Awakening Quotes - Page 3

• It is not until you awaken and become fully present that you will realize that you have not been present. It is not until you awaken that you will realize you have been asleep, dreaming that you are awake.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Life, Dream, Realizing

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• As you awaken to your divine nature, you'll begin to appreciate beauty in everything you see, touch and experience.

  Wayne Dyer

  Beauty, Spiritual, Appreciation

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jan 27, 2016

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• Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Sleep, Science

  "Culture and Value". Book by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, p. 5e, 1980.

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• However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.

  Paracelsus

  Dream, Everything Happens For A Reason, Leave Me Alone

  Paracelsus, George Rosen, Henry Ernest Sigerist, Clarice Lilian Temkin, Gregory Zilboorg (1941). “Four Treatises Together with Selected Writings”

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• It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

  Adrienne Rich

  Inspirational, Time, Pain

  1971 Talk delivered to Forum on'TheWomanWriter in the Twentieth Century'. Collected as'WhenWe Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision', in College English, Oct1972.

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• WE ALREADY HAVE everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement. All these trips that we lay on ourselves—the heavy-duty fearing that we’re bad and hoping that we’re good, the identities that we so dearly cling to, the rage, the jealousy and the addictions of all kinds—never touch our basic wealth. They are like clouds that temporarily block the sun. But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspiring, Block, Eye

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.1, Shambhala Publications

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• I look at tens of thousands of church leaders who still do need a bit of an awakening.

  Bill Hybels

  Leader, Church, Needs

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• If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear all at once.

  Karl Radek

  Country, Labour Movement, Disappear

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• You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.

  Birch Bayh

  Country, Rights, Years

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• I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

  Bryan Adams

  Adversity, Rude, Police

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped.

  Patty Hearst

  Kidnapped

  "The rebel without a cause". Interview with Sam Leith, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2008.

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• Recent action in Syria and Palestine also tell us that the awakening voices of democracy in those regions are occurring, and that those in that region are able to pursue it without being stifled by terrorists that are despotic.

  Judd Gregg

  Voice, Democracy, Able

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• The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

  A. N. Wilson

  Math, Insatiable Hunger, Facts

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• Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Spiritual, Heart, Thinking

  Sri Chinmoy (2015). “Beyond Within: A Philosophy for the Inner Life”, p.66, Aum Publications

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• A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

  Jessamyn West

  Love, Inspiring, Religious

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• Upon awakening in the morning, I wondered if the proceedings of the night before had been a dream. It was hard to believe that I was the world's heavyweight champion.

  Gene Tunney

  Dream, Morning, Believe

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• When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Time, Morning, Discovery

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• But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Dream, What Matters, Sake

  "Life Is a Dream". Play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, 1635.

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• The stopping of the Judicial courts, had been blended, in the minds of some people, with the redress of grievances considered only as a mode of awakening the attention of the legislature.

  George Minot

  People, Mind, Stopping

  George Richards Minot (1810). “The History of the Insurrections in Massachusetts: In the Year Seventeen Hundred and Eighty Six. And the Rebellion Consequent Thereon”, p.39, Boston : J.W. Burditt

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• If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and honours, that I employ this power in the destruction of liberty and the diminution of commerce, let me awaken them from their delusion.

  Robert Walpole

  Army, Liberty, Destruction

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• I don't want to be daft and say I had some spiritual awakening or something, but I really did come of age in Los Angeles, where we recorded the album. I had my own little house and my own little circle and I really got to feel how the city ticks.

  Melanie Chisholm

  Spiritual, Cities, Circles

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• My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform.

  Mike Farrell

  Dream, Struggle, Simple

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• If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?

  David Hilbert

  Years, Would Be, Firsts

  "Mathematical Mysteries: The Beauty and Magic of Numbers". Book by Calvin C. Clawson, p. 258, 1999.

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• At the dawn of the 19th century, the country was awakening to its enormous scope and variety.

  David Lavender

  Country, Dawn, Century

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• We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.

  Simone Weil

  Hurt, Horse, Pain

  Simone Weil (2009). “Formative Writings (Routledge Revivals)”, p.124, Routledge

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