Quotes About Awakening

Meditation means to awaken new dimensions within you.

There's a fire that burns away the lies, manifesting in the spiritual eye.

Wine lovers all speak of their First Time, a quasi-spiritual moment of awakening to wine's wonderment. After that, it's a life sentence. I've seen it happen to even the most confirmed beer sluggers.

If you want the Divine to become alive within you, first of all you as a human being have to become absolutely alive.

It's funny, people who have a lot of sexual energy think of themselves as being not spiritual. They are probably more spiritually inclined. All that sexual energy is kundalini.

The awakening process is not about 'finding who you are' but more about finding out about the ego, about who you are not.

Spiritual awakening is not really spiritual at all.

To live a life without awakening is to leave it as it was begun.

The innate longing within every soul is to awaken from the spirit's slumber and then to journey home.

Awakening means you've come home to yourself, that consciousness shifted back to its original nature.

The awakening is finally realizing that you are a part of God, like a single cell that finally sees it is a part of you.

When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.

How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology? In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it

Little Reuben woke up repeating word for word a long lecture by that curious old writer (one of the very few whose works have been permitted to come down to us), George Bernard Shaw, who was speaking, according to a well-authenticated tradition, about his own genius.

I slept with Faith, and found a corpse in my arms on  awaking; I drank and danced all night with Doubt, and found her a virgin in the morning.

I slept with Faith, and found a corpse in my arms on awaking; I drank and danced all night with Doubt, and found her a virgin in the morning.

Cree usted que es un bien devolverle la razón y abrirle los ojos otra vez a este mundo sucio que la rodea?

Perché è così che ti frega, la vita. Ti piglia quando hai ancora l'anima addormentata e ti semina dentro un'immagine, o un odore, o un suono che poi non te lo togli più. E quella lì era la felicità. Lo scopri dopo, quand'è troppo tardi. E già sei, per sempre, un esule: a migliaia di chilometri da quell'imagine, da quel suono, da quell'odore. Alla deriva.»

Quando cade un quadro. Quando ti svegli, un mattino, e non la ami più. Quando apri il giornale e leggi è scoppiata la guerra. Quando vedi un treno e pensi io devo andarmene da qui. Quando ti guardi allo specchio e ti accorgi che sei vecchio. Quando, in mezzo all'Oceano, Novecento alzò lo sguardo dal piatto e mi disse: "A New York, fra tre giorni, io scenderò da questa nave". Ci rimasi secco. Fran.

Hemos removido la tierra de una forma tan violenta que hemos vuelto a despertar la crueldad de los niños

Denn gerade so haut dich das Leben übers Ohr. Es packt dich, wenn deine Seele noch schläft und gibt dir ein Bild ein oder einen Geruch oder einen Klang, die du nicht mehr loswirst.

Perché è così che ti frega, la vita. Ti piglia quando hai ancora l'anima addormentata e ti semina dentro un'immagine, o un odore, o un suono che poi non te lo togli più. E quella lì era la felicità.

You wake, you die.

Rapid learning offers another trace of talent. Sometimes a talent doesn't signal itself through yearning. For a myriad of reasons, although the talent exists within you, you don't hear its call. Instead, comparatively late in life, something sparks the talent, and it is the speed at which you learn a new skill that provides the telltale clue to the talent's presence and power.