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.
Complete health and awakening are really the same.
Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.
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.
The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is.
Awakening into love is a lifelong path.
Don't change just so people will like you! Like yourself and your relationships will change. There are people who will love you for - YOU.
A huge number of people are going through the process of awakening, some in the early stages, some in later stages, and it's wonderful to see.
The Bosnian Genocide was something that triggered my consciousness and led to an awakening politically for me.
Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey!
Awakening is the purpose that enfolds all purposes.
There's something in everybody that longs for that awakening to be more true to yourself.
Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.
The journey of prayer is nothing more or less than a gradual awakening to the reality of recognizing what is already there.
The actual experience of awakening can only be in the present moment.
What is irreversible in the Arab world is this intellectual revolution, the awakening that we can get rid of dictators. That is here, and the people have this sentiment and this political power. They feel that they can do it, and it's still there. At the same time, we don't know what is going to happen. So to be very quick by saying, "Oh, revolutions and Arab Spring," and - you know, what I'm advocating is to take a cautious optimism as the starting point of our analysis and to look at what is happening.
He remained, weeks after awakening, in that period of early-morning consciousness that allows easy re-entry to dreaming. His limbs still tingled with the residue of sleep, and most days he wanted badly to allow it to overtake him again.
Vulnerability is a wonderful tool for awakening and for learning and for growing and for connecting.
At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.
I think what you have to realise is that our generation is the first generation since its sexual awakening has come into the world and realised that sex can mean, ultimately, death. That has had a very serious effect on social morals and on the way people deal with each other. As we approach the millennium, people are getting more and more confused and contact is getting more and more sanitised, so there's a lot more mental games being played.