I am the perpretor of my suffering - but only all of it.
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.
I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
The only way out is in.
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.
We are awakening from the dream of isolation, from the dream of loneliness, and it's a terrible shock.
Awakening is dynamic, Constantly evolving in accordance with life's realities
[The whole first year at university] was a great time for me and great time of awakening.
The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is.
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.
Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.
Awakenings are always terrifying as they force you to realize your past has been lived in confinement, the most disturbing part is when you recognize that the shackle holding you down are largely once you have placed upon yourself, the prison is self constructed
Can you really see and hear Him, or is He still the Unknown God to you? It’s time for an awakening.
Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help.
Liberty may be an uncomfortable blessing unless you know what to do with it. That is why so many freed slaves returned to their masters, why so many emancipated women are only too glad to give up the racket and settle down. For between announcing that you will live your own life, and the living of it lie the real difficulties of any awakening.
If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and honours, that I employ this power in the destruction of liberty and the diminution of commerce, let me awaken them from their delusion.
A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her,—the light which, showing the way, forbids it.
Сertainly there are people for whom anti-depression medication has allowed them to use difficulty to wake up, and I don't deny that at all, but as usual with us human beings, we've overdone it. We are self-medicating ourselves away from the great awakening moments, and losing our coping skills and losing wake-up calls.
The U. S. needs a strong techno brand like Awakenings, just pretty much pure techno.
Spiritual awakening is the difficult process whereby the increasing realisation that everything is as wrong as it can be flips suddenly into the realisation that everything is as right is it can be. Or better, everything is as It as it can be.