Quotes About Awaken

Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit.

Sits as one new-risen from a dream.

Living in filth is dark doom. The light of awaken leads to cleanliness.

I teach not by feeding the mind with data but by kindling the mind.

I am not a teacher, but I am a friend who likes to kindle your heart and awaken your mind.

Don't go to sleep to dream. Wake up and dream.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

In this spot, he is housed in evil. Reader, unbury him with a word.

Lord, as you awaken us to delight in your praise, grant that we may know you, call on you, and praise you; for you have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in you. Amen. —St. Augustine

I felt like a man who awakens in his own house and finds all the furniture rearranged, so that every familiar nook and cranny looks foreign now. Disoriented, he has to reevaluate his surroundings, reorient himself.

I do not believe that a violent imitation of the horrors of our times is the concern of poetry. Horrors are taken for granted. Disorder is ordinary. People in general take more and more 'in their stride'--hides grow thicker. I long for poems of an inner harmony in utter contrast to the chaos in which they exist. Insofar as poetry has a social function, it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.

All life is the struggle the effort to be itself. The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities my capacities.

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

My family is delighted every time I cook maitake. Our taste buds awaken in anticipation of its rich, deep and nuanced flavors.

OF ALL THE various unpleasant ways to be aroused from a sound sleep, one of the worst is the noise of a dragon and a unicorn playing tag.

You can awaken each day to obligations you never chose — or you can decide now to choose them.

Daily Law: Work at what connects to you emotionally and ideas will come to you. Mastery, V: Awaken the Dimensional Mind—The Creative-Active

One of the worst ways of being aroused from sound sleep, is by the noise of a dragon and a unicorn playing tag.

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. From screenplay: Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

You are not here to work. You are here to awaken.

It is high time for us to arise from sleep. —Romans 13:11

Anthroposophy does not want to impart knowledge. It seeks to awaken life.

The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.

My prophetic task would be twofold: to stand up to him, and to stand by him. To awaken his conscience, and to salve the pain this would cause him.