Awakened Quotes - Page 4

• What portion in the world can the artist have, Who has awakened from the common dream, But dissipation and despair?

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Artist, Despair

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.135, Wordsworth Editions

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• Unlimited inner strength can only be awakened when it is in the service of Love....When we align ourselves with that love and act in service of that love, anything is possible.

  Krishna Das

  Inner Strength, Unlimited, Anything Is Possible

  FaceBook post by Krishna Das from Dec 10, 2015

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• People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.

  Meryl Streep

  Children, People, Things Change

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• Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Sleep, News, Neurotic

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.59, BookBaby

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• You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.

  Caleb Cushing

  People, Rejection, Adoption

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• Don Quixote followed nature, and being satisfied with his first sleep, did not solicit more. As for Sancho, he never wanted a second, for the first lasted him from night to morning, indicating a sound body and a mind free from care; but his master, being unable to sleep himself awakened him, saying, "I am amazed, Sancho, at the torpor of thy soul; it seems as if thou wert made of marble or brass, insensible of emotion or sentiment!

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Morning, Sleep, Night

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1866). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.681

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• Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, - passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Night, Men

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.159, Courier Corporation

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• At every point in the human journey we find that we have to let go in order to move forward; and letting go means dying a little. In the process we are being created anew, awakened afresh to the source of our being.

  Kathleen R Fischer

  Letting Go, Moving, Mean

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• Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy. Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Men, Order

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Nature”, p.2

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• The other world is hidden in this world. The Buddha is asleep in the Zorba. It has to be awakened. And nobody can awaken you except life itself.

  Rajneesh

  Other Worlds, Experience, This World

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• We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet. Thus, in his sonnets, the lays of birds, the scents and dyes of flowers, he finds to be the shadow of his beloved; time, which keeps her from him, is his chest; the suspicion she has awakened, is her ornament

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Flower, Passion, Bird

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.51, Penguin

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• To speak about this universal force that will lead us beyond on the last horizon of our known self toward a wiser, more loving, more luminous states of being, we do not need to invent a new language. But we do need to listen to the old, the ancient one, not with our jaded minds, but with our awakened souls.

  Arianna Huffington

  Self, Soul, Mind

  Arianna Huffington (2003). “Fourth Instinct: The Call of the Soul”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Madonna Kolbenschlag suggest that if an awakened woman forgoes innocence and denial, if she refuses to make compromises with herself and defect to patriarchy, then her only option becomes deviance. I chose deviance. I chose to be a loving dissident. To dance the dance of dissidence. This stance can be assumed from the inside or the outside. Whichever place we choose, the important thing is having the sustained will to be, act, and speak from the ground of our feminine souls.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Soul, Important, Denial

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• There are two births: the one when light, First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence, When you loved me and I loved you, Then both of us were born anew.

  William Cartwright

  Light, Two, Soul

  William Cartwright, “To Chloe,Who For His Sake Wished Herself Younger”

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• Work with good directors. Without them your play is doomed. At the time of my first play, I thought a good director was someone who liked my play. I was rudely awakened from that fantasy when he directed it as if he loathed it. . . . Work with good actors. A good actor hears the way you (and no one else) write. A good actor makes rewrites easy. A good actor tells you things about your play you didn't know.

  Terrence McNally

  Writing, Play, Way

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• One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Christian, Spirit

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.248, Discovery House

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• Hate is the last refuge of the ignorant. Love is the medicine. Compassion is the gift of the awakened ones.

  Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

  Love, Hate, Buddhism

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• In general, 'Buddha' means 'Awakened One', someone who has awakened from the sleep of ignorance and sees things as they really are. A Buddha is a person who is completely free from all faults and mental obstructions. There are many people who have become Buddhas in the past, and many people will become Buddhas in the future.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Ignorance, Mean, Sleep

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• And rural nature is full of the same quickening spirit-it is, in fact, the exhaustless mine from which the poet and the painter have brought such wondrous treasures-an unfailing fountain of intellectual enjoyment, where all may drink, and be awakened to a deeper feeling of the works of genius, and a keener perception of the beauty of our existence. For those whose days are all consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolities of fashion, unobservant of nature's loveliness, are unconscious of the harmony of creation

  Thomas Cole

  Fashion, Nature, Feelings

  Thomas Cole (1980). “The collected essays and prose sketches”

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• Each night I lie and dream about the one Who kissed me and awakened my desire I spent a single hour with him alone And since that hour, my days are layed with fire.

  L. J. Smith

  Dream, Lying, Night

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• Humankind has no idea what existence is, at this stage. They're all dreaming, they're all asleep... Once in a great while a fully awakened one is here, observes everybody is sleeping and leaves, quietly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Sleep, Buddhism

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• An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

  Bodhidharma

  Meditation, Fortune, Dharma

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• Our senses are never more awakened to our need for His love than when our need is most exposed.

  Matt Chandler

  Needs, His Love, Exposed

  Matt Chandler, Michael Snetzer (2014). “Recovering Redemption: A Gospel-Saturated Perspective on How to Change”, p.95, B&H Publishing Group

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• What would dawn have been like, had you awakened? It would have sung through your bones. All I can do this morning is let it sing through mine.

  Diane Ackerman

  Morning, Dawn, Bones

  "The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death". Book edited by David Shields & Bradford Morrow, 2011.

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• It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet. They become proofs of original genius only as far as they are modified by a predominant passion; or by associated thoughts or images awakened by that passion; or when they have the effect of reducing multitude to unity, or succession to an instant; or lastly, when a human and intellectual life is transferred to them from the poet's spirit.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Beautiful, Passion, Unity

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834). “Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.183, Classic Books Company

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