Awakening Quotes - Page 22

• 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.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Freedom, Thinking, Voice

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.29, New World Library

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• The sooner one develops compassion in this journey, the better. Compassion lets us appreciate that each individual is doing what he or she must do, and that there is no reason to judge another person or oneself. You merely do what you can to further your own awakening.

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  Ram Dass

  Compassion, Journey, Appreciate

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• Perhaps the single most powerful event facing humanity today is a great awakening on a planetary scale that has been millennia in the making. We humans are in the midst of a profound advance as a species to a higher form of global consciousness that has been emerging across cultures, religions and worldviews through the centuries. This awakening of global consciousness is nothing less than a shift, a maturation, from more egocentric patterns of life to a higher form of integral and dialogic patterns of life.

  Ashok Gangadean

  Powerful, Culture Religion, Profound

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• The awakening is the purpose. The awakening of the fact that in essence we are light, we are love. Each cell of our body, each cell and molecule of everything. The power source that runs all life is light. So to awaken to that knowledge, and to desire to operate in that realm, and to believe that it is possible, are all factors that will put you there.

  Dolores Cannon

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• The greatest and most blessed thing in the Germanic life is the mythical, sensitive, yet strong, awakening. The fact is that we have again begun to dream our own primal dreams.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Dream, Strong, Blessed

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• Life is a series of awakenings

  Sivananda

  Life Is, Series

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• The modern world lies under a pervasive sense of anguish, of being abandoned, or at least experiencing God as absent. Yet events that seem to turn our lives upside down and inside out are part of God's redemptive plan, not only for us, but for the world in which we live. God may be preparing a great awakening for the world, if God can find enough people to cooperate in this mysterious plan.

  Thomas Keating

  Lying, People, Events

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• Revolution is an awakening, so is the spring! Spring is an awakening, so is the revolution!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Spring, Revolution

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• How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!

  Joseph Joubert

  Growing Up, Pain, People

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• Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

  Plato

  Love, Valentines Day, Art

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• Remember: whatsoever I am saying is not the thing that I want to say to you. Whatsoever I am saying has nothing to do with truth, because truth cannot be said. Whatsoever I am saying is nothing but a hammering. If you become awake, you will see the truth.

  Rajneesh

  Want, Remember, Truth Is

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• Those who seek liberation for themselves alone cannot become fully enlightened. Though it may be said that one who is not already liberated cannot liberate others, the very process of forgetting oneself to help others is in itself liberating

  Muso Soseki

  Helping Others, May, Forget

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• ...Suddenly normal wasn't good enough.

  Steven Kotler

  Normal, Good Enough, Enough

  Steven Kotler (2008). “West of Jesus: Surfing, Science, and the Origins of Belief”, p.183, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, as soon as I in a love relationship do not lead another person to himself, this love, even if it seems to be the most secure and ecstatic attachment I have ever experienced, is not true love. For real love is dedicated to continual becoming.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Real, Attachment

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• It is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians. In the same vein, my teachings are not meant to acquire followers or imitators, but to awaken beings to eternal truth and thus to awakened life and living.

  Adyashanti

  Christian, Buddhist, Teaching

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• We remember the surge and we remember the Awakening -- when the abyss of chaos turned toward the promise of reconciliation. By battling and building block by block in Baghdad, by bringing tribes into the fold and partnering with the Iraqi army and police, you helped turn the tide toward peace.

  Barack Obama

  Block, War, Army

  Remarks by the President and First Lady on the End of the War in Iraq, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 14, 2011.

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• I want to suggest to you that the day of the artists has come. That there are things about symbols and the genuine indirectness of art with integrity that can speak into a lost and stuck imagination. We are awakening the imagination of people who have become cynical about the old 'grand stories' that have done so much harm. We are sowing the possibility that the might be one which could actually set them free.

  Graham Cray

  Art, Integrity, People

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• I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.

  Odilon Redon

  Spirit, Surprise, Joyous

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• Action isn't a burden to be hoisted up and lugged around on our shoulders. It is something we are. The work we have to do can be seen as a kind of coming alive. More than some moral imperative, it's an awakening to our true nature, a releasing of our gifts.

  Joanna Macy

  Alive, Action, Moral

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• This days one must be careful to avoid awakening the pain of another.

  Ishmael Beah

  Pain, Be Careful, This Day

  Ishmael Beah (2014). “Radiance of Tomorrow: A Novel”, p.18, Macmillan

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• Sometimes people do go wrong. There is no judgment needed. Wrong will take a short time or a long time to make the individual aware that something is wrong, and that is the beginning of that person's awakening.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Long, People

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• At last there dawned the most beautiful day of all the days of my life. How perfectly I remember even the smallest details of those sacred hours! The joyful awakening, the reverent and tender embraces of my mistresses and older companions, the room filled with white frocks, like so many snowflakes, where each child was dressed in turn.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Beautiful, Children, White

  Saint Therese of Lisieux (2007). “The Story of the Soul”, p.59, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be

  Alan Watts

  Letting Go, Ego, Purpose

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• The soul is an embryo in the body of Man, and the day of death is the Day of awakening, for it is the Great era of labour and the rich Hour of creation.

  Khalil Gibran

  Men, Soul, Body

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• To stay with that shakiness-to stay with a broken heart, with a rumbling stomach, with the feeling of hopelessness and wanting to get revenge-that is the path of true awakening. Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path.

  Pema Chodron

  Broken Heart, Spiritual, Buddhist

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.14, Shambhala Publications

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