Awakening Quotes

We are awakening to that marvelous truth, that Christ is not in the heavens only, nor the atmosphere only, but Christ is in you.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.

Great doubt will eventually lead to great awakening.

That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening

The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person.

Spring time is the land awakening.

Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments.

The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw and knew I saw all things in God and God in all things.

Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict.

Action isn't a burden to be hoisted up and lugged around on our shoulders. It is something we are. The work we have to do can be seen as a kind of coming alive. More than some moral imperative, it's an awakening to our true nature, a releasing of our gifts.

At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.

If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?

People live in sleep, do everything in sleep, and do not know they are asleep.

Before we can realize who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person we think we are, here and now, is at best an impostor and a stranger.

Libya is a war of the womb. A product of the romantic minds of women who fantasize about an Arab awakening. It is estrogen-driven paternalism on steroids.

Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.

Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.

The Buddha’s dharma didn’t teach peace and relaxation; it taught awakening—often rude awakening.

Life is a series of awakenings

Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.

When you catch on to your awakening, the world does not change. You just see it differently, that's all. You acquire a feeling of immortality. A feeling of divine bliss, so to speak, when things no longer have the power to affect you.

At first, He shook us very tenderly but now His shaking has become violent, because He has not succeeded in awakening us... God is going to shake everything in sight so that He is revealed as the only unshakable power!

When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what's left? A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are.

How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream.

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

The only real service we can render to that which we perceive and interpret in phenomenal existence as 'others' is by awakening to universal consciousness ourselves.

The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.

Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.

I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good.

The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.

Only he who bestirs himself can advance spiritually. The fool who uses extraneous aids for this, in the form of the ready-made opinions of others, only walks his path as if on crutches, while ignoring his own healthy limbs.

The more something upsets you, the more it is meant for you. When it no longer upsets you, it is no longer needed because the lesson is complete.

The more clean you are in awakening to your own being, the more you'll be able to move your own being toward others. Your evolution as awareness is in the purity of thatit's in the cleanness.

The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

When you succeed in awakening the Kundalini, so that it starts to move out of its mere potentiality, you necessarily start a world which is totally different from our world. It is the world of eternity.

To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness.

Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening.

Psychology, so dedicated to awakening human consciousness, needs to wake itself up to one of the most ancient human truths: we cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet.

In truth, he who is not content with what he has would not be content with whatever he acquires.

I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.

I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.

Most people like to live in illusions.

Don't change just so people will like you! Like yourself and your relationships will change. There are people who will love you for - YOU.

The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not.

Now don't think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is the beginning of a life lived from your true nature.

Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.