Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth.
The longer I live the more I am convinced that neither age nor circumstance needs to deprive us of energy and vitality. We are at last awakening to the close relationship between religion and health. . . . our physical condition is determined very largely by our emotional condition, and our emotional life is profoundly regulated by our thought life.
The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.
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.
When there is spiritual awakening, you awaken into the fullness, the aliveness, and also the sacredness of now. You were absent, asleep, and now you are present, awake.
The more something upsets you, the more it is meant for you. When it no longer upsets you, it is no longer needed because the lesson is complete.
Some people are called upon to do great things externally in this world by creating some new structure that reflects their awakening consciousness. Other people are not called to go out into the world and create great big things externally. Their purpose is to let consciousness flow into whatever they do - to do everything in a sacred manner.
Human consciousness is now being drawn inexorably toward the same issues, the gaze of collective attention focused like never before.
True progress comes not through action, but through awakening.
We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.
I am the spirit of the morning sea, I am the awakening and the glad surprise.
Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.
When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.
The most important thing about translucent people is that their life has been deeply transformed by an awakening.
Mere isolation in an enclosing idea is not a release from conflict.
In the early days the Cubists' method of grasping an object was to go round and round it; the futurists declared that one had to get inside it. In my opinion the two views can be reconciled in a poetic cognition of the world. But to the very fact that they appealed to the creative depths in the painter by awakening in him hidden forces which were intuitive and vitalizing, the Futurist theories did more than the Cubist principles to open up unexplored and boundless horizons.
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.
If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
Spring time is the land awakening.