The Biblical revelation is about awakening, not accomplishing. You cannot get there, you can only be there, but the foundational Being-in-God, for some reason, is too hard to believe, and too good to be true for most people. Only the humble will usually believe it and receive it, because it affirms more about God than it does about us. Proud people are not attracted to such explanations.

It has been said that 90 percent of people seem to live 90 percent of their lives on cruise control, which is to be unconscious.

Once you wake up, as Jesus and Pope Francis have, you know that cleaning up is a constant process that comes on different timetables for different people, around many different issues, and for very different motivations. This is why love and growth demand discernment, not enforcement.

We have to accept that human culture is in a mass hypnotic trance. We're sleepwalkers.

Asking for something from God does not mean talking God into it; it means an awakening of the gift within ourselves.

Vera had often awakened feeling frisky, an enthusiasm that had seldom survived breakfast. Sully attributed this to her Puritan upbringing. Some girls you just had to catch before they woke up enough to remember who they were.

How soon will someone speak the word the resentful millions will understand: the word to be, to act, to live?

Oh, come on!' Percy complained. 'I get a little nosebleed and I wake up the entire earth? That's not fair!

Wha-what? Her eyes fluttered open. Nothing, I shouted. We're being followed by a slaying machine. Go back to sleep.

Percy!" he bellowed. He dropped his broom and ran at me. If you've never been charged by an enthusiastic Cyclops wearing a flowered apron and rubber cleaning gloves, I'm telling you, it'll wake you up quick.