Quotes About Awakening

Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up?

Mit einem Spatz erwachte Camille Fauque aus einem tiefen Schlaf, es folgten zwei, dann drei, dann ein ganzer Vogelschwarm spöttisch dreinschauender Vögel. Sie hatte seit über einem Jahr nichts mehr gezeichnet.

Meditation needs an awake mind not an unconscious one.

My mother always closes her bedroom drapes tight before going to bed at night. I open mine as wide as possible. I like to see everything, I say. What's there to see? Moon. Air. Sunrise. All that light on your face in the morning. Wakes you up. I like to wake up.

no interaction with another person ever brought her a bolt of pure aliveness like entering the water on a still morning with the world empty in every direction to the sky.

We may never have another Great Awakening in our nation until you and I stop pointing our finger at "them" and deal with the sin in our own hearts and lives.

In working with the wounded at Gallipoli, the lead character comments, "Perhaps life was the nightmare and death the awakening.

The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead.

The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead.

Well, one gets out of bed and the planets don

know for certain that millions, I say deliberately, millions, in every civilised land are waiting for the message that will save them from the hideous abyss of materialism into which modern money-worship is driving them headlong,

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. '

How would you behave if you knew you were a God or Goddess? How would you treat yourself, how would you treat others? What kind of consciousness would you hold about your smallest actions if you knew their effects influenced the rest of creation? If your awakenings could bring joy to the multitudes? What kind of mindfulness would that inspire?

I became a conservative after a deeply profound spiritual awakening at which point I repented of my anger, and God allowed me to see reality.

The rude awakening I got was that this country can determine the fate of anyone by using propaganda on a public that is hungry for lies.

Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.

Asking clients, 'Is there someone in your life making you afraid? or 'Controlling what you do or say?' promises an even more profound awakening than asking women about violence.

When you bring consciousness to anything, things begin to shift.

With the awakening of his emotions, his first perception was a sense of futility, a dull ache at the utter grayness of his life.

They awoke, nauseated and tired, dispirited with life, capable only of one pervasive emotion – fear.

He merely slid into the matter through his inability to make definite judgments. He could say No! neither to man nor woman; borrower and temptress alike found him tender-minded and pliable. Indeed he seldom made decisions at all, and when he did they were but half-hysterical resolves formed in the panic of some aghast and irreparable awakening.

I thought i could wake up this sleeping country with my cries, but still they sleep as if in a dream.

Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity. [98 - Zenith trans.]