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For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped.

I really believe that, as an artist, my opportunity to help to bring about awakening is one that should come from a personal process that someone has, and not from me telling somebody that this is the way it is.

Awakenings occur when we lose faith in the viability of our institutions and the authority of our leaders. Religious and spiritual awakening gives people a new vision of themselves, which is then transplanted into social action.

I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.

I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.

I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.

I look at tens of thousands of church leaders who still do need a bit of an awakening.

I was the person who stayed awake reading by the nightlight until the scary shadows made me crazy.

I had a mystical experience when I was in my late teens, early 20s, and I spent years trying to recapture that.

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.