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2. “One clings desperately to some vain hope, till a day comes when it has sucked the heart dry and then it breaks through its bonds and departs. After that comes the misery of awakening, and then once again the longing to get back into the maze of the same mistakes.”
Rabindranath Tagore
Hope, Despair, Awakening, Emotional Cycle, Self-deception
4. “Perhaps the scenes of travel conjure themselves up before me and pass and repass in my imagination all the more vividly, because I lead such a vegetable existence that a call to travel would fall upon me like a thunder-bolt.” Rabindranath Tagore Travel, Imagination, Existence, Longing, Awakening
12. “Yes I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the icy night of my spirit. Since that period I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight half of anxiety.” Edgar Allan Poe Love, Awakening, Nostalgia, Philosophical Insight, Emotional Complexity, Poetic Expression
15. “Arise from out the dewy grass! Night is worn, And the morn Rises from the slumberous mass. "Turn away no more; Why wilt thou turn away? The starry floor, The watery shore, Are given thee till the break of day.” William Blake Nature, Awakening, Renewal, Poetic Expression, Philosophical Encouragement, Cosmic Imagery
17. “I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reckon with himself.” Hermann Hesse Awakening, Self Awareness, Strength, Knowledge, Understanding, Introspection
18. “It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.” Hermann Hesse Morning, Joy, Nature, Beauty, Perception, Awakening
19. “Once all of the Self was overcome and had died, once every desire and every urge was silent in the heart, then the ultimate part of me had to awake, the innermost of my being, which is no longer Self – the great secret.” Hermann Hesse Self, Awakening, Desire, Silence, Inner Truth, Spiritual Journey
22. “She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him in new and resplendent colors, belonged to him, and spoke to him in his own language. And instead of merely winning a woman he embraced the entire world and every star in heaven glowed within him and sparkled with joy in his soul. He had loved and had found himself. But most people love to lose themselves.” Hermann Hesse Love, Transcendence, Awakening, Connection, Self Realization, Cosmic Unity
23. “He looked around, as if he was seeing the world for the first time. Beautiful was the world, colorful was the world, strange and mysterious was the world! Here was blue, here was yellow, here was green, the sky and the river flowed, the forest and the mountains were rigid, all of it was beautiful, all of it was mysterious and magical, and in its midst was he, Siddhartha, the awakening one, on the path to himself.” Hermann Hesse World, Beautiful, Awakening, Sensory Experience, Existential Realization, Personal Journey
26. “I thought I was a Christian but I’m not. I’m something else and I don’t know what. Everything I have ever taken for right and wrong these people have taught me – these same, these very people. So it’s me, it’s not them. Something has happened to me.” Harper Lee Spiritual Crisis, Moral Reflection, Personal Awakening, Spirituality, Reflection, Awakening
Awakening Quotes by Famous Authors
2. “One clings desperately to some vain hope, till a day comes when it has sucked the heart dry and then it breaks through its bonds and departs. After that comes the misery of awakening, and then once again the longing to get back into the maze of the same mistakes.”
Rabindranath Tagore Hope, Despair, Awakening, Emotional Cycle, Self-deception
4. “Perhaps the scenes of travel conjure themselves up before me and pass and repass in my imagination all the more vividly, because I lead such a vegetable existence that a call to travel would fall upon me like a thunder-bolt.”
Rabindranath Tagore Travel, Imagination, Existence, Longing, Awakening
12. “Yes I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the icy night of my spirit. Since that period I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight half of anxiety.”
Edgar Allan Poe Love, Awakening, Nostalgia, Philosophical Insight, Emotional Complexity, Poetic Expression
15. “Arise from out the dewy grass! Night is worn, And the morn Rises from the slumberous mass. "Turn away no more; Why wilt thou turn away? The starry floor, The watery shore, Are given thee till the break of day.”
William Blake Nature, Awakening, Renewal, Poetic Expression, Philosophical Encouragement, Cosmic Imagery
17. “I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reckon with himself.”
Hermann Hesse Awakening, Self Awareness, Strength, Knowledge, Understanding, Introspection
18. “It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.”
Hermann Hesse Morning, Joy, Nature, Beauty, Perception, Awakening
19. “Once all of the Self was overcome and had died, once every desire and every urge was silent in the heart, then the ultimate part of me had to awake, the innermost of my being, which is no longer Self – the great secret.”
Hermann Hesse Self, Awakening, Desire, Silence, Inner Truth, Spiritual Journey
22. “She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him in new and resplendent colors, belonged to him, and spoke to him in his own language. And instead of merely winning a woman he embraced the entire world and every star in heaven glowed within him and sparkled with joy in his soul. He had loved and had found himself. But most people love to lose themselves.”
Hermann Hesse Love, Transcendence, Awakening, Connection, Self Realization, Cosmic Unity
23. “He looked around, as if he was seeing the world for the first time. Beautiful was the world, colorful was the world, strange and mysterious was the world! Here was blue, here was yellow, here was green, the sky and the river flowed, the forest and the mountains were rigid, all of it was beautiful, all of it was mysterious and magical, and in its midst was he, Siddhartha, the awakening one, on the path to himself.”
Hermann Hesse World, Beautiful, Awakening, Sensory Experience, Existential Realization, Personal Journey
26. “I thought I was a Christian but I’m not. I’m something else and I don’t know what. Everything I have ever taken for right and wrong these people have taught me – these same, these very people. So it’s me, it’s not them. Something has happened to me.”
Harper Lee Spiritual Crisis, Moral Reflection, Personal Awakening, Spirituality, Reflection, Awakening
