Collective Awakening Quotes

Something is stirring in the hearts and minds of the people.

What education is to the individual, revelation is to the whole human race.

When the storyteller tells the truth, she reminds us that human beings are more alike than unalike... A story is what it's like to be a human being-to be knocked down and to miraculously arise. Each one of us has arisen, awakened. We do rise.

I do think that our culture or our psyche as a country I guess, the world or whatever, we're due for a huge event. We're due for a little bit of a revolution or a spotlight or a movement. Something that feels large, something that feels like the 60s. Some sort of unification.

Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?

You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening.

A global awakening can only happen from a spiritual awakening that is of global dimensions.

That a new humanity will be brought forth from this Christ consciousness in each person.

Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change. You have to have the idea of change or at least have a hope before you can proceed. And that stage goes very quickly because a contagion of consciousness is within your control. But when you get to the stage of institutional change, it becomes a much slower process.

In order to make the changes work, the majority of members of society that has entered into the changes must wake up every morning with a feeling of the great historical moment, with the feeling of something big and extraordinary.

We are living in an historic moment. We are each called to take part in a great transformation. Our survival as a species is threatened by global warming, economic meltdown, and an ever-increasing gap between rich and poor. Yet these threats offer an opportunity to awaken as an interconnected and beloved community.

It seems to me that the students are now half-awake enough to try and wake up their brother workers. If you don't pass on your own awareness then it closes down again.

A Oneness of all. An evolution in consciousness of us all that isn't about the egos.

If people would just wake up to what's real, there would be no misery in the world. I guess chanting's a pretty good place to start.

Individual self-transcendence collectively inspires humanity at large.

Christmas is waiting to be born: in you, in me, in all mankind.

The next step in human evolution is not inevitable, but for the first time in the history of the planet, it can be a conscious choice. Who is making that choice? You are. And who are you? Consciousness that has become conscious of itself.

Peace is something that we can bring about if we can actually learn to wake up a bit more as individuals and a lot more as a species; if we can learn to be fully what we actually already are; to reside in the inherent potential of what is possible for us, being human.

The only way to get change is not through the courts or - heaven forbid - the politicians, but through a change of human consciousness and through a change of heart. Only through the arts - music, poetry, dance, painting, writing - "can we really reach each other.

There is an emergent enlightenment appearing today, unique to no particular culture or ethnicity. Anyone who chooses to be, is its conduit.

What is most needed right now is evolving human consciousness. Without that, science, technology, development, everything will go waste.

Every era of renaissance has come out of new freedoms for peoples. The coming renaissance will be greater than any in human history, for this time all the peoples of the earth will share in it.

The real transformation of the world comes not from what we are doing but from the consciousness from which we are doing it.

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human consciousness, in the very humanness of modern man.