Awakening Quotations

It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is.

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.

If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?

Of course the case of the Christian Church planted among the nations must differ, in various ways, from that of any sect forming in connection with religious awakening in a territory of professing Christianity.

When we fall asleep, we withdraw our awareness from its hypnotic fascination with physical sensation, thereby enabling us to listen with our now awakening sixth sense.

For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped.

I am obsessed with story. I had a late awakening in life. In college was the first time that I understood what you could do with a story and what a good novel is - literary value and subtext and irony and everything.

The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep.

My undergraduate years at the University of Nebraska were a special time in my life: the combination of partying and intellectual awakening that is what the undergraduate years are supposed to be. I went to the university with the goal of becoming an engineer; I had no concept that one could pursue science as a career.

The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

We live between the act of awakening and the act of surrender. Each morning, we awaken to the light and the invitation to a new day in the world of time; each night, we surrender to the dark to be taken to play in the world of dreams where time is no more.

It is a law in the universe that a wave of spiritual awakening is always followed by a period of doubting materialism, each phase is necessary in order that the spirit may receive equal development of heart and intellect without being carried too far in either direction.

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear all at once.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.

I look at tens of thousands of church leaders who still do need a bit of an awakening.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

Recent action in Syria and Palestine also tell us that the awakening voices of democracy in those regions are occurring, and that those in that region are able to pursue it without being stifled by terrorists that are despotic.

It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.

If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and honours, that I employ this power in the destruction of liberty and the diminution of commerce, let me awaken them from their delusion.

I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.

When we awaken, we cannot account for the time spent. We simply don't remember. About the only evidence we have of experiences while we were asleep is when we happen to remember a dream.

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.

In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger.

The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.

History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later with a whimper.

Any time you have an individual who is very confident in their abilities to persuade, there can be a rude awakening under cross-examination.

When one speaks of awakening, it means de-hypnotizatio n; coming to your senses. But of course to do that, you have to go out of your mind.

Spiritual awakening is the difficult process whereby the increasing realisation that everything is as wrong as it can be flips suddenly into the realisation that everything is as right is it can be. Or better, everything is as It as it can be.

Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.

Through radical generosity, we are awakening in people an in built divine consciousness of His goodness.

We talk about people being narrow-minded when they have a limited sense of possibility. Well, that's exactly what they are. They are narrow-frequencied, if you like. When we talk about people awakening, it's awakening to a greater range of possibilities, of awareness and frequencies.

I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.

The actual experience of awakening can only be in the present moment.

The secret of awakening is to unconditionally accept this moment as it is.

There's something in everybody that longs for that awakening to be more true to yourself.

When you recognize that there is a voice in your head that pretends to be you and never stops speaking, you are awakening out of your unconscious identification with the stream of thinking. When you notice that voice, you realize that who you are is not the voice - the thinker - but the one who is aware of it.

The awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step for mankind.

Only by awakening can you know the true meaning of that word.

Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.

Evolution usually occurs in response to a crisis situation, and we now are faced with such a crisis situation. This is why there is indeed an enormous acceleration in the awakening process of our species.

When there is spiritual awakening, you awaken into the fullness, the aliveness, and also the sacredness of now. You were absent, asleep, and now you are present, awake.

To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness.

Even if you achieve your outer purpose, it will never satisfy you if you haven't found your inner purpose, which is awakening, being present, being in alignment with life. True power comes out of the presence; it is the presence.

You are the artist and the art.

Don't change just so people will like you! Like yourself and your relationships will change. There are people who will love you for - YOU.

The more something upsets you, the more it is meant for you. When it no longer upsets you, it is no longer needed because the lesson is complete.

The love and attention you always thought you wanted from someone else is the love and attention you first need to give to yourself.

We may experience a realization of our true Self the first time we meditate, but most often the process of awakening is gradual.

The whole world opens when we accept this moment, this very moment.

I got to watch these athletes show their medals and pictures of competition. It's something I fell in love with the minute I walked into it. It was an awakening to see great young kids do such a good job.

Hopefully, this is the first step toward awakening America to what is going on, not only with Delphi, but in the United States with the attack on American industrial workers,

There is an awakening occurring at the traditional media companies.

Joey D had a little rude awakening to the big leagues last year. But the kid has a lot of talent and a tremendous ceiling ahead of him. We're hopefully going to help him reach it the best we can. I know where I was right out of college, and I wasn't where he's at.

Last year, instant messaging was the sleeping giant, and companies were literally asleep at the wheel. This year, people are awakening to the problem, but haven't necessarily come up with solutions.

People across this country are awakening to their rights and seizing on the promise of the law. But you cannot be a rights lawyer in this country without becoming a rights case yourself.

Our goal on the men's side is to be where we were a year ago, if not better, and for Rickey and John to improve their qualifying marks, and for others, like David Rae , to make it onto the national lists. Rickey is going in trying to defend his title. If he is able to do that, it will get us rolling. We also hope to score well in the pole vault because we have four solid athletes in it. David Rae is capable of scoring us some major points in the 3,000. We are a young team, but we have a lot of people capable of doing great things. Hopefully, Big Tens will be an awakening for them to compete at a high level.

Spiritually, the Holy Land really stirs you up and starts awakening many things in your life.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

That was our first NCL loss. It's not just losing in the NCL. It's losing in general. That lost might have been an awakening for some people.

Microsoft has been acting a little different lately. It seems to be awakening from its long slumber.

When something tragic happens, it's a rude awakening that life doesn't go exactly the way we plan. You grow up faster and realize part of life's beauty is that it isn't all planned, that there are many unknowns. Nothing's guaranteed, but you have to live. You can't just walk through life, you have to actually embrace it and go after it.

You learn a bit more from your losses. It was an awakening for our boys. They took the long scenic route. Every game was away, but it made it sweeter in the end.

True progress comes not through action, but through awakening.

Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.

Today a new faith is awakening — the Myth of the blood; the belief that to defend the blood is also to defend the divine nature of man in general. It is a belief, effulgent with the brightest knowledge, that Nordic blood represents that Mysterium which has overcome and replaced the older sacraments.

This was work (music industry) but it was the awakening to what was to become a life's passion.

Awakening is not changing who you are, but discarding who you are not.

Awakenings are always terrifying as they force you to realize your past has been lived in confinement, the most disturbing part is when you recognize that the shackle holding you down are largely once you have placed upon yourself, the prison is self constructed

The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less and less vivid every time they occur, till at length the mind grows absolutely callous.

Where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are.

It was Adam Appleby's misfortune that at the moment of awakening from sleep his consciousness was immediately flooded with everything he least wanted to think about

At first, He shook us very tenderly but now His shaking has become violent, because He has not succeeded in awakening us... God is going to shake everything in sight so that He is revealed as the only unshakable power!

Personal and collective awakening are one and the same - when a raindrop joins the sea, the sea also merges with the raindrop.

The dance goes from realizing that you're separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are.

We are slowly awakening but are still a long way from recovering from last year's fall off. The Nasdaq has been up and that's a plus. But don't expect too much out of these offerings.

That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening

We found that the cognitive skills of test subjects were worse upon awakening than after extended sleep deprivation. For a short period, at least, the effects of sleep inertia may be as bad or worse than being legally drunk.

With great hope we announce that Randy McCloy is awakening from his coma.

Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of the uni- verse and are appointed by Heaven.

I started off in musical theater, yeah. It was one of my first jobs; it was in Spring Awakening in London, which was amazing.

It was an honor and an awakening to know people are looking at me, and that I have an impact on both little kids and kids my age, ... Some people think being an athlete is the only thing we are focused on, so with this poster I can change that view.

Death - the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening

The modern age is often seen as an awakening of reason from its slumbers, humanity's enlightenment after an age of darkness.

This is going to be a big awakening for these people. When you're talking about households where money is tight, this additional amount can be make or break. It hurts.

This is an awakening for me, ... I didn't even know who Peter Vallone was.

There was so much meanness in the atmosphere, ... but marvelous things pierce through the darkness of poverty and racism. You meet all kinds of people that help put life in perspective and turn the horror into some kind of lesson or avenue of awakening that lives with you all your days.

It serves as a rude awakening when they show up and they realize 'Boy, it never occurred to me this might not be the right place.' ... In my mind, that is the function of really bad counseling.

It was a year of awakening for the new investor on Wall Street and it was a very quick and sudden reversal of fortunes for many. We ran the emotional gamut from total irrational thinking and perception to reality and capitulation. Last year's market did reinforce the notion that abuses and excesses are eventually corrected and eventually reach a level of overreaction -- and that's how the year ended.

Doing one's duty, however small, in an unattached manner gives rise to the awakening of self-awareness.

It's sort of an awakening of sorts. Now that we have the technology to do this so easily, it might be a more normal thing in the future.

They came out flying and were on a mission. We respected them, but they really took us off guard with how good they executed and how well they played. It's a different season when it comes to the playoffs, and we had a rude awakening to that last year.

These survey findings underscore the fact that when Baby Boomers are asked to address the potential of Alzheimer's in their future, they are clearly not ready emotionally, psychologically or financially. Many Boomers are currently more focused on health issues like heart disease or arthritis and mistakenly consider AD a problem of their elders. But when asked to consider themselves at age 70 with Alzheimer's disease, there was a visceral reaction and an awakening to the reality of what could await them.

I hope this is the beginning of an Islamic awakening and that it will lead to Islam's triumph in other countries.

Investors who had been less aware of mutual fund taxes had a rude awakening in 2000, when many funds had low or negative returns but still paid out large taxable distributions. Many shareholders who, in the past, might have been dismissive about fund taxes were horrified to learn they will be paying taxes on fund investments on which they lost money last year.