Awakening Quotes - Page 6

• The biggest awakening is the awakening from the childish deceptions and the invented tales of the religion.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Deception, Tales

  5 Copy quote

• 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!

  David Wilkerson

  Sight, Firsts, Violent

  42 Copy quote

• Resisting a task is usually a sign that it's meaningful-which is why it's awakening your fears and stimulating procrastination. You could adopt "Do whatever you're resisting the most" as a philosophy of life.

  Oliver Burkeman

  Meaningful, Philosophy, Procrastination

  Oliver Burkeman (2011). “HELP!: How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done”, p.116, Canongate Books

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Open to me, so that I may open.
  Provide me your inspiration
  So that I might see mine.

  Rumi

  Inspiration, May, Might

  9 Copy quote

• To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it immense graces from Him. Gratitude therefore takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of God. For the grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.

  Thomas Merton

  Faith, Gratitude, Grateful

  178 Copy quote

• I am the perpetrator of my suffering - but only all of it.

  Byron Katie

  Life, Suffering

  4 Copy quote

• Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth.

  Adyashanti

  Yearning

  4 Copy quote

• Vulnerability is a wonderful tool for awakening and for learning and for growing and for connecting.

  Colleen Saidman

  Tools, Growing, Wonderful

  "A Conversation with Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee". Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you can see it, hear it, feel it, taste it, touch it, or smell it, you can be present with it. It is of the present moment, and so it brings to you the opportunity to be present with it.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Life, Opportunity, Smell

  7 Copy quote

• Do not seek fame. Do not make plans. Do not be absorbed by activities. Do not think that you know. Be aware of all that is and dwell in the infinite. Wander where there is no path. Be all that heaven gave you, but act as though you have received nothing. Be empty, that is all.

  Zhuangzi

  Life, Thinking, Heaven

  Zhuangzi (1974). “Chuang tsu: Inner chapters”, Vintage Books USA

  44 Copy quote

  Show source

• Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.

  Anthony de Mello

  Life, Children, Learning

  "Approaching God : How to Pray". Book by Steve Brown (p. 94), 1995.

  33 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Alan Watts

  Enlightenment, Recognition, Affair

  Alan Watts (1973). “This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience”, Vintage

  43 Copy quote

  Show source

• Heaven and hell are not geographical; they are not something outside you, they are something that belongs to your interiority. If you are awake, then you are in a totally different universe; it is as if in your awakening the whole existence becomes awakened. It takes a new color, a new flavor, a new fragrance. When you are asleep, the whole existence sleeps with you. It all depends on you.

  Rajneesh

  Sleep, Color, Different Universes

  4 Copy quote

• You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.

  Billy Corgan

  Phoenix, Life And Death, Ashes

  "The Great Pumpkin: Billy Corgan Discusses Tour, New Album, Personal Philosophy". Stereo IQ interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The dream we are living has absolutely no purpose other than our awakening.

  Tony Parsons

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  21 Copy quote

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

  Pema Chodron

  Challenges, Matter, Pathways

  Pema Chodron (2009). “Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears”, p.69, Shambhala Publications

  44 Copy quote

  Show source

• True religion comes not front the teaching of men or the reading of books; it is the awakening of the spirit within us, consequent upon pure and heroic action.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Book, Teaching, Reading

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1596, Manonmani Publishers

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• The banyan tree does not mean awakening, nor does the hill, nor the saint, nor the European couple. The lotus is a symbol of regeneration.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Couple, Mean, Tree

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2078, Manonmani Publishers

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Where you find the attraction for lust and wealth considerably diminished, to whatever creed he may belong, know that his inner spirit is awakening.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Lust, May, Spirit

  Swami Vivekananda (1976). “Awakened India”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Times are difficult globally; awakening is no longer a luxury or an ideal. It’s becoming critical. We don’t need to add more depression, more discouragement, or more anger to what’s already here. It’s becoming essential that we learn how to relate sanely with difficult times. The earth seems to be beseeching us to connect with joy and discover our innermost essence. This is the best way that we can benefit others.

  Pema Chodron

  Essence, Luxury, Joy

  156 Copy quote

• It is natural that our minds replay old stories, because that is our own mechanism for trying to work out unresolved problems. Yet rerunning those stories will be a fruitless looping until we learn how to move from the story into our body. This is why therapy alone often doesn't bring full healing and awakening.

  Tara Brach

  Moving, Healing, Work Out

  Source: www.tarabrach.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The purpose of the world is for youto be lost in it, ultimately. The purpose of the world is for you to suffer, to create the suffering that seems to be what is needed for the awakening to happen.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Suffering, Purpose, World

  Source: home.online.nl

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  James Hillman

  Psychology, Needs, Consciousness

  29 Copy quote

• There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

  Louis L'Amour

  Inspirational, Change, Time

  "Lonely on the Mountain".

  121 Copy quote

  Show source

• Awakening is the purpose that enfolds all purposes.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Purpose

  Stephen Batchelor (1998). “Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening”, p.35, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source