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Quotes About Awakening

The ground's soft with pine needles and the occasional crunch of a cone. The air smells like it's just been born.
~ Libba Bray
Everybody has to find their own way out of hell. Just don't fall asleep there, that's all.
~ Lindsay Clarke
We try to get out of these cocoons and make our way down to where our bodies are. We try shoplifting and racist/sexist/ageist humor (trying to offend our way out); we get naked on stage. We try sleep deprivation and razors on our skin. We date creepy, scary sleazes who we half-hope, half-fear might do the cutting for us. But we're so used to living inside a dream, even cutting feels dreamy. We can't get out. We can't wake up.
~ Lisa Crystal Carver
Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.
~ Adrienne Rich
Enlightened Society is all about nurturing the human spirit - waking up to the goodness, kindness and strength that we already have.
~ Sakyong Mipham
The social potential movement is on the threshold of a mass awakening, seeking to carry into society what individuals have learned spiritually and personally.
~ Barbara Marx Hubbard
We've been proceeding so long on the plane of consciousness, we don't realize we are spiritual beings. Our minds, our senses, and the society around us all say, "Come on, you're getting into fantasy.
~ Ram Dass
Human society is a ceaseless growth, and unfoldment in terms of spirituality.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.
~ Rumi
It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the 'I Am,' our real presence, can awaken.
~ G. I. Gurdjieff
The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw and knew I saw all things in God and God in all things.
~ Mechthild of Magdeburg
As you smell the fragrance of a flower by handing it or the smell of sandalwood by rubbing it against a stone, so you obtain spiritual awakening by constantly thinking of God.
~ Sarada Devi
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?
~ Rumi
Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Be kind to yourself as you proceed along this journey. This kindness, in itself, is a means of awakening the spark of love within you and helping others to discover that spark within themselves.
~ Tsoknyi Rinpoche
As you awaken to your divine nature, you'll begin to appreciate beauty in everything you see, touch and experience.
~ Wayne Dyer
I am perceiving everyone, including myself, as an awakening being who is here to claim his or her birthright to the higher consciousness planes of unconditional love and oneness.
~ Ken Keyes Jr.
Awareness is the greatest agent for change.
~ Eckhart Tolle
To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.
~ Dogen
Our original nature is...void, omnipresent, silent, pure; it is glorious and mysterious peaceful joy - and that is all. Enter deeply into it by awakening yourself.
~ Huangbo Xiyun
There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer.
~ Arthur Tappan Pierson
No great spiritual awakening has begun anywhere in the world apart from united prayer.
~ J. Edwin Orr
I think that in order to struggle you have to be creative. In my life, creativity has been something that has sustained me; it awoke my spiritual struggle.
~ Assata Shakur
Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you'll live as you've never lived before.
~ Erich Fromm