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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.

Awakening in the morning returns us to life, and to awareness of death.

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

Awakening into love is a lifelong path.

Awakening to the truth is a deep realization of what you are as an experience. What is it that is listening? What is it that is feeling? Feel it. Sense it. Welcome it.

Awakening is about liberating yourself from the prison that is the world of the mind and daring to be here as all that you are.

Awakening is natural,delusion is not

Awakening is not something you achieve. It is something you relax into.

Awakening is not changing who you are, but discarding who you are not.

Awakening is usually precipitated by the honest, sincere, inquiry into who you really are.

Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it.

Before we can realize who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person we think we are, here and now, is at best an impostor and a stranger.

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.

Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.

But down the bagagge, take of the blinders, and see for yourself that this very place is the valley of the endless spring, this very body is the body of the universe. At such a time, who is it who can accompany this?

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

Do not seek the answers. Let the answers find you.

Buddha nature is not something that we possess, nor is it something we can be. It is the nature of things, just as they are. To realize our buddha nature, to live in accord with this awakening, is the truth that alleviates suffering in the world.

but whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.

Conscious awareness is the source of our healing...Only when you say the truth can the truth set you free. This is not a negative process, but at times it is a difficult process.

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

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.

Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.

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.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life.

Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dali.

Everything that occurs in your life is an opportunity for awakening. There are no exceptions!

Fantasy is not the literature of subversion of the status quo but of 'awakening to' the status quo.

First, we become aware of that which is Divine around us. Then we become aware of that which is Divine within us. Finally, we become aware that all is Divine, and that there is nothing else. This is the moment of our awakening.

For a relationship to deepen, at some point the spiritual dimension needs to come in. You don't even need to be fully awakened for this to happen, but if it does happen it certainly means you are awakening.

For many people, illness - loss of health - represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness of your own mortality, the greatest loss of all.

For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped.

Freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness.

Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict.

Evolution usually occurs in response to a crisis situation, and we now are faced with such a crisis situation. This is why there is indeed an enormous acceleration in the awakening process of our species.

I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.

I am obsessed with story. I had a late awakening in life. In college was the first time that I understood what you could do with a story and what a good novel is - literary value and subtext and irony and everything.

I am perceiving everyone, including myself, as an awakening being who is here to claim his or her birthright to the higher consciousness planes of unconditional love and oneness.

Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.

Great doubt will eventually lead to great awakening.

Having never left the house you are looking for the way home

Healing is awakening to the perfection that already is ours.

He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.

History is that nightmare from which there is no awakening.

However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.

How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream.

Human consciousness is now being drawn inexorably toward the same issues, the gaze of collective attention focused like never before.