"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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"Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind."
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"but whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself."
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"Pause and remember - Making the wrong assumptions causes pain and suffering for everyone."
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"He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world."
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"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."
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"Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dali."
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"Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have?"
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"The nonconformist here may be "beat down" by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind."
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"Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect."
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"Being discontented, we either seek a different job or merely succumb to environment...instead of causing us to question life, the whole process of existence."
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"Only by awakening can you know the true meaning of that word."
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"Through radical generosity, we are awakening in people an in built divine consciousness of His goodness."
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"Where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are."
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"A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her,—the light which, showing the way, forbids it."
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"We are awakening from the dream of isolation, from the dream of loneliness, and it's a terrible shock."
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