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When I first came to this country I was this new kid from the Caribbean. England was a rude awakening for me.
Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist.
The Bosnian Genocide was something that triggered my consciousness and led to an awakening politically for me.
The dream of democracy has long been enshrined in the hearts of the Egyptian people. It only needed awakening.
The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.
Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.
Self awakening enables you to see the human scene as it is, not as it appears to be, which frees you of its chaos.
I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.
Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world.
It is only by embracing the full spectrum of human consciousness that we can bring about a true awakening of the heart
The true test of maturity is not how old a person is but how he reacts to awakening in the mid-town area in his shorts.
It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
At its core, 'Spring Awakening' is about the perils of miscommunication and what happens when people are denied a voice.
Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.
Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.
You don't want to move in with someone and find out that they don't have auto or health insurance. That's a rude awakening.
I started off in musical theater, yeah. It was one of my first jobs; it was in Spring Awakening in London, which was amazing.
Personal and collective awakening are one and the same - when a raindrop joins the sea, the sea also merges with the raindrop.
If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?
We are awakening to that marvelous truth, that Christ is not in the heavens only, nor the atmosphere only, but Christ is in you.
I want to know what became of the changes we waited for love to bring/Were they only the fitful dreams of some greater awakening?
Working at 'Harper's' was an awakening experience for me. I genuinely enjoyed the process of putting together a fashion magazine.
Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today.
A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.
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.
I'm hoping to do more with my music. I did the stage musical 'Spring Awakening' recently and it reignited the love I have for singing.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
The rude awakening I got was that this country can determine the fate of anyone by using propaganda on a public that is hungry for lies.
The Arab awakening was like watching elephants fly: something you didn't expect, something you haven't seen before, "Wow, elephants fly."
Any time you have an individual who is very confident in their abilities to persuade, there can be a rude awakening under cross-examination.
The nonconformist here may be "beat down" by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
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.
I became a conservative after a deeply profound spiritual awakening at which point I repented of my anger, and God allowed me to see reality.
It's nice to have dreams, but when you use borrowed money to achieve them and act as if money grows on trees, you may have a brutal awakening.
Africa is awakening. It's a huge market of almost a billion people with huge resources and a young population. People spend when they're young.
In the year of 1957, I experienced, by the grace of God, a spiritual awakening, which was to lead me to a richer, fuller, more productive life.
That higher awakening is called God-consciousness. In that condition, you will see that all the objects of the world are your own universal self.
That's where the biggest shift has taken place. We have been propelled forward into our awakening because of the dimensional shifts on the planet.
Anybody that thinks hanging out with Snoop is fun, is cool, you're in for a rude awakening because he is the most down to earth, boring dude ever.
Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.
At the end of the spectrum when you get to that 12th step, when you have that spiritual awakening we make ourselves available to help other people.
When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.
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.
The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.
That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening
I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.
But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.
Libya is a war of the womb. A product of the romantic minds of women who fantasize about an Arab awakening. It is estrogen-driven paternalism on steroids.
History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later with a whimper.