Awakening Quotes

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.

I think there`s an anxiety in life when we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we`re complaining about the past; like somebody recently said to me, `Well, is your show (Rude Awakening) going to get picked up? Aren`t you concerned about that?` I said, `I don`t care. I don`t want to worry about that because worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen.` I want to trust that if it does, then that`s what`s supposed to happen and if it doesn`t get picked up, then that`s okay, too. It`s just a more peaceful way to live. Right now, in my life, I`m really striving for peace and more of a calm outlook.

I liked the hard-core truth of `Rude Awakening`. But when I first read it, I was scared of it. Part of me was, like, it`s so unattractive! Does she have to vomit on herself? Does she then have to fall in it? God, what`s going on here?! But I liked that it didn`t glamorize alcohol. And what`s admirable about Billie is that she`s a straight shooter. She doesn`t have a lot of pretense. It`s like, `Take me as I am. You like me, fine! You don`t, I don`t give a damn! There`s something quite empowering about somebody who doesn`t care what other people think. Billie is learning about herself. She`s recognized that she has a problem with drugs and alcohol, and she`s trying to straighten it out. - on playing Billie Frank in "Rude Awakening" (1998)

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

I think that there`s an awakening inside of me really honestly, and I honestly believe that the best work of my life is about to happen. I`m finding a balance in myself as an artist from the external and the internal, and so as a result the characters I play are going to be quite different. So what`s going to happen is that it`s going to lift up the characters I play, we`re going to start to see it and I think it`s going to change the face of my career. - 2006 quote.

It was like an awakening. - speaking about seeing Star Wars (1977) for the first time as a child.

I don`t want to be daft and say I had some spiritual awakening or something, but I really did come of age in Los Angeles, where we recorded the album. I had my own little house and my own little circle and I really got to feel how the city ticks.

I guess we saw those results. We just have to get better at what we do. As far as personnel, we have the guys to get it done. It was an awakening for us to realize we`ve got to get better.

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.

It`s exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

I look at tens of thousands of church leaders who still do need a bit of an awakening.

When we fall asleep, we withdraw our awareness from its hypnotic fascination with physical sensation, thereby enabling us to listen with our now awakening sixth sense.

What we hear while we are asleep continues to resonate with us upon awakening.

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.

For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped.

This is an awakening for me, ... I didn`t even know who Peter Vallone was.

To live this life, my friends, you have to have a genuine passion. Nothing artificial. To live this life, to love this life, you have to have a genuine passion. People think Kabir was so wonderful because he was uneducated and yet he said all these wonderful things. Do you think it would have been different had Kabir gone to Yale and Oxford? If so, you missed the point. The point isn`t whether he was educated or not, because, in the truest sense, he was very educated. More educated than most people. The point is that passion. Maybe you won`t be able to write like Kabir, but you can feel the same passion. Passion is the point. That love is the point. That feeling is the point. That is achievable by everyone sitting in this hall, and in the city of London, and on this planet Earth. That passion. That love. That awakening. That joy.