Awakening Quotes - Page 26

• I've known since day one of working on Spring Awakening - back in 1999 - that it was special.

  Lea Michele

  Spring, Special, Known

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Spring Awakening's Lea Michele Plus News of LuPone, Kritzer and Gravitte". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. November 24, 2006.

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• Awakening into love is a lifelong path.

  David Simon

  Life, Love Is, Path

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• You get lost because you think there is somewhere to go. If you give up believing in a goal or a destination, then you cannot get lost. In the present moment, there is no destination.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Life, Giving Up, Believe

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• If you fully awaken, you will not know yourself. Understand this, and you will understand all.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Life, Know Yourself, Knows

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• The human drama is reaching its denouement. The great unveiling is approaching, a time when the power structures of the world begin to crumble and people of the heart sing out a new truth. Many voices are joining the chorus, many feet are walking the path, many minds are dreaming possibilities for a magnificent future. For beneath the crises that are looming at every level of civilization, the global heart is awakening, beating out the rhythm of a new and glorious dance, calling us to a better way of living.

  Anodea Judith

  Life, Dream, Drama

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• When we have many things within ourselves which are neither known nor accepted, then such things complicate our lives horrifyingly, and in fact provoke all sorts of situations which could be avoided through knowledge of ourselves.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Life, Facts, Accepted

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• As long as we are alive, we feel fear. It is an intrinsic part of our makeup, as natural as a bitter cold winter day or the winds that rip branches off trees. If we resist it or push it aside, we miss a powerful opportunity for awakening.

  Tara Brach

  Inspirational, Powerful, Rip

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• Each thing that exists remains forever, and that very existence of existence is proof of its eternity. But without that realization, which is the knowledge of perfect being, man would never know whether there was existence or non-existence. If eternal existence is altered, then it must become more beautiful; and if it disappears, it must return with more sublime image; and if it sleeps, it must dream of a better awakening, for it is ever greater upon its rebirth.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beautiful, Dream, Sleep

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• I got to college in '99, and I went to study literature and writing, and so within a couple years we had Bush elected, 9/11, we were at war, so I was sort of having my political and spiritual awakening at the same time I was becoming an adult, and that's a lot of stuff at once. I became very focused on the state of the world, and I started studying that stuff more, and I just had a real identity crisis. I couldn't even really just study literature.

  Gaby Hoffmann

  Spiritual, Couple, Real

  "‘Transparent’ star Gaby Hoffmann on nudity, child acting, and what scares her". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. September 22, 2016.

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• You're the only one who knows when you're using things to protect yourself and keep your ego together and when you're opening and letting things fall apart, letting the world come as it is - working with it rather than struggling against it. You're the only one who knows.

  Pema Chodron

  Struggle, Fall, Ego

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.126, Shambhala Publications

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• We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.

  Novalis

  Love, Dream, Literature

  Novalis (1891). “Novalis: His Life, Thoughts, and Works”

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• Liberalism and capitalism address themselves to the cool, well-balanced mind. They proceed by strict logic, eliminating any appeal to the emotions. Socialism, on the contrary, works on the emotions, tries to violate logical considerations by rousing a sense of personal interest and to stifle the voice of reason by awakening primitive instincts.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Voice, Mind, Trying

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.465, VM eBooks

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• Fantasy is not the literature of subversion of the status quo but of 'awakening to' the status quo.

  Vera Nazarian

  Literature, Fantasy, Subversion

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• In the next 30 years we can destroy our world. With the very same powers - spiritual, social, scientific - we can evolve our world. Our mission is to serve as catalysts for a planetary awakening in our lifetime, to take a non-violent path to the next stage of our evolution.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  God, Spiritual, Our World

  Barbara Marx Hubbard (1993). “The revelation: our crisis is a birth”

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• When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children.

  Thomas Merton

  Children, Autumn, Night

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, New Directions Publishing

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• Сertainly there are people for whom anti-depression medication has allowed them to use difficulty to wake up, and I don't deny that at all, but as usual with us human beings, we've overdone it. We are self-medicating ourselves away from the great awakening moments, and losing our coping skills and losing wake-up calls.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Self, Skills, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• O, You who are ever giving life to all life, moving all creatures, root of all things, washing them clean, wiping out their mistakes, healing their wounds, You are our true life, luminous, wonderful, awakening the heart from its ancient sleep.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Mistake, Moving, Heart

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• We cannot look upon our lives as dreams of a dreamer who has no awakening in all time. We have a personality to which matter and force are unmeaning unless related to something infinitely personal, whose nature we have discovered, in some measure, in human love, in the greatness of the good, in the martyrdom of heroic souls, in the ineffable beauty of nature, which can never be a mere physical fact nor anything but an expression of personality.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Life, Dream, Greatness

  Rabindranath Tagore (2010). “My Life In My Words”, p.163, Penguin UK

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• I have come to the conclusion that human beings are born with an innate capacity to triumph over trauma. I believe not only that trauma is curable, but that the healing process can be a catalyst for profound awakening - a portal opening to emotional and genuine spiritual transformation. I have little doubt that as individuals, families, communities, and even nations, we have the capacity to learn how to heal and prevent much of the damage done by trauma. In so doing, we will significantly increase our ability to achieve both our individual and collective dreams.

  Peter A. Levine

  Dream, Spiritual, Believe

  "Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body". Book by Peter A. Levine, 2005.

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• During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream.

  Zhuangzi

  Inspirational, Dream, May

  "Zhuangzi" by Zhuangzi,

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• A great measure of a man is how he reacts to a midnight awakening when there's no fire or burglar in sight.

  Kate Jacobs

  Men, Fire, Sight

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• This book out-lives, out-loves, out-fits, out-lasts, out-reaches, out-runs, and out-ranks all books. This book is faith producing. It is hope awakening. It is death destroying, and those who embrace it find forgiveness of sin.

  Arcturus Z. Conrad

  Bible, Christian, Running

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• Awakening to who we really are is at the heart of yoga. . . .Yoga offers a path to this underlying field of being, which is the source of creativity, fulfillment, and abundance.

  David Simon

  Yoga, Heart, Creativity

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• The capacity for total wonder is the very substance of awakening.

  Daniel Odier

  Substance, Wonder, Capacity

  Daniel Odier (1997). “Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• Your life, all of your life, is your path to awakening. By resisting or not dealing with its challenges, you stay asleep to Reality. Pay attention to what life is trying to reveal to you. Say yes to its fierce, ruthless, and loving grace.

  Adyashanti

  Reality, Grace, Challenges

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