"We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening"
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"Ah, if I could realize, if I could forget myself and devote my meditations to the freeing, the awakening and the blessedness of all living creatures everywhere I'd realize what there is, is ecstasy."
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"Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions."
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"You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening."
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"After his great awakening, the Buddha continued to meditate and to devote himself to others; otherwise his vision would have receded into a pleasant memory."
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"The actual experience of awakening can only be in the present moment."
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"The dance goes from realizing that you're separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are."
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"The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life."
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"I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself."
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"What is needed, is an awakening."
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"Where you find the attraction for lust and wealth considerably diminished, to whatever creed he may belong, know that his inner spirit is awakening."
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"Freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness."
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"Of course, we are to pray for spiritual awakening, and in various ways we can do something toward it. But we must remember that neither Paul nor Apollos gives the increase."
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"Spiritual awakening - is becoming awake to the aliveness of this moment."
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"For a relationship to deepen, at some point the spiritual dimension needs to come in. You don't even need to be fully awakened for this to happen, but if it does happen it certainly means you are awakening."
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"Awakening is not changing who you are, but discarding who you are not."
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"I am the perpetrator of my suffering - but only all of it."
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"The ground under the Bilva tree is very holy. Meditating here quickly brings about an awakening of the religious instinct. Shri Ramakrishna used to say so."
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"All manifest life seems to require a period of sleep, of calm, in which to gain added strength, renewed vigour, for the next manifestation, or awakening to activity. Thus is the march of all progress, of all manifest life - in waves, successive waves, [of] activity and repose. Waves succeed each other in an endless chain of progression."
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"The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant."
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