Awakening Quotes - Page 29

• True education is awakening a love for truth...opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life.

  David O. McKay

  Education, Eye, Soul

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• All manifest life seems to require a period of sleep, of calm, in which to gain added strength, renewed vigour, for the next manifestation, or awakening to activity. Thus is the march of all progress, of all manifest life - in waves, successive waves, [of] activity and repose. Waves succeed each other in an endless chain of progression.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Sleep, Progress, Next

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• The ground under the Bilva tree is very holy. Meditating here quickly brings about an awakening of the religious instinct. Shri Ramakrishna used to say so.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Religious, Tree, Instinct

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

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• The uplift of the women, the awakening of the masses must come first, and then only can any real good come about for the country, for India.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Uplifting, Country, Real

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

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• There is a true feminist movement in Buddhism that relates to the goddess Tārā. Following her cultivation of bodhicitta, the bodhisattva's motivation, she looked upon the situation of those striving towards full awakening and she felt that there were too few people who attained Buddhahood as women. So she vowed, 'I have developed bodhicitta as a woman. For all my lifetimes along the path I vow to be born as a woman, and in my final lifetime when I attain Buddhahood, then, too, I will be a woman.'

  Dalai Lama

  Motivation, Buddhism, People

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.292, Penguin Books India

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• The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening.

  Anne Lamott

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Self

  Anne Lamott (2012). “Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers”, p.22, Penguin

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• A huge number of people are going through the process of awakening, some in the early stages, some in later stages, and it's wonderful to see.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Numbers, People, Wonderful

  Source: jhaines6.wordpress.com

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• A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Inspiration, Men, Merit

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• If the Lord tarries, there may yet be a grass-roots awakening that will overflow all sectarian barriers. There are a host of good people... who long for a visitation from heaven in old-time power. The kindling wood is scattered all round in all the churches. May God help us to rake off the ashes, uncover the live coals and may He blow upon us with the breath of His Spirit!

  Vance Havner

  Blow, Roots, Long

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• Without collective awakening the catastrophe will come. I think people in the mass media, journalists, film makers and others, you can contribute to the collective awakening if you are awake and then your life will embody that awakening.

  Nhat Hanh

  Thinking, Media, People

  "The role of journalists and corporates in combating climate change" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2010.

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• We need a revival in the country,” Paul said. “We need another Great Awakening with tent revivals of thousands of people saying, 'reform or see what's going to happen if we don't reform.'

  Rand Paul

  Country, People, Reform

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• The awakening an artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others.

  Steven Pressfield

  Artist, Ruthless

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.20, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• I am obsessed with story. I had a late awakening in life. In college was the first time that I understood what you could do with a story and what a good novel is - literary value and subtext and irony and everything.

  Shane Carruth

  College, Stories, Firsts

  "DVD Re-run Interview: Shane Carruth on “Primer”; The Lessons of a First-Timer". Interview with Wendy Mitchell, www.indiewire.com. April 18, 2005.

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• Delusion and the awakening - both can come and go slowly or suddenly.

  Shenhui

  Delusion, Comes And Goes

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• Poetry is that magic which consists in awakening sensations with the help of a combination of sounds ... that sorcery by which ideas are necessarily communicated to us, in a definite way, by words which nevertheless do not express them.

  John Banville

  Art, Ideas, Poetry

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• As Razam so aptly demonstrates, a new kind of traveler is emerging-one that embarks into the mysterious and uncharted domain within, where they aim to conquer their own hearts. Written in the tradition of a great adventure narrative, Aya Awakenings is a timely story for a new emerging era.

  Yossi Ghinsberg

  Heart, Adventure, Stories

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• One-third of the world, it has been said, may be free- -but one-third is the victim of cruel repression--and the other one- third is rocked by the pangs of poverty, hunger and envy. More energy is released by the awakening of these new nations than by the fission of the atom itself.

  John F. Kennedy

  Envy, Energy, Atoms

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• Some people are called upon to do great things externally in this world by creating some new structure that reflects their awakening consciousness. Other people are not called to go out into the world and create great big things externally. Their purpose is to let consciousness flow into whatever they do - to do everything in a sacred manner.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Creating, People, Purpose

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• Chauvet Cave is rather like the awakening of the modern human soul or I would say the awakening of modern human culture. Because Neanderthal men who still rode the landscape parallel to the people who did these paintings didn't have culture. There's no evidence of culture, no symbolic depiction, no evidence of music, no evidence of sculptures, no evidence of religious beliefs.

  Werner Herzog

  Religious, Men, People

  "Cave of Forgotten Dreams (3D) - Werner Herzog interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Awakening in the morning returns us to life, and to awareness of death.

  Mason Cooley

  Life, Morning, Return

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• The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less and less vivid every time they occur, till at length the mind grows absolutely callous.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Mind, Vivid, Action

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• Where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are.

  Anne Lamott

  Restoration, Walks

  Anne Lamott (2013). “Help: The First Essential Prayer”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• The Seven Factors of Awakening are mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go.

  Nhat Hanh

  Letting Go, Joy, Mindfulness

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.76, Harmony

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• Social reform is not to be secured by noise and shouting; by complaints and denunciation; by the formation of parties, or the making of revolutions; but by the awakening of thought and the progress of ideas. Until there be correct thought, there cannot be right action; and when there is correct thought, right action will follow.

  Henry George

  Party, Ideas, Progress

  Henry George (2006). “Social Problems”, p.242, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Our media, which is like a planetary nervous system, are far more sensitive to breakdowns than to breakthroughs. They filter out our creativity and successes, considering them less newsworthy than violence, war, and dissent. When we read newspapers and watch television news, we feel closer to a death in the social body than to an awakening.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  War, Creativity, Media

  Barbara Marx Hubbard (2015). “Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential”, p.18, New World Library

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