Awakening Quote by Jessamyn West

“We must learn to realize that the love of God seeks us in every situation, and seeks our good. His inscrutable love seeks our…

— Thomas Merton

Only if divine love burns in your heart can you awaken in a state of readiness, shaking off the paralyzing sleep that will overcome…

— Basilea Schlink

“He dreams he is happy; that his corporeal nature has changed; or at least that he has flown off upon a purple cloud of…

— Comte de Lautréamont

What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.

— Franz Grillparzer

“Living the awake life requires trusting God, listening to His still small voice and acting in spite of fear. When I awake to the…

— Pam Malow-Isham

this one whom habit of memory propels to the ground of his making, sleeper only the mortal sounds can sing awake, this blessing love…

— Galway Kinnell

“But before going to bed, he fell on his knees and prayed a long time. In his fervent prayer he did not beseech God…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as…

— John Bunyan

The one who woke up thinking he lives for nothing, has lost a night in vain.

— Mariana Fulger

When there is spiritual awakening, you awaken into the fullness, the aliveness, and also the sacredness of now. You were absent, asleep, and now…

— Eckhart Tolle

Since ancient times the term awakening has been used as a kind of metaphor that points to the transformation of human consciousness. There are…

— Eckhart Tolle

Humanity has been sleeping-and still sleeps-lulled within the narrowly confining joys of its little closed loves. In the depths of the human multitude there…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin