“The Spirit of Awakening is known to be of two kinds: the spirit of aspiring for Awakening, and the spirit of venturing toward awakening. Just as one perceives the difference between a person who yearns to travel and a traveler, so do the learned recognize the corresponding difference between these two.”
§ 1.15
Bodhicaryavatara, A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life
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An introduction to this book
The Religion of God (2000)
Source: Son of the Shadows
“Russia [...] will awaken in the spirit of its greatest thinker, in the spirit of Dostoevsky.”
1920s
Original: (de) Rußland ... einst im Geiste seines größten Denkers, im Geiste Dostojewskis erwachen wird.
National Socialist Letters (Nationalsozialistische Briefe), “National Socialism or Bolshevism”, (November 15, 1925), quoted in: Ralph Georg Reuth, Goebbels, Piper, 2nd ed., Munich, 1991, p. 96. ISBN 3-492-03183-8.
Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Human Personality (1943), p. 63
Reflections on Various Subjects (1665–1678), II. On Difference of Character
§ 3.27
Bodhicaryavatara, A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life
“My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring and carried aloft on the wings of the breeze.”
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day (1842)
Context: My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring <br/> And carried aloft on the wings of the breeze; <br/> For above and around me the wild wind is roaring, <br/> Arousing to rapture the earth and the seas.
Context: My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring
And carried aloft on the wings of the breeze;
For above and around me the wild wind is roaring,
Arousing to rapture the earth and the seas.