Awakening Quotes
Neil Gaiman
Sleep my little baby-oh
Sleep until you waken
When you wake you'll see the world
If I'm not mistaken...
Kiss a lover
Dance a measure,
Find your name
And buried treasure...
Face your life
Its pain,
Its pleasure,
Leave no path untaken.
1622 Lord Mahavira
A non-religious person when awaken would make others sleep. Therefore his sleeping is good. A religious person when awaken will awaken others. Therefore his awakening is good.
3720 Jaree Francis
Sometimes you're not ready to give the world quite what it wants. And that's okay, because the Earth is generously patient.
3698 Eric Micha'el Leventhal
True wisdom is being able to say 'it is what it is' with a smile of celebratory wonder on your face.
3394 Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Although we may wish for more or strive to do better than we have, in these times it is enough to keep your soul.
2366 T. Scott McLeod
If you go to war with your mind, you will always be at war.
1211 Jared Brock
Somewhere, somehow, at some unknown intersection between prayer and work, God indwells our humble offering - God indwells us - and turns human actions into spiritual awakenings.
3593 Anthony De Mello
Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practice this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.
2138 Pyotr Uspensky
When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.
1048 Erin Fall Haskell
If you're searching for something out in the world to bring you happiness, wealth or love, then you are in for a tough journey. The key to success is never out there, but rather within. It is merely a side effect of awakening the divine within!
1910 Erin Fall Haskell
Deep inside of you is a 'Guru' with the wisdom of the entire Universe!
1977 Nikki Rowe
Many people die long before their departure date,
Through ignorance of living a life they never wanted to be apart of but are to scared to change.
3631 Eric Micha'el Leventhal
The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating.
1279 Nikki Rowe
I find pain, rather beautiful.
It has a chaotic way of shaking up
Everything we once ignored,
To empower us to move past
Anything that doesn't serve the best of us anymore.
1042 Nikki Rowe
The pathway to peace is an in describable journey of facing ones darkness, to find ones light. If they told you it's easier to give up, you met a fool; if they told you; it's easier to grow, you met the wise.
4773 Nandhi Tapasyogi
As we discard a limited mind and a life of limitation to step into the grandness of vastness, we realize infinity itself to be the Guru and all that we do as grace. As we traverse through consciousness that is the Guru, we become the Guru and each thought of ours is perfect in the now, as scriptures. Consciousness is the Guru, the wisdom.
2553 Gautama Buddha
He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.
1047 James Allen
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.
4324 Hermann Hesse
I called the world of phenomena an illusion, I called my eyes and my tongue and accident, valueless phenomena. No, that is all over; I have awakened, I have really awakened and have just been born today.
3102 Raphael Zernoff
There is no real need to save others, because they will help themselves learning from us, when we choose to shine our light of unconditional love.
Through our loving examples others can create, for themselves, an opportunity to act the way they are inspired by us.
1056 Tom Althouse
Some people spend their whole lives seeking heaven,
when all they needed to do was look about them,
and embrace that which was already there.
1462 Tom Althouse
No matter how busy we may believe we are, we have the wonderful opportunity presently of investing time with loved ones. For those are the great investments we will be glad we made, when time begins to slow and the ability to tend turns tender.
3197 Banani Ray
Awakening is the ultimate of religion. Religion is, not really, in believing something outside of your being. It is not in believing or following some authoritative figure, the church, temple, organization or any ideological system of belief. Religion is trusting in what is eternal within you.
3115 Lailah Gifty Akita
Awake my soul.
Awake my spirit.
Awake my desires.
Awake my light.
Awake my mind.
Awake my hope.
Awake my faith.
Awake my love.
4785 Sol Luckman
I wasn’t sure what was going on or what time it was or where I was or even, for that matter, who I was ... but my gut told me something was terribly wrong.
4669 John Steinbeck
A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more.
1645 James Patrick McDonald
The gift of willingness is the only thing that stands between the quiet desperation of a disingenuous life and the actualization of unexpressed potential.
1537 Vishwas Chavan
Fear, anger, jealousy, hatred of self and others are the outcomes of the lack of connectivity with your inner self. Connecting with your inner self and awakening your inner sensuality is not a luxury anymore, but it has become the necessity.
4362 Raphael Zernoff
Listen to your heart in silence and peace, as through fear you only channel fear.
3979 Soul Dancer
Mind chatter: a clatter of left-brain rains of doubt, worry, guilt, shame in a thunderstorm of fear. Forgive the chatter, clear your mind.
1200 Soul Dancer
As I digest what words I speak, I consume more wisely.
2472 Nikki Rowe
Masters of flight don't learn to fly because of all that helped them, they learnt to fly, despite all that tried to stop them.
2160 Nikki Rowe
when you pick a flower, you become so besotted in its beauty; you dare not judge how it became that way, let it be the same lesson for humans; Spread your light, not your pain.
4388 Adyashanti
The greatest dream that we can have is to forget that we are dreaming.
2161 Sushil Singh
Everyone is good if you see from good side.
3507 Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Everything changes as you move through three stages of awareness:
first, that beliefs are the result of conditions;
second, that beliefs are the cause of conditions;
and third, that beliefs are themselves conditions.
2346 S. Tarr
Seeing all life
in perfect symmetry.
Perceiving each day
with righteous clarity.
Living each moment
in purposed reality.
Believing each day
is the start of eternity.
3387 Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Then he realized: 'I, indeed, am this creation; for I have poured it forth from myself.' In that way he became this creation. And verily, he who knows this becomes in this creation a creator.
2569 Eric Micha'el Leventhal
The sacred stillness of your brilliant heart
has as the myriad wonders masqueraded.
But if you knew this secret from the start,
then you'd have quit this Game before you played it.
3152 Eric Micha'el Leventhal
The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call 'reality' may be the greatest myth of all.
3406 Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Though we may choose to view them symbolically, dreams are actually no more or less symbolic than everyday waking reality. When the images and events don't conform to our view of reality, we call them symbols. When they do, we call them facts.
1039 Amit Ray
Spirituality does not lie in meditating the body of an ex-master. Spirituality exists in mediating on your own inner body.
3992 Anthony De Mello
As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. … That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life… Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind.
4161 Anthony De Mello
People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.
4166 AainaA-Ridtz
Be formless. As long as your "I" is asserted, it will be an idol of worship
3867 Anthon St. Maarten
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.
4447 Gina Charles
The degree to which your Consciousness expands, is the degree to which you understand yourself and the universe.
3779 AainaA-Ridtz
When the soul is consciously awakened can it comprehend the acquiescence of Muhammad, the unshakable foundation of Abraham and the very nature of Christ, equating the Aleph in the sealed Universe - As The Soul Speaks
4002 Shavasti
Awakening is not a journey of discovering a distant land or a coveted secret, but rather, it is a journey of surrendering to what has always been present but shrouded in illusion and disillusion.
1372 Carrie Triffet
No spiritual master who ever walked the earth has anything on you. You're the complete package, the real deal. You just don't remember it yet.
1370 L.M.Blanchard
The Illusion - The source of suffering can be linked back to a condition of the mind that creates the illusion of separation-the state in which we see ourselves as disconnected and separate from the world and our experiences.
2391 Raphael Zernoff
The idea of death has been associated with the fear of the unknown, and the punishment or reward for our life choices. There is no punishment, and there is no reward.
We punish ourselves instantly, when we choose to be destructive. We reward ourselves, when we choose being our loving selves.
2753 Raphael Zernoff
For aeons past, there were many gods who descended to be humans, yet there were not many humans who ascended back to their divinity.
2138 Enza Vita
True freedom is when all the stories, all the insights, all the realizations, concepts, beliefs and positions dissolve. What remains is what you are; a vast, conscious, luminous space simply resting in itself, not knowing a thing, at the point where all things are possible.
2942 Enza Vita
The one who believes himself to be a person needs to try to find that person. This is a solution, an antidote, offered to a ghost that thinks it actually exists.
3256 Enza Vita
You aren’t actually a someone, a person, who is conscious. You are the awake space of awareness itself, within which all the “thought up” entities in your world appear. Out of all these imagined entities, you have simply made the mistake of thinking that one of them is you.
3709 Enza Vita
It’s only the ego that wants to surrender the ego; the real meaning of surrender does not involve anything external. It means to surrender to your true nature.
1328 Enza Vita
Not knowing anything, not searching for anything, understanding that we can’t hold on to anything, leaves us with nothing - nothing except our original nature, pure awareness.
4022 Enza Vita
Awareness is that which is reading these words right now, whatever “that” is. You know without a doubt that there is something reading these words right now and awareness is precisely what that is.
4939 Enza Vita
Anything that appears and disappears cannot actually be you because it is being observed by you. By removing the attention from these things and noticing what remains, you are left only with what is permanent - the truth of who you are.
2005 Enza Vita
What is constant? Is the mind anything more than a conglomeration of thoughts? Where is the mind apart from thought? If there is no thought, can there be a mind? They cancel each other out, do they not?
1216 Raphael Zernoff
We cannot perceive what we are not vibrationally a part of.
We cannot be affected by an experience of evil, when we are focused on peace, harmony and love.
4578 Enza Vita
Those who are actively seeking enlightenment will not find it because the act of looking for it is the distraction from it.
4778 Enza Vita
When you are truly awakened, you have completely stopped trying to become awakened. You simply are. You know that you did not locate awakening; awakening located you.
4752 Enza Vita
The essence of death is discovered in the gap between one moment ceasing and another one beginning. That essence is the wakefulness that is our true nature.
3006 Enza Vita
Realization is the direct seeing that this entity you have believed yourself to be has its roots in something infinitely vast and that this entity is not separate from that vastness, the source, the absolute.
3228 Enza Vita
We are all born to fly. Instead, we sit on the branches afraid of the leap into the unknown. But the unknown is where enlightenment lives. Our true nature is the unknown.
4326 Enza Vita
Our lives are a divine expression no matter how messy and weird they may be. How much more meaningful can it get? The source is experiencing itself in form in a conscious, awake way.
4822 Enza Vita
Whatever experiences we may come across in our spiritual journey we are not any of those experiences but rather the one who is witnessing them, the pure awareness cognizing them without thought.
2083 Enza Vita
Realization is not about you, the wave, realizing it is ocean. The ocean realizes itself in you and reveals itself to have never been just a wave. Nothing changes except the falling away of a false belief.
2864 Enza Vita
Realization includes everything, the mundane and the transcendental. In true awakening, nothing stands apart and nothing is excluded. If we find ourselves in a state where something is excluded, that state, however amazing it is, is still a dualistic state.
3118 Enza Vita
Looking forward” to what you think enlightenment might be at some grand point in the future keeps you from seeing the truth of its presence right now.
2998 Enza Vita
All paths are valid, but in the end you will find that the realization of the ultimate truth is a pathless path.
4634 Enza Vita
At the moment of enlightenment, everything is dropped - body, mind, all states, all things - everything. At that moment, there is no separate entity that can become enlightened, because there is no I that can experience it.
3214 Enza Vita
The One that experiences itself as your body-mind is the same One that experiences itself in every other body-mind, form, or appearance that exists.
3117 Enza Vita
Being enlightened ironically means realizing that there is no separate entity that can be enlightened or unenlightened.
2150 Enza Vita
Thoughts, by their nature, come and go endlessly in you. But you are not the thought; you are the one seeing the thought, so any thought of who you are cannot be the truth of who you are.
2955 Enza Vita
There is no separate entity that could be enlightened or unenlightened. There are only innumerable expressions of the One Being (which we call people, animals, forms), mirror-like facets, reflecting being-ness back to itself.
1512 Enza Vita
In enlightenment, the seer and the seen disappear. Or, more accurately, are seen through as illusions. In reality, they were never there, apart from being concept and misunderstanding.
2907 Enza Vita
It is not you as the ego who moves through life, but that life flows before you, and you are the immutable awareness containing it all.
3632 Enza Vita
Even amazing states of bliss, peace, clarity and spaciousness have nothing to do with awakening as these are just experiences coming and going in the impersonal awareness that you are.
2228 Enza Vita
Just knowing that there is no gate to pass through doesn’t mean that we are at the end of the search, not if we are still standing outside that gateless gate.
4191 Enza Vita
Nothing can be the total truth in the worlds of manifestation and the more solid your concepts, the more likely they are going to sink you, sooner or later.
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