The Awakening Quotes
The greatest dream that we can have is to forget that we are dreaming.
The question isn't whether the world is perfect.The real question to consider is: If it were, would you still be in it?
Seeing all lifein perfect symmetry.Perceiving each daywith righteous clarity.Living each momentin purposed reality.Believing each dayis the start of eternity.
Mindfulness removes the emotional fogs of negative thoughts with the light of awareness.
Defining moment in new telepathist's life, moment when intuitive individual learns most of society isn't telepathic, doesn't see auras, doesn't know what life on ethereal astral plane is like.
You are in prison. If you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you are in prison. If you think you are free, you can't escape.
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
Perspective is as simple as answering this question: If I had 5 months to live would I experience this problem differently?
It is not how many times we get lost, but how many times we seek the path, again and again, that determines our level of consciousness.
Meditation takes you out of your mind and possibly into the future, negative thoughts are quicksands that keeps you glued to your past.
Worry does not keep it from raining tomorrow, but it does keep it from being sunny today.
If you want God as a tranquilizer, it is okay as an idea, but if you want the Divine to be an awakening process in your life, an idea is not good enough.
The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call 'reality' may be the greatest myth of all.
Somewhere, somehow, at some unknown intersection between prayer and work, God indwells our humble offering—God indwells us—and turns human actions into spiritual awakenings.
Moral maturity and freedom require more than mere adherence to the law
Without setbacks and mistakes, no experience. Without experience, no learning. And without learning, you’ll never truly understand the awakening of your heart’s desires.
On a surface level, all one finds is repeated forms of shallow whispers. Having the courage to explore deeply, a wealth of buried infinite lifetimes emerge - an undeniable force.
Everything will be okay as soon as you are okay with everything. And that is the only time everything will be okay.
I leave my human nature to unfold according to its destiny. I remain as I AM.
All paths are valid, but in the end you will find that the realization of the ultimate truth is a pathless path.
Being enlightened ironically means realizing that there is no separate entity that can be enlightened or unenlightened.
Looking forward” to what you think enlightenment might be at some grand point in the future keeps you from seeing the truth of its presence right now.
Awareness is that which is reading these words right now, whatever “that” is. You know without a doubt that there is something reading these words right now and awareness is precisely what that is.
Not knowing anything, not searching for anything, understanding that we can’t hold on to anything, leaves us with nothing — nothing except our original nature, pure awareness.
The one who believes himself to be a person needs to try to find that person. This is a solution, an antidote, offered to a ghost that thinks it actually exists.
The One that experiences itself as your body-mind is the same One that experiences itself in every other body-mind, form, or appearance that exists.
Just knowing that there is no gate to pass through doesn’t mean that we are at the end of the search, not if we are still standing outside that gateless gate.
Nothing can be the total truth in the worlds of manifestation and the more solid your concepts, the more likely they are going to sink you, sooner or later.
Even amazing states of bliss, peace, clarity and spaciousness have nothing to do with awakening as these are just experiences coming and going in the impersonal awareness that you are.
In enlightenment, the seer and the seen disappear. Or, more accurately, are seen through as illusions. In reality, they were never there, apart from being concept and misunderstanding.
We may be focused on looking forward and upward yet looking inward can be the easiest path to take.
True wisdom is being able to say 'it is what it is' with a smile of celebratory wonder on your face.
A healer's power stems not from any special ability, but from maintaining the courage and awareness to embody and express the universal healing power that every human being naturally possesses.
When you can no longer tell the difference between being yourself and being love, you are not far from waking up.
Although we may wish for more or strive to do better than we have, in these times it is enough to keep your soul.
The Awakened One sees the observer and the observed as one. The unawakened one sees the observer and the observed as different.
You will bring yourself the suffering you need to bring yourself so that you may awaken.
Let whatever happens, be what needs to happen, so that I may awaken.
Light, Amie, can be blinding when it first comes on. Lasers can be deadly, even when streaming from benevolence. We need perspective. We need it to seem wiser than us, tested and tempered by time.