#awaken

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing. ↗

— Gail Sheehy

#day #every #every day #grow #growing

Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, they’ll say you’re crazy and you’re blasphemous, and they’ll either put you in jail or in a nut house (which is pretty much the same thing). However if you wake up in India and tell your friends and relations, ‘My goodness, I’ve just discovered that I’m God,’ they’ll laugh and say, ‘Oh, congratulations, at last you found out. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#blasphemy #god #hinduism #jesus-christ #self

But now it was spring again, and spring was almost unbearable for sensitive hearts. It drove creation to its utmost limits, it wafted its spice-laden breath even into the nostrils of the innocent. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#desire #passion #spring #young-love #love

I love you." she whispered into the rough wool of his sweater. ↗

— L.J. Smith

#awakening #struggle #the #love

We must reject the artificial and embrace what is real and true: truth in food, community, relationships and self. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#awareness #eye-opening #mind-opening #reality-of-life #realization

Things that are Real are Given and Received in Silence. God has been everlastingly working in Silence, unobserved, unheard except by those who Experience HIS Infinite Silence. ↗

— Avatar Meher Baba

#experience

What we can imagine we can make real ↗

— Nadine May

#awakening #inspirational #novels #predictive #visionary-fiction

I called the world of phenomena an illusion, I called my eyes and my tongue and accident, valueless phenomena. No, that is all over; I have awakened, I have really awakened and have just been born today. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#inspiration #inspirational

The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero. ↗

— Maxwell Anderson

#essence #even #hero #play #regeneration

I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good. ↗

— Thomas Hooker

#beyond #confess #does #good #heart