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Source: Radiance of Tomorrow: A Novel

“Action isn't a burden to be hoisted up and lugged around on our shoulders. It is something we are. The work we have to do can be seen as a kind of coming alive. More than some moral imperative, it's an awakening to our true nature, a releasing of our gifts.”

Kind Action Moral Alive Burden Awakening Shoulders Imperatives True Nature

Author:Joanna Macy

“I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.”

Spirit Materials Surprise Awakening Joyous

Author:Odilon Redon

“The modern world lies under a pervasive sense of anguish, of being abandoned, or at least experiencing God as absent. Yet events that seem to turn our lives upside down and inside out are part of God's redemptive plan, not only for us, but for the world in which we live. God may be preparing a great awakening for the world, if God can find enough people to cooperate in this mysterious plan.”

People Ifs World May Enough Seems Lying Turns Our Lives Plans Modern Events Down And Awakening Mysterious Abandoned Preparing Anguish Modern World Absent Upside Down Experiencing God

Author:Thomas Keating

“Life is a series of awakenings”

Life Is Series Awakening

Author:Sivananda

“The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening”

Doubt Greater Tree Awakening

Author:Albert Einstein

“The greatest and most blessed thing in the Germanic life is the mythical, sensitive, yet strong, awakening. The fact is that we have again begun to dream our own primal dreams.”

Facts Dream Life Is Strong Blessed Awakening Sensitive Primal

Author:Alfred Rosenberg

“Today a new faith is awakening — the Myth of the blood; the belief that to defend the blood is also to defend the divine nature of man in general. It is a belief, effulgent with the brightest knowledge, that Nordic blood represents that Mysterium which has overcome and replaced the older sacraments.”

Men Today Belief Blood Divine Overcoming Myth Awakening Replaced Sacraments Nature Of Man Divine Nature Nordic

Author:Alfred Rosenberg

“The only real service we can render to that which we perceive and interpret in phenomenal existence as 'others' is by awakening to universal consciousness ourselves.”

Real Existence Consciousness Universal Awakening Perceive Phenomenal

Author:Wei Wu Wei

“Upon retiring, sleep as if you had entered your last sleep. Upon awakening, leave your bed behind you instantly as if you had cast away a pair of old shoes.”

Ifs Lasts Sleep Behinds Bed Shoes Casts Awakening Pairs Retiring Behind You Cast Away Old Shoes

Author:Soyen Shaku

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

Needs Cities Awakening Complexity Thrive Fast Paced City Life

Author:John de Ruiter

“The more clean you are in awakening to your own being, the more you'll be able to move your own being toward others. Your evolution as awareness is in the purity of thatit's in the cleanness.”

Able Moving Awareness Evolution Clean Awakening Purity

Author:John de Ruiter

“Perhaps one of the most powerful keys to determining our experience of the months ahead comes from a shift in thinking that invites us beyond asking, 'What can I get from the world that exists,' to asking, 'What can I offer to the world that is awakening?' The way we answer this question as individuals becomes our collective answer to what comes next.”

Thinking World Way Next Individual Answers Powerful Keys Months Future Offers Experience Asking Awakening Collectives Most Powerful Invites Offering

Author:Gregg Braden

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”

Source: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

“This is the Easter message, that awakening is possible, to the goodness of God, the sacredness of human life, the sisterhood and brotherhood of all.”

Humans Goodness Messages Awakening Human Life Brotherhood Easter Sisterhood Sacredness Goodness Of God

Author:Anne Lamott

“False hope is clung to with all one's might and main, till a day comes when it has sucked the heart dry and it forcibly breaks through its bonds and departs. After that comes the misery of awakening, and then once again the longing to get back into the maze of the same mistakes.”

Heart Might Mistake Break Longing Misery Awakening Dry Get Back Break Through Mazes Same Mistakes False Hope

Book:Stories from Tagore

Source: Stories from Tagore

“When one speaks of awakening, it means de-hypnotizatio n; coming to your senses. But of course to do that, you have to go out of your mind.”

Mind Mean Courses Speak Awakening Senses

Author:Alan Watts

“You think of yourselves as humans searching for a spiritual awakening, when in fact you are spiritual beings attempting to cope with a human awakening. Seeing yourselves from the perspective of the spirit within will help you to remember why you came here and what you came here to do.”

Thinking Humans Facts Helping Remember Spiritual Spirit Seeing Perspective Awakening Attempting Think Of You Spiritual Awakening Spiritual Beings

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“Those who look outside, dream. Those who look inside, awaken.”

Inspirational Looks Dream Awakening Dreamer Psychiatrist Spiritual Awakening

Author:Carl Jung

“Spiritual awakening - is becoming awake to the aliveness of this moment.”

Moments Spiritual Becoming Awakening Awake Spiritual Awakening

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Awakening and owning the dreams that God has placed in our hearts isn't about getting stuff or attaining something. It's about embracing who we are and who he has created us to be. In him. He is our dream come true, and the one true love of our life. But we can't love him with our whole hearts when our hearts are asleep. To love Jesus means to risk coming awake, to risk wanting and desiring.”

Heart Mean Whole Dream Jesus Stuff Our Lives Risk Awakening Awake Who We Are Dreams Come True Our Dreams Jesus Love One True Love

Book:Beautiful Now: 90 Days of Experiencing God's Dreams for You

Source: Beautiful Now: 90 Days of Experiencing God's Dreams for You

“Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world.”

World Spiritual Spirit Artist Sides Awakening Groove Spirit World

Author:Tommy Chong

“Your greatest awakening comes, when you are aware about your infinite nature.”

Infinite Awakening

Author:Amit Ray

“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.”

People World Eye Past Spiritual Eternal Awakening Opening Around The World Glorious Spiritual Nature

Author:Betty Eadie

“The awakening is the purpose. The awakening of the fact that in essence we are light, we are love. Each cell of our body, each cell and molecule of everything. The power source that runs all life is light. So to awaken to that knowledge, and to desire to operate in that realm, and to believe that it is possible, are all factors that will put you there.”

“Perhaps the single most powerful event facing humanity today is a great awakening on a planetary scale that has been millennia in the making. We humans are in the midst of a profound advance as a species to a higher form of global consciousness that has been emerging across cultures, religions and worldviews through the centuries. This awakening of global consciousness is nothing less than a shift, a maturation, from more egocentric patterns of life to a higher form of integral and dialogic patterns of life.”

“The sooner one develops compassion in this journey, the better. Compassion lets us appreciate that each individual is doing what he or she must do, and that there is no reason to judge another person or oneself. You merely do what you can to further your own awakening.”

Persons Reason Individual Compassion Journey Judging Appreciate Oneself Awakening No Reason

Author:Ram Dass

“When you recognize that there is a voice in your head that pretends to be you and never stops speaking, you are awakening out of your unconscious identification with the stream of thinking. When you notice that voice, you realize that who you are is not the voice - the thinker - but the one who is aware of it.”

Thinking Voice Realizing Freedom Who You Are Awakening Streams Unconscious Thinker Be You Identification

Book:Stillness Speaks

Source: Stillness Speaks

“It is the dictate of history to bring to the fore the kind of leaders who seize the moment, who cohere the wishes and aspirations of the oppressed. Such was Steve Biko, a fitting product of his time; a proud representative of the re-awakening of a people.”

People Kind Moments Wish Leader Products Proud Awakening Aspiration Representatives Oppressed Fitting Seize The Moment Biko

Book:Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

“The people of God are not merely to mark time, waiting for God to step in and set right all that is wrong. Rather, they are to model the new heaven and new earth, and by so doing awaken longings for what God will someday bring to pass.”

Source: Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud

“The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person.”

Humans Persons Soul Life Is Privilege Awakening Human Life Midwife

Author:Plato

“A spiritual intention is a resounding YES to awakening to your fullest potential. It may include several of your life structures: mental, emotional, financial, relational - because there is no aspect of your life that is not spiritual.”

Inspirational May Spiritual Emotional Aspect Structure Intention Financial Awakening

Author:Michael Beckwith

“The divine awakening produces in the soul of the perfect a flame of love which is a participate of that living flame which is the Holy Spirit Himself...this is the operation of the Holy Spirit in the soul that is transformed in love.”

Soul Spirit Perfect Produce Divine Holy Awakening Operations Flames Holy Spirit Transformed

Author:John of the Cross

“The way of awakening and freedom requires that we ask ourselves, with all of the earnestness, honesty, and humility at our command, just this one fundamental question: 'Am I willing to live this moment with as much attention and affection as possible, or am I going to do something else?'”

Way Life Moments Asks Attention Honesty Humility Willing Fundamentals Affection Awakening Command Earnestness

Author:Scott Morrison

“The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not.”

Self Path Becoming Who You Are Awakening Unbecoming Becoming Who You Are

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“Our original nature is...void, omnipresent, silent, pure; it is glorious and mysterious peaceful joy - and that is all. Enter deeply into it by awakening yourself.”

Spiritual Joy Pure Originals Silent Awakening Mysterious Peaceful Glorious Void

Author:Huangbo Xiyun

“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.”

Memories Vision Awakening Pleasant Pleasant Memories

Author:Huston Smith

“When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children.”

Children Moments Night Chance Awareness Bird Awakening Autumn Awakened Newness Descending Grove

Book:New Seeds of Contemplation

Source: New Seeds of Contemplation

“I am the spirit of the morning sea, I am the awakening and the glad surprise.”

Spirit Morning Sea Surprise Awakening Glad Surprising

Book:Five Books of Song

Source: Five Books of Song

“Psychology, so dedicated to awakening human consciousness, needs to wake itself up to one of the most ancient human truths: we cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet.”

Needs Humans Consciousness Psychology Planets Ancient Awakening Dedicated Human Consciousness

Author:James Hillman

“At last He is healed of his self-doubt. Now what is happening ? He is awakening To his souls ecstasy-sun.”

Soul Self Lasts Sun Doubt Happenings Awakening Ecstasy Healed Self-doubt

Author:Sri Chinmoy

“Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening.”

Doubt Awakening Questioning Thorough Satori

Author:Hakuin Ekaku

“It is not a pumping-in from the outside that gives wisdom; it is the power and extent of your inner receptivity that determines how much you can attain of true knowledge, and how rapidly. You can quicken your evolution by awakening and increasing the receptive power of your brain cells.”

Giving Brain Evolution Determine Awakening Cells Receptive True Knowledge Receptivity Brain Cells

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.”

Ifs Firsts May Has Beens Grows Path Tree Prove Late Defeat Seeds Awakening Boundaries Resistance Despite Granted Too Late Formulas Resurrection Nevertheless Doomed Ugliness

Book:Flight to Arras

Source: Flight to Arras

“The offering up or cleaning up ego stuff is called purification. Purification is the act of letting go. This is done out of discriminative awareness. That is, you understand that you are an entity passing through a life in which the entire drama is an offering for your awakening.”

Done Stuff Awareness Drama Letting Go Ego Awakening Passing Passings Offering Entity Cleaning Passing Through Purification Cleaning Up

Author:Ram Dass

“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.”

Heart Creativity Path Fields Source Offers Yoga Awakening Fulfillment Abundance

Author:David Simon

“Your life, all of your life, is your path to awakening. By resisting or not dealing with its challenges, you stay asleep to Reality. Pay attention to what life is trying to reveal to you. Say yes to its fierce, ruthless, and loving grace.”

Trying Reality Life Is Challenges Pay Attention Path Grace Awakening Pay Attention Fierce Ruthless Resisting Dealing With It

Author:Adyashanti

“There's something in everybody that longs for that awakening to be more true to yourself.”

Awakening True To Yourself

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“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.”

World Mind Prison Awakening Daring Liberating

Author:Leonard Jacobson

“Shy gold begins to peep through the sombre green - the wattle's wedding dress - and Spring is near. Then suddenly it seems, one golden morning, the Bush awakes, a living thing. Flowers bloom, birds sing, and all the world puts on its gayest dress to greet the laughing Spring.”

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