Awakening Quotes - Page 28

• Do solemnly swear to love, honor and obey my soul, my path to realization and relationship with a higher, deeper creative power, for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, from now and forever more.

  Alex Grey

  Forever, Creative, Soul

  Alex Grey (2008). “Art Psalms”, p.23, North Atlantic Books

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• Awakening is natural,delusion is not

  Gautama Buddha

  Mindfulness, Natural, Delusion

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• Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding.

  Peter Brook

  Drama, Understanding, Theatre

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• No effort is ever wasted, although some pay dividends later than you think. Do not imagine that you "wasted your time" because something didn't turn out right. There is no such thing as "waste" in the Universe. Everything - everything - yields benefit. It's true. And your life will show you this. So don't decry the "effort that failed." All things lead to your highest good. You just may not know it yet.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Thinking, Yield, Effort

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Apr 22, 2015

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• I could never stop drugs, I could never stop drinking, until I received my spiritual awakening.

  Mike Tyson

  Spiritual, Drinking, Drug

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Stop all physical activity and sit naturally at ease. Remain silent and let sound be like an echo. Do not think about anything look at experience beyond thought; open minded like space. Let go of control and stop and rest at ease in that state. Awareness without projection is the greatest meditation. Train and develop like this and you will come to the deepest awakening.

  Tilopa

  Letting Go, Thinking, Echoes

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• Everything that occurs in your life is an opportunity for awakening. There are no exceptions!

  Leonard Jacobson

  Opportunity, Life Is, Exception

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• The love and attention you always thought you wanted from someone else is the love and attention you first need to give to yourself.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Giving, Needs, Attention

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• The world is in the condition that it's in because the world is full of sleepwalkers.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, World

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.149, Penguin

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• Once renunciation and the awakened mind have been fully realized, the way to Buddhahood is clear. Liberation is complete and such liberated beings are then Bodhisattvas and Buddhas: "enlightened ones," or "empty dwellers." Their usefulness to others both before and after their physical death, is impossible to conceive. They are nothing but useful energy leading to liberation for all beings still caught in conditioned existence.

  Maura O'Halloran

  Mind, Way, Before And After

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• All arts lie in man, though not all are apparent. Awakening brings them out. To be taught is nothing; everything is in man waiting to be awakened.

  Paracelsus

  Art, Lying, Men

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• According to the law of nature, wherever there is an awakening of a new and stronger life, there it tries to conquer and take the place of the old and the decaying. Nature favours the dying out of the unfit and the survival of the fittest. The final result of such conflict between the priestly and the other classes has been mentioned already.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Law, Class, Survival

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1844, Manonmani Publishers

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• You see, no one can teach anybody. The teacher spoils everything by thinking that he is teaching. Thus Vedanta says that within man is all knowledge-even in a boy it is so-and it requires only an awakening, and that much is the work of a teacher.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Teacher, Teaching, Boys

  Swami Vivekananda “My Idea of Education”, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• True awakening involves embracing every aspect of yourself with love and acceptance, including everything you have been denying, hiding or trying to fix. To deny these things is a judgment of them and judgment will keep you forever imprisoned within separation.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Acceptance, Forever, Trying

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• Majestic and stately as Conrad Richter''s Awakening Land Trilogy, Evangeline is a big book from a big mind.

  Katharine Weber

  Book, Land, Mind

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• So the best marriages and the deepest relationships with God grow out of the startling discovery that there is nothing one can do to earn love, and even more startling, that there is also nothing one can do to unlearn it, or to keep oneself from being loved. This is a religious awakening that is utterly different from any other religious experience, no matter how profoundly spiritual it may seem.

  Mike Mason

  Love, Spiritual, Religious

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• The chaos of the mind cannot constitute a reply to the providence of the universe. All it can be is an awakening in the night, where all that can be heard is anguished poetry let loose.

  Georges Bataille

  Night, Mind, Chaos

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• What we want now is an immense awakening of Râjasika energy, for the whole country is wrapped in the shroud of Tamas. The people of this land must be fed and clothed-must be awakened -must be made more fully active. Otherwise they will become inert, as inert as trees and stones. So, I say, eat large quantities of fish and meat, my boy!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Boys, Land

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• Today the West is awakening to its wants; and the "true self of man and spirit" is the watchword of the advanced school of Western theologians. The student of Sanskrit philosophy knows where the wind is blowing from, but it matters not whence the power comes so longs as it brings new life.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Philosophy, School, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1743, Manonmani Publishers

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• I surround myself with authentic and loving people who share my journey of personal growth and awakening.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Journey, People, Growth

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• Of course we can always imagine more perfect conditions, how it should be ideally, how everyone should behave. But it is not our task to create an ideal. It's our task to see how it is, and to learn from the world as it is. For the awakening of the heart, conditions are always good enough.

  Ajahn Sumedho

  Heart, Perfect, Tasks

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• When we set our hearts on knowing the truth, we assist one another in the long tender work of awakening. When the story is right, and the people we love are waiting to listen, we tell each other how to live.

  Mark Matousek

  Heart, Knowing, Long

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• I have all the support I need to simply relax and be with the transitional, in-process quality of my life. I have all I need to engage in the process of awakening.

  Pema Chodron

  Support, Relax, Quality

  Pema Chodron (2012). “Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change”, p.18, Shambhala Publications

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• Pray unceasingly that all denial be stripped from your mind. Pray that something miraculous be born within us all. Give everything you have. Do not wait another day.
  Lay your hours and intellect, your heart and passion, upon the altar of self-transformation and collective awakening. Begin now: pray, believe, trust and act.

  Ann Mortifee

  Believe, Passion, Heart

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• You are the light of the world. You are the
  consciousness that illuminates the world. Know yourself as that, and that's
  freedom, liberation, awakening, the end of suffering and madness. And it's
  happening right here.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Light, Suffering, World

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Jul 08, 2010

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