Awakening Quotes - Page 7

• The solution to the problem of the day is the awakening of the consciousness of humanity to the divinity within.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Yoga, Humanity, Divinity

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• Meditation is your awakening. The moment you awake, sleep disappears and with it all the dreams, all the projections, all expectations, all desires. Suddenly you are in a state of desirelessness, non-ambition, unfathomable silence. And only in this silence, blossoms flower in your being. Only in this silence the lotuses open their petals.

  Rajneesh

  Dream, Flower, Ambition

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• So, how do you get back to heaven?
  To begin with, just notice the thoughts that take you away from it.
  You don't have to believe everything your thoughts tell you.
  Just become familiar with the particular thoughts you use
  to deprive yourself of happiness.
  It may seem strange at first to get to know yourself in this way,
  but becoming familiar with your stressful thoughts
  will show you the way home to everything you need.

  Byron Katie

  Happiness, Believe, Home

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• The basics teachings of Buddha are about understanding what we are, who we are, why we are. When we begin to realize what we are, who we are, why we are, then we begin to realize what we are not, who we are not, why we are not. We begin to realize that we don't have basic, substantial, solid, fundamental ground that we can exert anymore. We begin to realize that our ideas of security and our concept of freedom have been purely phantom experiences.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Freedom, Teaching, Ideas

  Chogyam Trungpa (2009). “The Mishap Lineage: Transforming Confusion into Wisdom”, p.4, Shambhala Publications

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

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Sleep, People, Knows

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• Each person's life is like a mandala - a vast, limitless circle. We stand in the center of our own circle, and everything we see, hear and think forms the mandala of our life ... everything that shows up in your mandala is a vehicle for your awakening.

  Pema Chodron

  Thinking, Circles, Life Is Like

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• The greatest moments of Native History lie ahead of us if a great spiritual renewal and wakening should take place. The Native American has been a sleeping giant. He is awakening. The original Americans could become the evangelists who will help win America for Christ! Remember these forgotten people!

  Billy Graham

  Spiritual, Lying, Native American

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• We Are All the Same
  Listen to the reeds as they sway apart;
  Hear them speak of lost friends.
  At birth, you were cut from your bed,
  Crying and grasping in separation.
  Everyone listens, knowing your song.
  You yearn for others who know your name,
  And the words to your lament.
  We are all the same, all the same,
  Longing to find our way back;
  Back to the one, back to the only one.

  Rumi

  Love, Song, Cutting

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• Each day, awakening, are we asked to paint the sky blue? Need we coax the sun to rise or flowers to bloom? Need we teach birds to sing, or children to laugh, or lovers to kiss? No, though we think the world imperfect, it surrounds us each day with its perfections. We are asked only to appreciate them, and to show appreciation by living in peaceful harmony amidst them. The Creator does not ask that we create a perfect world; He asks that we celebrate it.

  Robert Breault

  Appreciation, Children, Flower

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• The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening

  Albert Einstein

  Tree, Doubt, Greater

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• He who dreams ... does not know he is dreaming... . Only when he awakens does he know he has dreamt. But there is also the great awakening (ta-chiao), and then we see that [everything] here is nothing but a great dream. Of course, the fools believe that they are already awake-what foolishness! Confucius and you, both of you, are dreams; and I, who tell you this, am also a dream.

  Zhuangzi

  Dream, Believe, Doe

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• Awakenings are always terrifying as they force you to realize your past has been lived in confinement, the most disturbing part is when you recognize that the shackle holding you down are largely once you have placed upon yourself, the prison is self constructed

  Dean Karnazes

  Past, Self, Realizing

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• On the journey of the warrior-bodhisattva, the path goes down, not up, as if the mountain pointed toward the earth instead of the sky. Instead of transcending the suffering of all creatures, we move toward turbulence and doubt however we can. We explore the reality and unpredictability of insecurity and pain, and we try not to push it away. If it takes years, if it takes lifetimes, we let it be as it is. At our own pace, without speed or aggression, we move down and down and down. With us move millions of others, companions in awakening from fear.

  Pema Chodron

  Pain, Moving, Warrior

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• I believe in the importance of unity among those who know Christ, who profess to be "Christians." . . . I believe there is an important spiritual awakening beginning in the hearts of those truly committed to Christ in the Protestant and Catholic communities. Is it possible that Pope Francis may prove to be an answer not only to the prayers of Catholics, but also those known as Protestants?

  James Robison

  Christian, Spiritual, Prayer

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• The key to Christian living is a thirst and hunger for God. And one of the main reasons people do not understand or experience the sovereignty of grace and the way it works through the awakening of sovereign joy is that their hunger and thirst for God is so small.

  John Piper

  Christian, Keys, People

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• Even if you achieve your outer purpose, it will never satisfy you if you haven't found your inner purpose, which is awakening, being present, being in alignment with life. True power comes out of the presence; it is the presence.

  Eckhart Tolle

  True Power, True Life, Purpose

  "The Awakening of Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Nev Pierce, www.eckharttolle.com.

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• It takes a long time-many incarnations of right action, good company, help of the guru, self-awakening, wisdom, and meditation-for man to regain his soul consciousness of immortality. To reach this state of Self-realization, each man must practice meditation to transfer his consciousness from the limited body to the unlimited sphere of joy felt in meditation.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Men, Practice, Self

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

  Eckhart Tolle

  Secret, Moments, Accepting

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• Stop all delays, all seeking and all striving. Put down your concepts, ideas and beliefs. For one instant be still and directly encounter the silent unknown core of your being. In that instant Freedom will embrace you and reveal the Awakening that you are.

  Adyashanti

  Ideas, Encounters, Delay

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• Can you really see and hear Him, or is He still the Unknown God to you? It’s time for an awakening.

  Karen Wheaton

  Stills

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• Ah, if I could realize, if I could forget myself and devote my meditations to the freeing, the awakening and the blessedness of all living creatures everywhere I'd realize what there is, is ecstasy.

  Jack Kerouac

  Meditation, Realizing, Forget

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.141, Penguin

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• Awakening the mystical kundalini prematurely is dangerous, because unless you have refined your being, you'll get all screwed up, entities, weird powers ... strange things. That is why I don't teach anyone how to open up the chakras.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Strange, Chakra

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

  Plato

  Soul, Privilege, Life Is

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• Those who awaken never rest in one place. Like swans, they rise and leave the lake. On the air they rise and fly an invisible course. Their food is knowledge. They live on emptiness. They have seen how to break free. Who can follow them?

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Lakes, Swans

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• To sing with the voice of angels as we do the work of angels. To laugh with the laugh of Buddha as we go to our awakening. To extend the arms of Jesus to welcome the presence of children and let them climb into our hearts.

  Hugh Prather

  Jesus, Children, Heart

  Hugh Prather (1996). “Spiritual Parenting: A Guide to Understanding and Nurturing the Heart of Your Child”, Harmony

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