Awakened Quotes - Page 8

• Once you have awakened to the question of faith, you cannot simply return to your everyday agenda like a committed atheist could. You cannot retreat to the comforts of atheism.

  Martin Walser

  Atheist, Everyday, Atheism

  "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with Alexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. September 3, 2012.

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• For a relationship to deepen, at some point the spiritual dimension needs to come in. You don't even need to be fully awakened for this to happen, but if it does happen it certainly means you are awakening.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Mean, Awakening

  "Where Are You Now? An Interview with Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Stephen Gawtry, www.watkinsmagazine.com. November 4, 2014.

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• At the deepest level, an 'open heart' is spacious presence, in which the sense of separateness between yourself and the 'other' dissolves and there is the recognition of oneness, of shared consciousness. That recognition is love. Sensing the formless essence in another and recognizing it as one with your own essence - that's what love is. All this is an intrinsic part of the awakened consciousness and the revelation of the spiritual dimension of life.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Heart, Love Is

  "Where Are You Now? An Interview with Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Stephen Gawtry, www.watkinsmagazine.com. November 4, 2014.

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• An awakened people who rely upon their nonviolent strength are independent in the face of any conceivable combination of the armed powers.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Independent, Rely Upon, People

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• Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Mean, Reform

  Mahatma Gandhi (1988). “Gandhi on Women: Collection of Mahatma Gandhi's Writings and Speeches on Women”

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• An India awakened and free has a message of peace and goodwill to a groaning world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, World, Messages

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.221, Grove Press

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• Friendship after the flesh is very easily destroyed on some slight pretext, since it is not held firm by spiritual perception. But when a person is spiritually awakened, even if something irritates him, the bond of love is not dissolved; rekindling himself with warmth of the love of God, he quickly recovers himself and with great joy seeks his neighbor's love, even though he has been gravely wronged or insulted by him. For sweetness of God completely consumes the bitterness of the quarrel.

  Diadochos of Photiki

  Spiritual, Peace, Love Is

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• Whether you find it through mediation or sighing over tea or just turning all your devices off for five minutes, listening is an ancient lifeline by which we are awakened time and again. Once reawakened, we more easily find our way to each other, and so help each other live.

  Mark Nepo

  Tea, Listening, Way

  Mark Nepo (2012). “Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• Constantine, the Emperor, saw something in the religion of Christ's people which awakened his interest, and now we see him uniting religion to the state and marching up the marble steps of the Emperor's palace, with the church robed in purple. Thus and there was begun the most baneful misalliance that ever fettered and cursed a suffering world... When ... Constantine crowned the union of church and state, the church was stamped with the spirit of the Caesars.

  George W Truett

  Purple, People, Suffering

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• It has been said that in the New Testament doctrine is grace; and ethics is gratitude; and something is wrong with any form of Christianity in which, experimentally and practically, this saying is not being verified. Those who suppose that the doctrine of God's grace tends to encourage moral laxity are simply showing that, in the most literal sense, they do not know what they are talking about. For love awakens love in return; and love, once awakened, desires to give pleasure.

  J. I. Packer

  Gratitude, Talking, Giving

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• The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day.

  Georg Solti

  Ambition, Musical, This Day

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• Those who dream must be awakened, and the deeper the people are who slumber, or the deeper they slumber, the more important it is that they be awakened, and the more powerfully must they be awakened.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Dream, People, Important

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• Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Wisdom, Shining

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• The non-doing of any evil,
  the performance of what's skillful,
  the cleansing of one's own mind:
  this is the teaching of the Awakened.

  Gautama Buddha

  Teaching, Evil, Mind

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• I found everything so remote but, at the same time, familiar when I occasionally looked into the mountains, rocks, pine trees and plums depicted in old literati paintings. My innermost feeling which was awakened by the same mountains, rocks, pine trees and plums has been totally and utterly changed. Moreover, like an apparition, it hides deep down in my vessels. The very trees and rocks have become the storage of memories and emotions from various eras. Forced by the rapid change of time and perspective, I cannot help but feel urged to face up to these things once again.

  Zhang Xiaogang

  Memories, Rocks, Perspective

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• Meditation begins with a call that awakes us out of the coma of self-preoccupation. We are called, we are chosen. Meditation is our response to that call from the deepest center of our awakened consciousness...by letting to in meditation we learn how to love.

  John Main

  Self, Meditation, How To Love

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• A wound does not destroy us. It activates our self-healing powers. The point is not to "put it behind you" but to keep benefiting from the strength it has awakened.

  David Richo

  Healing, Grieving, Self

  David Richo (2002). “How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving”, p.252, Shambhala Publications

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• The natural purity of our mind is of no use to us if we are not aware of it,
  and if we do not integrate it with our moving mind.
  If we realize our innate purity, but only integrate with it from time to time, we are not totally awakened.
  Being in total integration all the time is final realization

  Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

  Moving, Meditation, Mind

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• Let us not seek to make it less monstrous, for our own convenience, our own sense of beauty, lest, awakened in one unthinkable hour, we are embarrassed by the miracle, and crushed by remonstrance.

  John Updike

  Christian, Miracle, Hours

  John Updike (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.49, Knopf

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• furious flutter awakened hummingbird heart hello hello love

  Megan McCafferty

  Heart, Hello, Hummingbirds

  Megan McCafferty (2007). “Second Helpings: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.354, Broadway Books

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• Within yourself lies the cause of whatever enters into your life. To come into full ralization of your own awakened interior powers is to be able to condition your life in exact accord with what you would have it.

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Lying, Able, Causes

  Ralph Waldo Trine (2014). “In Tune with the Infinite”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength. Once the mind and body have been awakened to their true potential, it's impossible to turn back.

  Henry Rollins

  Fighting, Bodybuilding, Iron Will

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• To live a present and awakened life, simply be responsive to the moment. It is very simple. If you are hungry, eat. If you are thirsty, drink. If you are lonely, call a friend for tea. If you are overwhelmed with too much company, then get away by yourself.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Lonely, Simple, Tea

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• How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause. Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us, thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?

  Sophie Scholl

  People, Giving, Doe

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• There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.

  Anna Katharine Green

  Artist, Two, Desire

  Anna Katharine Green (2016). “THE DETECTIVE EBENEZER GRYCE MYSTERIES – Complete Collection: 11 Mystery Novels in One Volume: New York Murder-Mysteries: The Leavenworth Case, A Strange Disappearance, The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow, Hand and Ring, That Affair Next Door, Lost Man’s Lane, The Circular Study, One of My Sons…”, p.701, e-artnow

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