"The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is."
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"The awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step for mankind."
"Remember that this is not something we do just once or twice. Interrupting our destructive habits and awakening our heart is the work of a lifetime."
"The social potential movement is on the threshold of a mass awakening, seeking to carry into society what individuals have learned spiritually and personally."
"The true test of maturity is not how old a person is but how he reacts to awakening in the mid-town area in his shorts."
"Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist."
"From wonder into wonder existence opens."
"Even loss and betrayal can bring us awakening."
"We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake"
"The whole world opens when we accept this moment, this very moment."
"True progress comes not through action, but through awakening."
"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."
"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."
"Awakening is natural,delusion is not"
"To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship."
"There's something in everybody that longs for that awakening to be more true to yourself."
"A huge number of people are going through the process of awakening, some in the early stages, some in later stages, and it's wonderful to see."
"Since ancient times the term awakening has been used as a kind of metaphor that points to the transformation of human consciousness. There are parables in the New Testament that speak of the importance of being awake, of not falling back to sleep."
"Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey!"
"Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help."