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Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

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.

Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life.

Everything that occurs in your life is an opportunity for awakening. There are no exceptions!

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.

Fantasy is not the literature of subversion of the status quo but of 'awakening to' the status quo.

For many people, illness - loss of health - represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness of your own mortality, the greatest loss of all.

First, we become aware of that which is Divine around us. Then we become aware of that which is Divine within us. Finally, we become aware that all is Divine, and that there is nothing else. This is the moment of our awakening.

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.

For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped.

Great doubt will eventually lead to great awakening.

Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict.

Freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.

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.

Healing is awakening to the perfection that already is ours.

Having never left the house you are looking for the way home

However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.

History is that nightmare from which there is no awakening.

I am perceiving everyone, including myself, as an awakening being who is here to claim his or her birthright to the higher consciousness planes of unconditional love and oneness.

How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream.

I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.

Human consciousness is now being drawn inexorably toward the same issues, the gaze of collective attention focused like never before.

I am obsessed with story. I had a late awakening in life. In college was the first time that I understood what you could do with a story and what a good novel is - literary value and subtext and irony and everything.

I am the spirit of the morning sea, I am the awakening and the glad surprise.

I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.

If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear all at once.

If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?

I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.

If the president Donald Trump thinks he can fire Deputy Attorney General Ron Rosenstein and replace him with someone who will shut down the investigation, he's in for a rude awakening.

If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and honours, that I employ this power in the destruction of liberty and the diminution of commerce, let me awaken them from their delusion.

If you try to impress an alarm clock, it will simply tell you the time.

I have been involved with 'Spring Awakening' for six years. I am 20 now - I just turned 20 in August - and I originally auditioned when I was 14 years old. I auditioned for Michael Mayer, Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater.

Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.

In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger.

Intellect may arrive at certain inferences, but intellect is an unconsicous phenomenon. You are almost behaving sleepily. Intelligence is awakening, and unless you are fully awake, whatsoever you decide is bound to be wrong somewhere or other.

If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die, rather it manifests in the form of compassion. That is universal love. It is not just a sentiment. It cannot be manifested merely by a shift in mental disposition. It can only come from inner cleaning, an inner awakening.

In the search for reality, energy creates its own discipline. But mere discipline, without full comprehension of all this, has no meaning, it is a most destructive thing.

In this world of plenty, a tiny baby, who does not yet understand the mystery of the world, is allowed to cry and cry and finally fall asleep without the milk she needs to survive.

It is only by embracing the full spectrum of human consciousness that we can bring about a true awakening of the heart

It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself.

It's going to open up us to our galactic neighbors, to the energies and the life force energies that exist within the universes that we are all a part of - and they all are here, of course, supporting us in this transition for this aspect of our awakening. I think that is going to be a big shift.

It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is.

It seems to me that had I not known Dostoevsky or Nietzsche or Freud or X or Z, I should have thought just as I did, and that I found in them rather an authorization than an awakening. Above all, they taught me to cease doubting, to cease fearing my thoughts, and to let those thoughts lead me to those lands that were not uninhabitable because after all I found them already there .

It's kind of hard get outside of your own frame of reference. To one degree or another, we all go through our breakdowns and we can recognize our lives as a path to awakening or not. We can take our breakdowns as a way to sensitize us or as an excuse to blind and dull ourselves.

I worked consistently on Broadway from when I was 8 years old through 'Spring Awakening,' which I left in 2008.

It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken in others, that I decided to bring the West to the East through the medium of the Wild West Show.

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.