Awakening Quotes

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Either nobody's perfect,
or everyone is.

Matt Kahn

Whatever happens, love that.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

He who fights is powerless, but he who loves is power itself.. Eric Micha'el Leventhal
He who fights is powerless, but he who loves is power itself.

James Blanchard Cisneros

Once you awaken, you will have no interest in judging those who sleep.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Judge not, lest ye miss out on all the fun.

Neil Gaiman

Sleep my little baby-oh Sleep until you waken When you wake you'll see the world If
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.

Lord Mahavira

A non-religious person when awaken would make others sleep. Therefore his sleeping is good. A religious
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.

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.

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.

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.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Perfection itself is not the ultimate goal
but the ultimate condition of life.

T. Scott McLeod

If you go to war with your mind, you will always be at war.

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.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

All work done with love is healing work.

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.

Pyotr Uspensky

When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.

Aishwarya Shiva Pareek

Only open-minded deserves the truth.

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!

Erin Fall Haskell

Deep inside of you is a 'Guru' with the wisdom of the entire Universe!

Nikki Rowe

Many people die long before their departure date, Through ignorance of living a life they never
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.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Each person you meet is an aspect of yourself, clamoring for love.. Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Each person you meet
is an aspect of yourself,
clamoring for love.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

I never realized it was all a game,
until I started winning.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Live life, you deserve to be fully alive.

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.

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.

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.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

You invoke a new future
when you envision your past
in the light of your present.

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.

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.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

In the search for truth,
what you believe matters less
than how you believe.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Raphael Zernoff

Listen to your heart in silence and peace, as through fear you only channel fear.

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.

Soul Dancer

As I digest what words I speak, I consume more wisely.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Change happens for you
the moment you want something
more than you fear it.

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.

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.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You possess a great soul, awaken the spirit.

Adyashanti

The greatest dream that we can have is to forget that we are dreaming.

Sushil Singh

Everyone is good if you see from good side.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Thoughts don't become things; thoughts ARE things.

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.

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.

Amit Ray

Spirituality does not lie in meditating the body of an ex-master. Spirituality exists in mediating on your own inner body.

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.

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.

AainaA-Ridtz

Be formless. As long as your "I" is asserted, it will be an idol of worship

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.

Gina Charles

The degree to which your Consciousness expands, is the degree to which you understand yourself and the universe.

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

Erin Fall Haskell

The only human disease is amnesia.

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.

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.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Follow the light of your intuition, and keep away from the darkness of convention.

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.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Awake my soul, the glory of the Lord is upon me.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Enza Vita

Those who are actively seeking enlightenment will not find it because the act of looking for it is the distraction from it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Enza Vita

All paths are valid, but in the end you will find that the realization of the ultimate truth is a pathless path.

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.

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.

Enza Vita

Being enlightened ironically means realizing that there is no separate entity that can be enlightened or unenlightened.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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