We live between the act of awakening and the act of surrender. Each morning, we awaken to the light and the invitation to a new day in the world of time; each night, we surrender to the dark to be taken to play in the world of dreams where time is no more.
I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform.
On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.
Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness.
No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you.
To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship.
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.