Awakening Quotes - Page 7

After his great awakening, the Buddha continued to meditate and to devote himself to others; otherwise his vision would have receded into a pleasant memory.

You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening.

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.

Nothing reminds us of an awakening more than rain.

The translucent revolution is not only about more and more people having awakening, it's also about the way that awakening is embodied â€" and that's much more revolutionary, actually.

Awakening to the truth is a deep realization of what you are as an experience. What is it that is listening? What is it that is feeling? Feel it. Sense it. Welcome it.

My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.

What is needed, is an awakening.

The dance goes from realizing that you're separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are.

Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.

The Bosnian Genocide was something that triggered my consciousness and led to an awakening politically for me.

I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself.

History is that nightmare from which there is no awakening.

Buddha nature is not something that we possess, nor is it something we can be. It is the nature of things, just as they are. To realize our buddha nature, to live in accord with this awakening, is the truth that alleviates suffering in the world.

The actual experience of awakening can only be in the present moment.

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.

Where you find the attraction for lust and wealth considerably diminished, to whatever creed he may belong, know that his inner spirit is awakening.

What we usually call human evolution is the awakening of the divine nature within us.

The biggest awakening is the awakening from the childish deceptions and the invented tales of the religion.

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

I've known since day one of working on Spring Awakening - back in 1999 - that it was special.

Mere isolation in an enclosing idea is not a release from conflict.

Freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness.

The shaman is a self-realized person. She discovers the ways of Spirit through her inner awakening.

Self awakening enables you to see the human scene as it is, not as it appears to be, which frees you of its chaos.