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awakenings
«It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.»
«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.»
Author: Aleister Crowley
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Faith
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arms, awakening, awakenings, corpse, danced, drank, slept, Virgin
«The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less and less vivid every time they occur, till at length the mind grows absolutely callous»
Author: Anna Letitia Barbauld
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approbation, at length, awakenings, callous, glow, indignation, remorse, The Glow, vivid
«Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.»
Author: George Gurdjieff
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«Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of the uni- verse and are appointed by Heaven.»
Author: I Ching
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appointed, awakening, awakenings, depths, directing, originate, originate in, primal, verse
«The whole art of teaching is the only art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy»
Author: Anatole France
(Writer)
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Teachers and teaching
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afterwards, awakening, awakenings, Awakening The, contented, curiosity, proportion, satisfying, teaching, The Natural, vivid, wholesome
«I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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accomplishes, attractions, awakening, awakenings, boys, compulsion, elective, instructor, instructors, marking, opening, professor, pupils, put on, scholarship, schools, school system, studies, The Attractions, ungracious