Awakening Quotes - Page 15

• The aim of my teaching is enlightenment, awakening from the dream state of separateness into the reality of the One. In short, my teaching is focused on realizing what you are.

  Adyashanti

  Dream, Teaching, Reality

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions.  If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.

  Vernon Howard

  Perfect, Needs, Action

  "The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power". Book by V. A. Howard, 1967.

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• The nonconformist here may be "beat down" by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.

  William S. Burroughs

  Mind, May, Longing

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• ... consciousness is an ever-unfolding, deepening, and expanding process with no end point. We are infinite and complex beings, and our human journey involves not just a spiritual awakening, but the development of all levels of our being - spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical - and the integration of all these aspects into a healthy and balanced daily life.

  Shakti Gawain

  Life, Spiritual, Journey

  Shakti Gawain (2008). “Living in the Light: A Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformation: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.25, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Celtic Tiger portrays the oppression of a people and the tiger symbolises the awakening of their Spirit and their struggle for freedom.

  Michael Flatley

  Struggle, Thinking, Favourite City

  "Celtic Tiger" by Lizzie Guilfoyle, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The Renaissance of Europe did not take place in the 15th century. Rather it began when Europe learned from the culture of the Arabs. The cradle of European awakening is not Italy. It is the Muslim Spain.

  Robert Briffault

  Europe, Spain, Culture

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• Anger may bring extra energy, but it eclipses the best part of our brain: its rationality. The energy of anger is almost always unreliable.

  Dalai Lama

  Brain, Energy, May

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• Healing is awakening to the perfection that already is ours.

  Baird T. Spalding

  Healing, Perfection

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• Awakening is dynamic, Constantly evolving in accordance with life's realities

  Taitetsu Unno

  Reality, Evolve

  Taitetsu Unno (2010). “River of Fire, River of Water: An Introduction to the Pure Land Tradition of Shin Buddhism”, p.82, Image

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• In this world of plenty, a tiny baby, who does not yet understand the mystery of the world, is allowed to cry and cry and finally fall asleep without the milk she needs to survive.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Baby, Fall, Tiny

  Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty”, p.6, PublicAffairs

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• Can the level of wealth enjoyed by members of capitalist culture (remembering that it is 25 times greater, on average, than that enjoyed by citizens of two centures ago) be attained by all but a very few? And if it can be attained, what is the cost for everything else that we must sacrifice?

  Richard Robbins

  Sacrifice, Two, Average

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• The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change.

  Adyashanti

  Light, Mind, Needs

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing”, p.47, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Remember that this is not something we do just once or twice. Interrupting our destructive habits and awakening our heart is the work of a lifetime.

  Pema Chodron

  Heart, Remember, Lifetime

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.46, Shambhala Publications

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• Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity. [98 - Zenith trans.]

  Fernando Pessoa

  Morning, Stupidity, Zenith

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• If a child smiles, if an adult smiles, that is very important. If in our daily lives we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. If we really know how to live, what better way to start the day than with a smile? Our smile affirms our awareness and determination to live in peace and joy. The source of a true smile is an awakened mind.

  Nhat Hanh

  Life, Smile, Peace

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2010). “Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.6, Random House

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• Being vegetarian here also means that we do not consume dairy and egg products, because they are products of the meat industry. If we stop consuming, they will stop producing. Only collective awakening can create enough determination for action.

  Nhat Hanh

  Determination, Mean, Meat Industry

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• Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability to submit to certain absurd duties, and a natural result of the distorted, unbalanced education given to them. This laziness, which leads to an insuperable reluctance to learn, is, contrary to appearances, sometimes proof of intellectual superiority and a condemnation of the teacher.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Teacher, Children, Intellectual

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• She wasn't about to go down that road herself, which was a testament to her spiritual awakening and her commitment to sanity. It was a real blessing that she didn't follow me, because oftentimes, people go out together and one comes back and the other doesn't. Or both of them never do.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Spiritual, Real, Commitment

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• There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Loss, Mind, Decay

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1828). “Ladies' Magazine”, p.537

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• Although an increasing number of humans are undergoing a process of awakening, identification with thinking is still the prevalent state of consciousness. Thinking is potentially a powerful tool, but it has taken us over, and a lot of it is dysfunctional and negative.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Powerful, Taken, Thinking

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

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• The factors that contributed to my growth were many - finding someone who understood me, exploring the unconscious, awakening my latent love . . . but one star is brightest among all: the self. I found the source of livingness inside me, something I didn't even know existed.

  Piero Ferrucci

  Stars, Self, Growth

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• It is utterly impossible to divorce the story of student awakenings from the course of missions in countries overseas. From the beginning, one of the most immediate and dramatic effects of college revivals has been the recruitment of personnel for the work of Christ abroad.

  J. Edwin Orr

  Country, Divorce, College

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• By means of Invocation, the being awakens, and awakening becomes fullness. By means of balancing, fullness becomes internal wholeness. By virtue of exteriorized attention, internal wholeness becomes Communion. By virtue of self-forgetfulness, Communion becomes Union.

  David Truman

  Life, Mean, Self

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• No great spiritual awakening has begun anywhere in the world apart from united prayer.

  J. Edwin Orr

  Spiritual, Prayer, World

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• Complete health and awakening are really the same.

  Tarthang Tulku

  Life, Body

  Tarthang Tulku (1975). “Reflections of Mind: Western Psychology Meets Tibetan Buddhism”

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