Awakening Quotes - Page 8

Fantasy is not the literature of subversion of the status quo but of 'awakening to' the status quo.

I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.

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.

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.

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

Awakening is the purpose that enfolds all purposes.

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.

Intellect may arrive at certain inferences, but intellect is an unconsicous phenomenon. You are almost behaving sleepily. Intelligence is awakening, and unless you are fully awake, whatsoever you decide is bound to be wrong somewhere or other.

It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself.

In this world of plenty, a tiny baby, who does not yet understand the mystery of the world, is allowed to cry and cry and finally fall asleep without the milk she needs to survive.

Revolution is an awakening, so is the spring! Spring is an awakening, so is the revolution!

One thought cannot awake without awakening others.

Awakening is not something you achieve. It is something you relax into.

If you fully awaken, you will not know yourself. Understand this, and you will understand all.

Everything that occurs in your life is an opportunity for awakening. There are no exceptions!

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

Life is a dream and death an awakening.

What defines someone's music taste is their teens and early 20s. It's that combination of your sexual awakening and the music of the time, it fixes you forever.

The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant.

You will reach a point where you can finally go for an hour, or a day, or a week without painful reminders of absence and emptiness. Look for new awakenings. Be open to rebirth.

The only way out is in.

Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening.

The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding.

Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.

When we awaken, we cannot account for the time spent. We simply don't remember. About the only evidence we have of experiences while we were asleep is when we happen to remember a dream.