Abraham Maslow
Psychologist
"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself."
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Awakening
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Plato
Philosopher
"The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person."
Lewis Grizzard
Author, Humorist
"Spring time is the land awakening."
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Philosopher, Speaker
"Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict."
Thomas Merton
Writer, Monk
"Before we can realize who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person we think we are, here and now, is at best an impostor and a stranger."
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"Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life."
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"Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder."
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"Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening."
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"When you catch on to your awakening, the world does not change. You just see it differently, that's all. You acquire a feeling of immortality. A feeling of divine bliss, so to speak, when things no longer have the power to affect you."
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"How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream."
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"On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts."
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"Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is."
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"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."
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"The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening"
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"A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us."
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"To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness."
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"When you succeed in awakening the Kundalini, so that it starts to move out of its mere potentiality, you necessarily start a world which is totally different from our world. It is the world of eternity."
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"I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love."
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"Most people like to live in illusions."
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"The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not."
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"Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge."
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"The secret of awakening is to unconditionally accept this moment as it is."
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"Evolution usually occurs in response to a crisis situation, and we now are faced with such a crisis situation. This is why there is indeed an enormous acceleration in the awakening process of our species."
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"Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is."
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"Awakening into love is a lifelong path."
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