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Quotes About Awakening

The call to adventure is the point in a person's life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they know it or not.
~ Joseph Campbell
The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.
~ Marianne Williamson
Asking the questions - that's what changes lives. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry. And you cannot believe the old thoughts again.
~ Byron Katie
Ultimately we want to use dream to liberate ourselves from all relative conditions, not simply to improve them.
~ Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
He hath awakened from the dream of life.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
~ Zhuangzi
The Goddess teaches us that every ending is also a beginning. May there be rebirth from this death.
~ Cate Tiernan, Awakening
It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.
~ C. S. Lewis
My God, it transformed me. My life changed.
~ Julie Taymor
I must not fall asleep in the middle of my life. Out of the blankness that surrounds me I must pluck the incident after incident after incident whose little explosions keep me going.
~ J. M. Coetzee
Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again woke into life. We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was always used by Peter.
~ James M. Barrie
It wasn't through the mind, through thinking, that the miracle that is life on earth or your body were created and are being sustained.
~ Eckhart Tolle
This is the Easter message, that awakening is possible, to the goodness of God, the sacredness of human life, the sisterhood and brotherhood of all.
~ Anne Lamott
We teach our children one thing only, as we were taught: to wake up. We teach our children to look alive there, to join by words and activities the life of human culture on the planet
~ Annie Dillard
Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.
~ Anthony de Mello
An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.
~ Bernie Siegel
A death-like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life.
~ John Milton
Every new experience is unusual. The rest of life is just sleep and committee meetings.
~ John Twelve Hawks
For people who are really alive to have life awakened is more important than to get a sandwich.
~ Joseph Campbell
I fell asleep and dreamed that life was only Happiness. I woke and discovered that life was Duty. I did my Duty and discovered that life was Happiness.
~ Paulo Coelho
The enduring life is the one that begins once we awaken from this world. And it is in that awakening that we realize... It was only a dream
~ Yasmin Mogahed
What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidts the night of non-being.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
A longing for the dance stirs in the buried life.
~ Stanley Kunitz
The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life.
~ Swami Vivekananda