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• Many people who are going through the early stages of the awakening process are no longer certain what their outer purpose is. What drives the world no longer drives them. Seeing the madness of our civilization so clearly, they feel somewhat alienated from the culture around them. Some feel that they inhabit a no-man's-land between two worlds. They are no longer run by the ego, yet the arising awareness has not yet become fully integrated into their lives. Inner and outer purpose have not merged.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Running, Men, Land

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.194, Penguin

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• It seems to me that had I not known Dostoevsky or Nietzsche or Freud or X or Z, I should have thought just as I did, and that I found in them rather an authorization than an awakening. Above all, they taught me to cease doubting, to cease fearing my thoughts, and to let those thoughts lead me to those lands that were not uninhabitable because after all I found them already there .

  Andre Gide

  Should Have, Land, Doubt

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.276, Routledge

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• Female, I give you fair warning: you are playing with fire" - Tegan to Elise (Midnight Awakening

  Tina St. John

  Fire, Giving, Midnight

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• When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Spiritual, Sleep, Reality

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• The awakening passed from simple recognition of my need for God at the center of my life, to a depth where the will is stirred And that is a deeper place by far. That is the place of response, of unifying one's heart, mind, soul and feet around a decision.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Heart, Simple, Feet

  Sue Monk Kidd (1987). “God's Joyful Surprise: Finding Yourself Loved”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.

  Bruce Lee

  Dream, Self, Realization

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.177, Tuttle Publishing

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• For the growing number of people seeking to approach the ideas of Gurdjieff, Toward Awakening by Jean Vaysse offers reliable guidance, as well as evidence of the continuing vitality of this remarkable teaching. It may be counted as among the small handful of books that communicate something of what Gurdjieff brought.

  Jacob Needleman

  Book, Teaching, Ideas

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• It is the Fourth Instinct (the spirit - RJ) that urges us to exceed ourselves ... by awakening our intuitive selves, and striving to be all that we were intended to be. It takes us beyond self-centeredness and enables us to resist the combined forces of indifference and meaninglessness. It awakens us to a sense of responsibility for those most in need of our society as well as for that world that future generations will inherit.

  Arianna Huffington

  Responsibility, Self, World

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• The cultivation of generosity is the beginning of spiritual awakening. Generosity has tremendous force because it arises from an inner quality of letting go. Being able to let go, to give up, to renounce, and to give generously all spring from the same source, and when we practice generosity ... we open up these qualities within ourselves.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Giving Up

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• What is needed, is an awakening.

  Terence McKenna

  Needed

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• Life is perhaps best regarded as a bad dream between two awakenings.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Life, Dream, Two

  Margaret Loftus Ranald, Eugene O'Neill (1984). “The Eugene O'Neill Companion”, Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press

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• Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Sleep, Terrible, Interest

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• No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Dream, Men, Thinking

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• You will reach a point where you can finally go for an hour, or a day, or a week without painful reminders of absence and emptiness. Look for new awakenings. Be open to rebirth.

  Karen Katafiasz

  Grieving, Looks, Emptiness

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• This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.

  Victor Hugo

  Philosophical, Heaven, Soul

  Victor Hugo (1894). “The novels, complete and unabridged, of Victor Hugo”

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• but whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.

  Kate Chopin

  Inspirational Life, Awakened

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.208

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• For the first time his mind grasped the fact that when life has sentenced you to suffer, the sentence is neither a fancy nor a threat, but you are dragged to the rack, and you are tortured, and there is no marvelous rescue at the last moment, no awakening as from a bad dream. He felt it as a foreboding which struck him with terror.

  Jens Peter Jacobsen

  Dream, Mind, Suffering

  Jens Peter Jacobsen (2008). “Niels Lyhne”, p.45, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• All existing things upon this earth, which have knowledge of their own existence, possess, some in one degree and some in another, the power of thought, accompanied by perception, which is the awakening of thought by the effects of external objects upon the senses.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Perception, Degrees, Earth

  Augustus De Morgan (2014). “Formal Logic”, p.26, Cambridge University Press

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• The intellectual process must be stirred. A feeling for knowledge for its own sake must be engendered. Learning will then be an exciting adventure which few can escape, nor will many wish to. And it will bring the spirit to a great awakening which can likely last a lifetime.

  Julius Sumner Miller

  Education, Adventure, Feelings

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• Think in the name of Almighty God. We must first have a worldwide awakening of the public conscience, a spiritual revival, a moral regeneration, before there can be permanent peace and real economic recovery. To this end we do not need new laws, but a new spirit; we do not need a change of government, but a change of the human heart. There can be no peace, there will be no recovery without it. Therefore, with a change of heart, let's all make a new start.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  God, Spiritual, Real

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• Even if you have not awakened, if you realize that your perceptions and activities are all like dreams and you view them with detachment, not giving rise to grasping and rejecting discrimination, then this is virtually tantamount to awakening from the dream.

  Muso Soseki

  Dream, Views, Giving

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• It is only by embracing the full spectrum of human consciousness that we can bring about a true awakening of the heart

  Anodea Judith

  Heart, Consciousness, Spectrum

  Anodea Judith (2013). “The Global Heart Awakens: Humanity's Rite of Passage from the Love of Power to the Power of Love”, p.42, Red Wheel/Weiser

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• Liberty may be an uncomfortable blessing unless you know what to do with it. That is why so many freed slaves returned to their masters, why so many emancipated women are only too glad to give up the racket and settle down. For between announcing that you will live your own life, and the living of it lie the real difficulties of any awakening.

  Walter Lippmann

  Giving Up, Real, Lying

  Walter Lippmann, Julien C. Sprott (2015). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”, p.123, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• For a young man, sleep is a sure solvent of distress. There whirls not for him in the night any so hideous phantasmagoria as will not become, in the clarity of the next morning, a spruce procession for him to lead. Brief the vague horror of his awakening; memory sweeps back to him, and he sees nothing dreadful after all. "Why not?" is the sun's bright message to him, and "Why not indeed?" his answer.

  Max Beerbohm

  Morning, Memories, Sleep

  Max Beerbohm (2010). “Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story”, p.40, The Floating Press

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• You have been a very foolish boy, wasting your time dreaming of impossible things when you speak of Mr. Pontellier setting me free! I am no longer one of Mr. Pontelliere's possessions to dispose of or not. I give myself where I choose. If he were to say, 'Here Robert, take her and be happy; she is yours,' I should laugh at you both.

  Kate Chopin

  Dream, Boys, Impossible Things

  "The Awakening". Book by Kate Chopin, 1899.

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