Spiritual Awakening Quotes - Page 3

• Recognize that you have the courage within you to fulfill the purpose of your birth. Summon forth the power of your inner courage and live the life of your dreams.

  Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

  Life, Dream, Spiritual

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• A sacred illness is one that educates us and alters us from the inside out, provides experiences and therefore knowledge that we could not possibly achieve in any other way, and aligns us with a life path that is, ultimately, of benefit to ourselves and those around us.

  Deena Metzger

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

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• You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Healing

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.51, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Food

  FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from Sep 26, 2013

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• Healing comes when the individual remembers his or her identity—the purpose chosen in the world of ancestral wisdom—and reconnects with that world of Spirit.

  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Healing

  Malidoma Patrice Somé (1999). “The healing wisdom of Africa: finding life purpose through nature, ritual, and community”, J P Tarcher

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• For most people, spiritual awakening is a gradual process. Rarely does it happen all at once. When it does, though, it is usually brought about by intense suffering.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, People, Suffering

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• When we understand clearly that inner peace is the real source of happiness, and how, through spiritual practice, we can experience progressively deeper levels of inner peace, we will develop tremendous enthusiasm to practice

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.9, Tharpa Publications UK

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• The seeker after stillness should be told that the stillness is always there. Indeed it is in every man. But he has to learn, first, to let it in and, second, how to do so. The first beginning of this is to remember. The second is to recognize the inward pull. For the rest, the stillness itself will guide and lead him to itself.

  Paul Brunton

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Learning

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• We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Life, Spiritual, Positive Thinking

  "The Phenomenon of Man". Book by Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, 1955.

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• The real work is in the Heart:
  Wake up your Heart! Because when the heart is completely awake,
  Then it needs no Friend.

  Rabia Basri

  Inspirational, Friends, Wise

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• There was a famous Zen master whom people would seek out to become enlightened. He was strict and would occupy people with things having nothing to do with seeking enlightenment. You see, that is the only way to achieve enlightenment; by not focusing on achieving it. Then, one day it will just come to you.

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• The awakening is the purpose. The awakening of the fact that in essence we are light, we are love. Each cell of our body, each cell and molecule of everything. The power source that runs all life is light. So to awaken to that knowledge, and to desire to operate in that realm, and to believe that it is possible, are all factors that will put you there.

  Dolores Cannon

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Before it incarnates, each soul enters into a sacred contract with the Universe to accomplish certain things. It enters into this commitment in the fullness of its being. Whatever the task that your soul has agreed to, all of the experiences of your life serve to awaken within you the memory of that contract, and to prepare you to fulfill it.

  Gary Zukav

  Memories, Commitment, Soul

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Dec 31, 2014

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• Don't fear the light within. May it ignite the Sacred Flame in your soul.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 14, 2014

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• We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Reflection, Self

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.48, Rajpal & Sons

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• I'm not a prophet of doom, I'm a prophet of love. But love will bid a warning doom to the children who play on the freeway. We need to wake up.

  Keith Green

  Children, Play, Needs

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• A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

  Thomas Merton

  Life, God, Spiritual

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.64, Macmillan

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• The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Truth, Men, Culture

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• To the extent that our experience of suffering reminds us of what everyone else also endures, it serves as a powerful inspiration to practice compassion and avoid causing others pain. And to the extent that suffering awakens our empathy and causes us to connect with others, it serves as the basis of compassion and love.

  Dalai Lama

  Pain, Powerful, Inspiration

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• If you keep in mind that love and love alone is the reason for living, it will calm your heart and free you from your worries.

  Harold Klemp

  Love, Life, Spiritual

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• All our theories of improving the world, while we are still asleep, merely intensify the sleep of humanity.

  Maurice Nicoll

  Sleep, Humanity, World

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• When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by.

  Ajahn Chah

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Buddhist

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• Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Awakening, Should

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2000). “Choiceless Awareness”, p.76, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

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• Meditation is the process of understanding your own mind.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Meditation, Understanding

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “Individual & Society: A Study Book of the Teachings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.89, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

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• Freedom lies outside the pattern of society; but to be free of that pattern you have to understand the whole content of it, which is to understand your own mind.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Lying, Mind

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “Individual & Society: A Study Book of the Teachings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.88, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

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