Awakening Quotes - Page 9

• Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.

  Maria Montessori

  Mind, Firsts, Imitation

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• When I write about "realizations," I am describing a state in which a practitioner has wisdom of who she or he is, and has embodied that wisdom; it has become integrated into daily life, thoughts, and activities. We often view "awakening" as first step towards such realization. Awakening can occur in the blink of an eye, frequently through the direct, heart-opening (heart-breaking) transmission of grace from an awakened teacher.

  Russell Targ

  Teacher, Writing, Heart

  Russell Targ (2010). “Limitless Mind: A Guide to Remote Viewing and Transformation of Consciousness”, p.15, New World Library

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• I personally believe in some sort of divine order - or energy. I do believe that everything happens for a reason. I do think that when something bad happens to someone it's with the purpose of awakening them. I do think there is some force behind that. I don't think there are accidents.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Believe, Thinking, Divine Order

  Interview with Ellsworth Kelly, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2011.

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• Wine lovers all speak of their First Time, a quasi-spiritual moment of awakening to wine's wonderment. After that, it's a life sentence. I've seen it happen to even the most confirmed beer sluggers.

  Jennifer Rosen

  Spiritual, Wine, Beer

  Jennifer Rosen (2006). “The Cork Jester's Guide to Wine: An Entertaining Companion for Tasting It, Ordering It and Enjoying It”, p.13, Clerisy Press

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• Do not seek the answers. Let the answers find you.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Answers, Spirituality

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• A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled, down, down to the water

  Kate Chopin

  Air, Wings, Broken

  Kate Chopin (2016). “The Awakening”, p.155, Kate Chopin

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• At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.

  Hakuin Ekaku

  Lying, Doubt, Bottom

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• You can measure the depth of a person's awakening by how they serve others

  Kukai

  Depth, Persons

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• Life is a dream and death an awakening.

  Laurent Angliviel de la Beaumelle

  Life, Dream, Life Is

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• Since ancient times the term awakening has been used as a kind of metaphor that points to the transformation of human consciousness. There are parables in the New Testament that speak of the importance of being awake, of not falling back to sleep.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Fall, Sleep, Transformation

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• Evolution usually occurs in response to a crisis situation, and we now are faced with such a crisis situation. This is why there is indeed an enormous acceleration in the awakening process of our species.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Evolution, Process, Enormous

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• For many people, illness - loss of health - represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness of your own mortality, the greatest loss of all.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Loss, Serious Illness, People

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• The nature of spiritual awakening is frequently misunderstood. The adoption of spiritual beliefs, seeing visions of God or celestial beings, the ability to channel, to heal, to foretell the future, or other paranormal powers - all such phenomena are of value and are not to be dismissed, but none of them is in itself indicative of spiritual awakening in a person who experiences them.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Adoption, Misunderstood

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• When there is spiritual awakening, you awaken into the fullness, the aliveness, and also the sacredness of now. You were absent, asleep, and now you are present, awake.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Fullness, Sacredness

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Mean, Reform

  Mahatma Gandhi (1988). “Gandhi on Women: Collection of Mahatma Gandhi's Writings and Speeches on Women”

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• Humanity as a whole has already gone through unimaginable suffering, mostly self-inflicted, the culmination of which was the 20th century with its unspeakable horrors. This collective suffering has brought upon a readiness in many human beings for the evolutionary leap that is spiritual awakening.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Self, Humanity

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• Always maintain the attitude of a student. If you think you've done learning, bitterness sets in, but if you have more to achieve every day, in any arena, that makes each morning's awakening full of potential and cheery portent.

  Nick Offerman

  Morning, Attitude, Thinking

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. August 31, 2012.

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• A teacher or teaching is not essential for spiritual awakening, but they save time.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Teacher, Teaching

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• For most people, spiritual awakening is a gradual process. Rarely does it happen all at once. When it does, though, it is usually brought about by intense suffering.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, People, Suffering

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• Once the awakening happens, with it comes the realization that suffering is unnecessary now. You have reached the end of suffering because you have transcended the world. It is the place that is free of suffering. This seems to be everybody's path. Perhaps it is not everybody's path in this lifetime, but it seems to be a universal path. Even without a spiritual teaching or a spiritual teacher, I believe that everybody would get there eventually. But that could take time.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Teacher, Believe

  Source: home.online.nl

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• Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Reactions, Significance

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1993). “The Meditative Mind”, p.24, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

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• Our business is to wake up. We have to find ways in which to detect the whole of reality in the one illusory part which our self-centered consciousness permits us to see. We must not live thoughtlessly, taking our illusion for the complete reality, but at the same time we must not live too thoughtfully in the sense of trying to escape from the dream state. We must be continuously on watch for ways in which we may enlarge our consciousness.

  Aldous Huxley

  Dream, Reality, Self

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• As long as you ask questions you are breaking through, but the moment you begin to accept, you are psychologically dead. So right through life don't accept a thing, but inquire, investigate. Then you will find that your mind is something really extraordinary, it has no end, and to such a mind there is no death.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Long, Mind

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1970). “Think on these things”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Turmoil is a call for awakening. Every challenge, great or small, is moving you to look deeper and draw forth the highest in you. You're never given a challenge beyond your ability to meet and master. You'll rise above every circumstance because you're greater than any circumstance.

  Alan Cohen

  Moving, Challenges, Looks

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• The majority of people are not awake; it is only here and there that we find one even partially awake. Practically all of us, as a result, are living lives that are unworthy almost the name of lives, compared to those we might be living, and that lie within our easy grasp. While it is true that each life is in and of Divine Being, hence always one with it, in order that this great fact bear fruit in individual lives, each one must be conscious of it; he or she must know it in thought, and then live continually in this consciousness.

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Lying, Live Life, Order

  Ralph Waldo Trine (2013). “The Wisdom of Ralph Waldo Trine”, p.392, Simon and Schuster

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