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Pema Chodron Buddhist Teacher, Author
Awakening

"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."

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Woody Allen Director, Actor, Writer
Awakening

"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."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Awakening

"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."

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Alan Watts Philosopher, Writer
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."

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Alan Watts Philosopher, Writer
Awakening

"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."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Awakening

"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."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Awakening

"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."

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