“Let whatever happens, be what needs to happen, so that I may awaken.”
~ T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken
Beautiful day here, and I hope it is in your neck of the world as well 🙂
TGIF …. It seems yesterday that I thought it was Wednesday, I’m surprised to find this morning that it’s Friday LOL.
So as I’ve been cleaning house, it’s given me alot of time to think. And yesterday, a friend left me a very kind message, thanking me for the work that I do.
What is it that I do? I’m still finding it a challenge to put it into words. I’ve fallen totally in love with Robert Frost’s quote “I am not a teacher, I am an awakener”. What does that mean exactly? I decided to research that this morning, to see if it will help me put words to my offering, that which I know intuitively. That which, when I can hear the dreams and longings of another person, I feel the vibration, and know that the universe is calling for it to be manifested. And I know how to do this, systematically, yet spontaneously.
When Frost said his quote, he said it in response to “The Mirror and the Lamp”, a long book that divided poetry into two general groups. One category was poetry written as a mirror, the world as it “really” was. The second was poetry as a lamp that projected the inner light of the poet’s consciousness to the world. Either group can fulfill the Frostian claim of “poet-as-awakener”.
Who can sleep when a lamp is shined on him? Who would peer into a mirror through closed eyes?
Frost’s claim is more convincing than either the mirror or lamp analogy, simply because it identifies the possibility of collaboration between reader and writer. For “awakening” to occur there have to be both stimulus (poetry) and response (reader). Not all poetry will be good enough to elicit a response, and not all readers will be receptive or bright enough for the stimulus to make their brain cells fire.
So very true. And somehow, I believe the universe matches up poets and readers, just as it needs to be ….
So for all you other “Awakeners” and poets out there … This post is for you. I hope you enjoy the following quotes as much as I did.
TGIF ❤
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“What we can imagine we can make real.”
~ Nadine May, The Awakening Clan
“Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man’s faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.”
~ Giacomo Puccini
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
~ Napoleon Hill
“The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep.”
~ Jacques Maritain
“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.”
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Who is an Awakener? This hypnosis is so potent you will think having found a new religion, the “Awakener” crushes the stumbling blocks of a limited mind to increase intelligence and awareness levels in quantum mode.”
~ CosmicMaster.eu
“Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying ‘And then I shall have wings and antennae,’ there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation. When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.”
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
“Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special longing that will never again let you linger in the lowlands of complacency and partial fulfillment. The eternal makes you urgent. You are loath to let compromise or the threat of danger hold you back from striving toward the summit of fulfillment.”
~ John O’Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
“Whatever noble aims we may have, paths we may be on, or necessary efforts we may make, our only real freedom is to awaken now, this very instant, to the mystery and miracle of being, to the spacious awareness that we are. It is only this immediate awakening to the deepest levels of ourselves, to the conscious source that connects us all, that will enable us to experience and manifest real harmony, intelligence, kindness, love, and compassion in our lives and bring about the transformation in the world that we all wish for.”
~ Dennis Lewis
“WE ALREADY HAVE everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement. All these trips that we lay on ourselves—the heavy-duty fearing that we’re bad and hoping that we’re good, the identities that we so dearly cling to, the rage, the jealousy and the addictions of all kinds—never touch our basic wealth. They are like clouds that temporarily block the sun. But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.”
~ Pema Chödrön, Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living
“A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
“You are one thing only. You are a Divine Being. An all-powerful Creator. You are a Deity in jeans and a t-shirt, and within you dwells the infinite wisdom of the ages and the sacred creative force of All that is, will be and ever was.”
~ Anthon St. Maarten, Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny
“From human problems come human solutions, which in turn spawn inspiration, creativity, insight and enlightenment. Without life’s problems, life would become stagnant, dull and boring.”
~ Beth Johnson, Thoughts From The Inside
“I’ve continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I’ve learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.”
~ Anthony Robbins
