#awakening

Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening. ↗

— Jack Kemp

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Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team. ↗

— Phil Knight

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

— Gail Sheehy

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Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Don't talk of Life as if its one big package of miseries - it is the very Essence within that passes through both you, and your enemies and every permissible illusion. Once you're opened to, and are awakened to your TRUE NATURE, fireworks light up your path, irrespective whether it is a "Tariqa", or a pathless one! ↗

— AainaA-Ridtz

#consciousness #life-lessons #path #life

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

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So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry ↗

— Jack Kerouac

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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

Once again, we are reminded that awakening, or enlightenment is not the property of Buddhism, any more than Truth is the property of Christianity. Neither the Buddha nor the Christ belongs exclusively to the communities that were founded in their names. They belong to all people of goodwill, all who are attentive to the secret which lives in the depths of their breath and their consciousness. (14) ↗

— Jean-Yves Leloup

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Nothing reminds us of an awakening more than rain. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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