Spiritual Awakening Quotes - Page 5

• Humanity as a whole has already gone through unimaginable suffering, mostly self-inflicted, the culmination of which was the 20th century with its unspeakable horrors. This collective suffering has brought upon a readiness in many human beings for the evolutionary leap that is spiritual awakening.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Self, Humanity

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• As long as you ask questions you are breaking through, but the moment you begin to accept, you are psychologically dead. So right through life don't accept a thing, but inquire, investigate. Then you will find that your mind is something really extraordinary, it has no end, and to such a mind there is no death.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Long, Mind

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1970). “Think on these things”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Lying, Awakening

  "Striking Thoughts". Book by Bruce Lee, p. 9, 2000.

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• Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Awakening, Reactions

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1993). “The Meditative Mind”, p.24, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

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• To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Awakening, Mastery

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

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• Mere isolation in an enclosing idea is not a release from conflict.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Ideas, Awakening

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.40, Rajpal & Sons

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• We are empty shells if we do not possess, if we do not fill our life with furniture, with music, with knowledge, with this or that. And that shell makes a lot of noise, and that noise we call living, and with that we are satisfied.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Over You, Sorrow

  "The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1948-1949, Choiceless awareness".

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• The greatest discovery of the 19th century was not in the realm of the physical sciences, but the power of the subconscious mind touched by faith. Any individual can tap into an eternal reservoir of power that will enable them to overcome any problem that may arise. All weaknesses can be overcome, bodily healing, financial independence, spiritual awakening, and prosperity beyond your wildest dreams. This is the superstructure of happiness.

  William James

  Happiness, Dream, Spiritual

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• It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Discipline, Effort

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

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• Is sobriety all that we are to expect of a spiritual awakening? No, sobriety is only a bare beginning; it is only the first gift of the first awakening. If more gifts are to be received, our awakening has to go on. As it does go on, we find that bit by bit we can discard the old life - the one that did not work - for a new life that can and does work under any conditions whatever.

  Bill W.

  Spiritual, Sobriety, Doe

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• On the flip side, I've also had to struggle with saying "yes." Before I did this research and before I had my own breakdown and spiritual awakening around this work, my motto was, "Don't do anything that you're already not great at doing." Which I think is the way the majority of adults in our culture live. Authenticity is also about the courage and the vulnerability to say, "Yeah, I'll try it. I feel pretty uncomfortable and I feel a little vulnerable, but I'll try it!"

  Brené Brown

  Spiritual, Struggle, Thinking

  Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Our conflict is in relationship, at all levels of our existence; and the understanding of this relationship, completely and extensively, is the only real problem that each one has.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Real, Understanding

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Choiceless Awareness”, p.88, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

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• When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Mirrors, Self

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• To understand what is right meditation there must be an awareness of the operation of one's own consciousness, and then there is complete attention.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Meditation, Attention

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• Like the Arthurian years at Camelot, the Sixties constituted a breakthrough, a fleeting moment of glory, a time when a significant little chunk of humanity briefly realised its moral potential and flirted with its neurological destiny, a collective spiritual awakening that flared brilliantly until the barbaric and mediocre impulses of the species drew tight once more the curtains of darkness.

  Tom Robbins

  Spiritual, Destiny, Years

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.308, Bantam

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• Being discontented, we either seek a different job or merely succumb to environment...instead of causing us to question life, the whole process of existence.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Jobs, Awakening

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• For many people, the first indication of a spiritual awakening is that they suddenly become aware of their thoughts. They become a witness to their thoughts, so to speak. They are not completely identified with their mind anymore and so they begin to sense that there is a depth to them that they had never known before.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, People, Mind

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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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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• Only when the mind is tranquil-through self-knowledge and not through imposed self-discipline-only then, in that tranquillity, in that silence, can reality come into being. It is only then that there can be bliss, that there can be creative action.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Reality, Self

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.50, Rajpal & Sons

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• Most people are unhappy; and they are unhappy because there is no love in their hearts.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Heart, People

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

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• I don't want to be daft and say I had some spiritual awakening or something, but I really did come of age in Los Angeles, where we recorded the album. I had my own little house and my own little circle and I really got to feel how the city ticks.

  Melanie Chisholm

  Spiritual, Cities, Circles

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• The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw and knew I saw all things in God and God in all things.

  Mechthild of Magdeburg

  Spiritual, Awakening, Saws

  Sue Woodruff, Mechthild (of Magdeburg) (1982). “Meditations with Mechtild of Magdeburg”, Bear & Co

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• Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge is the whole universe; it embraces all the struggles of humanity.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Struggle, Self

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “Individual & Society: A Study Book of the Teachings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.87, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

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• I got to college in '99, and I went to study literature and writing, and so within a couple years we had Bush elected, 9/11, we were at war, so I was sort of having my political and spiritual awakening at the same time I was becoming an adult, and that's a lot of stuff at once. I became very focused on the state of the world, and I started studying that stuff more, and I just had a real identity crisis. I couldn't even really just study literature.

  Gaby Hoffmann

  Spiritual, Couple, Real

  "‘Transparent’ star Gaby Hoffmann on nudity, child acting, and what scares her". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. September 22, 2016.

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• This new large-scale spiritual awakening is occurring primarily not within the confines of the established religions, but outside of those structures. Some of it, however, is also happening within the existing churches and religious institutions wherever the members of those congregations do not identify with rigid and exclusive belief systems whose unconscious purpose is to foster a sense of separation on which the egoic mind structures depend for their survival.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Religious, Survival

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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