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Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements. -- Giacomo Puccini
It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful. -- Adrienne Rich
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. -- Aleister Crowley
Awakening is natural,delusion is not -- Gautama Buddha
Awakening into love is a lifelong path. -- David Simon
Awakening is the purpose that enfolds all purposes. -- Stephen Batchelor
Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought. -- Eckhart Tolle
Awakening is dynamic, Constantly evolving in accordance with life's realities -- Taitetsu Unno
The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape. -- Ban Ki-moon
Awakening others is an impossible endeavor until I myself am awakened. -- Pooja Ruprell
May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers. -- Nhat Hanh
Awakening Call: You're Not in love if it carries a burden. -- Brook Tesla
Awakening is not something you achieve. It is something you relax into. -- Leonard Jacobson
Awakening is not changing who you are, but discarding who you are not. -- Deepak Chopra
Awakening in the morning returns us to life, and to awareness of death. -- Mason Cooley
Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path. -- Tara Brach
Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us. -- Steven Tyler
Awakening is usually precipitated by the honest, sincere, inquiry into who you really are. -- Arjuna Ardagh
I know that some people think differently about pilots, but I really enjoyed shooting Awakening. -- Lucy Griffiths
I know that some people think differently about pilots, but I really enjoyed shooting 'Awakening'. -- Lucy Griffiths
The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational. -- A. N. Wilson
Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. -- Plato
Female, I give you fair warning: you are playing with fire" - Tegan to Elise (Midnight Awakening -- Tina St. John
The Seven Factors of Awakening are mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go. -- Nhat Hanh
Majestic and stately as Conrad Richter''s Awakening Land Trilogy, Evangeline is a big book from a big mind. -- Katharine Weber
I've known since day one of working on 'Spring Awakening' - back in 1999 - that it was special. -- Lea Michele
Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go. -- G. I. Gurdjieff
Awakening does not mean a change in difficulty, it means a change in how those difficulties are met. -- Mark Epstein
I worked consistently on Broadway from when I was 8 years old through 'Spring Awakening,' which I left in 2008. -- Lea Michele
I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. -- Isoroku Yamamoto
Awakening your spiritual self is like having a second childhood with faulty parents, broken bones and proverbial brussel sprouts." -- Christopher Hawke
Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world. -- Tommy Chong
Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous. -- Bruce Lee
When I was on Broadway, my most recent Broadway show was 'Spring Awakening,' and every night I did a topless scene. -- Lea Michele
One of my favorite things about 'Spring Awakening' is that it is enjoyable and important for both kids and adults to see. -- Lea Michele
Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
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
I started off in musical theater, yeah. It was one of my first jobs; it was in Spring Awakening in London, which was amazing. -- Jamie Blackley
I'm hoping to do more with my music. I did the stage musical 'Spring Awakening' recently and it reignited the love I have for singing. -- Janel Parrish
Awakening is about liberating yourself from the prison that is the world of the mind and daring to be here as all that you are. -- Leonard Jacobson
The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation. -- Woodrow Wilson
I saw in a dream a table where all the elements fell into place as required. Awakening, I immediately wrote it down on a piece of paper. -- Dmitri Mendeleev
All arts lie in man, though not all are apparent. Awakening brings them out. To be taught is nothing; everything is in man waiting to be awakened. -- Paracelsus
On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts. -- David Bowie
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
Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft. -- Eugen Herrigel
Awakening to who we really are is at the heart of yoga. . . .Yoga offers a path to this underlying field of being, which is the source of creativity, fulfillment, and abundance. -- David Simon
Soon we shall discover that the temple of all humanity is nothing less that the Temple of the Living God!" ~ Chapter One, "The Awakening" ~ Discovering the Bliss of your True Divine Reality -- Linda De Coff
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
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
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. -- Adyashanti
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
Love is how it feels to recognize our essential unity. Awakening to oneness is the experience of Big Love. Knowing you are one with all, you find yourself in love with all. -- Timothy Freke
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. -- Adyashanti
Author conveys contemporary respect for Methodist preachers who rode the circuit of frontier settlements to put themselves at risk for the Gospel near the Second Great Awakening. They were dubbed 'God's light artillery'. -- Nancy Pearcey
Awakening is not a journey of discovering a distant land or a coveted secret, but rather, it is a journey of surrendering to what has always been present but shrouded in illusion and disillusion. -- Shavasti
I think we are making a mistake, a very big mistake if we look at what we call the Arab Awakening only by looking at the whole dynamics in political and not in economic terms. -- Tariq Ramadan
We need a revival in the country," Paul said. "We need another Great Awakening with tent revivals of thousands of people saying, 'reform or see what's going to happen if we don't reform.' -- Rand Paul
The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought. -- William Ellery Channing
So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person. [True Love. A Practice for Awakening the Heart.] -- Nhat Hanh
Awakening the mystical kundalini prematurely is dangerous, because unless you have refined your being, you'll get all screwed up, entities, weird powers ... strange things. That is why I don't teach anyone how to open up the chakras. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Awakening of Western thought will not be complete until that thought steps outside itself and comes to an understanding with the search for a world-view as this manifests itself in the thought of mankind as a whole. -- Albert Schweitzer
Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it. -- G. I. Gurdjieff
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
I have been involved with 'Spring Awakening' for six years. I am 20 now - I just turned 20 in August - and I originally auditioned when I was 14 years old. I auditioned for Michael Mayer, Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater. -- Lea Michele
A great Awakening has begun. People around the world are opening their eyes to their own spiritual natures. They are beginning to see who they truly are and what they have always been-beings with an eternal past and a glorious future. -- Betty Eadie
I always try to avoid looking at the section where my books would be shelved, but I do know that my most reliable neighbor to the right is Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening', which is dispiriting. That's a book I don't want to re-read. -- Susan Choi
The Myth is the Myth of the Blood, which, under the sign of the Swastika, released the World Revolution. It is the Awakening of the Soul of the Race, which, after a period of long slumber, victoriously put an End to Racial Chaos. -- Alfred Rosenberg
When 'The Awakening' was published it was considered so scandalous it was banned in the author's home-town library, and she herself was barred from the Fine Arts Club in the same city. What the novel has to offer, among other things, is honesty. -- Jane Smiley
Betty's a good Muslim woman and wife. I don't imagine many other women might put up with the way I am. Awakening this brainwashed black man and telling this arrogant, devilish white man the truth about himself, Betty understands, is a full-time job -- Malcolm X
Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening. -- G. I. Gurdjieff
Stop all delays, all seeking and all striving. Put down your concepts, ideas and beliefs. For one instant be still and directly encounter the silent unknown core of your being. In that instant Freedom will embrace you and reveal the Awakening that you are. -- Adyashanti
Awakening is the ultimate of religion. Religion is, not really, in believing something outside of your being. It is not in believing or following some authoritative figure, the church, temple, organization or any ideological system of belief. Religion is trusting in what is eternal within you. -- Banani Ray
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
I did a 20-minute selection of scenes from the play 'Spring Awakening' in college, well before the musical came around, so when the musical was becoming a hot thing, and I was reading interviews with Duncan Sheik about how he came to do the music, I think it's interesting. -- Allison Tolman
In my book, the Arab Awakening, I talk about the fact that we have to move from this. All the contemporary ideologies of political Islam have been based on the nation state. The nation state is very problematic but I'm not sure if we have an alternative political model. -- Tariq Ramadan
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
On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative patter. Design was recreation! ...The virtue of all this lay in the awakening of the childmind to rhythmic structure in Nature - giving the child a sense of innate cause-and-effect otherwise far beyond child-comprehension. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped. -- Patty Hearst
If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing. -- Gail Sheehy
Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation. -- Meher Baba
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -- Anatole France
It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is. -- Christy Turlington
We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to reclaim our country, to defend liberty and to restore the Constitution. -- Ted Cruz
The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip. -- Wassily Kandinsky
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
You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again. -- Billy Corgan
We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us - a shared love of liberty, and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women. -- Ted Cruz
Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team. -- Phil Knight
That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person. -- Eckhart Tolle
Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up? -- Anna Deavere Smith
You can have a spiritual awakening and discover a new side of you at any age. And best of all, love can happen at any age. Life can just start to get exciting when you're in your 40s and 50s. You have to believe that. -- Salma Hayek
The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural... The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness and becomes white. -- Wassily Kandinsky
Don't be tossed right and left from the waves of your life. No matter what is happening to you, be in the present moment. Focus on what you need to do today to reach your short and long term goals so you can have a better tomorrow. -- Nancy Ebrahim
Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed. -- Ezra Taft Benson
When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the 'Ghost Rider' comic book in my little home in Long Beach, California, and I couldn't get my head around how something that scary could also be good. To me it was my first philosophical awakening - 'How is this possible, this duality?' -- Nicolas Cage
You know how a lot of people say, 'I lose myself in music,' or 'I like to escape,' but I want my music to be more of an awakening. I want it to make people to be aware of life; I don't want my music to be a distraction. I want to light a path. -- Jhene Aiko
I was born and grew up in Phoenix, and I left there when I was 17 to go to Interlochen Arts Academy - a boarding school in Michigan - for a year, and then I went to college for a year at The Boston Conservatory and landed the 'Spring Awakening' tour midway through my freshman year, which was pretty cool. -- Kimiko Glenn
If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die, rather it manifests in the form of compassion. That is universal love. It is not just a sentiment. It cannot be manifested merely by a shift in mental disposition. It can only come from inner cleaning, an inner awakening. -- Radhanath Swami
What is needed, is an awakening. -- Terence McKenna
Spring time is the land awakening. -- Lewis Grizzard
One thought cannot awake without awakening others. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Great doubt will eventually lead to great awakening. -- Rabia Basri
Complete health and awakening are really the same. -- Tarthang Tulku
Life is a dream and death an awakening. -- Laurent Angliviel de la Beaumelle
The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening -- Albert Einstein
Even loss and betrayal can bring us awakening. -- Gautama Buddha
Nothing reminds us of an awakening more than rain. -- Dejan Stojanovic
True progress comes not through action, but through awakening. -- Alan Cohen
The spirituality of the soul is awakening of spirit. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind. -- Maria Montessori
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream. -- Novalis
Healing is awakening to the perfection that already is ours. -- Baird T. Spalding
History is that nightmare from which there is no awakening. -- James Joyce
The awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step for mankind. -- Eckhart Tolle
The capacity for total wonder is the very substance of awakening. -- Daniel Odier
Only by awakening can you know the true meaning of that word. -- Eckhart Tolle
Your greatest awakening comes, when you are aware about your infinite nature. -- Amit Ray
The actual experience of awakening can only be in the present moment. -- Eckhart Tolle
Spiritual awakening - is becoming awake to the aliveness of this moment. -- Eckhart Tolle

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