Awakening Quotes - Page 2

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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 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

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.

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

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

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.

The secret of awakening is to unconditionally accept this moment as it is.

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.

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

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