Awakening Quotes - Page 3

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.

Now don't think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is the beginning of a life lived from your true nature.

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.

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.

Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.

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.

Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist.

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.

Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.

Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.

Even loss and betrayal can bring us awakening.

Awakening into love is a lifelong path.

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

but whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.

Pause and remember - Making the wrong assumptions causes pain and suffering for everyone.

It is only by embracing the full spectrum of human consciousness that we can bring about a true awakening of the heart

Having never left the house you are looking for the way home

You need to bring your awakening into city life. Bring it into fast-paced complexity where it thrives.

Healing is awakening to the perfection that already is ours.

the more naps you take, the more awakenings you experience.

That higher awakening is called God-consciousness. In that condition, you will see that all the objects of the world are your own universal self.

He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.

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.

It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.

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