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.

You are made in the image of what you desire.

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

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

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?

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.

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

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.

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

Life is a series of awakenings

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.

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

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

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

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!