Best 704 quotes in «awakening quotes» category

You will bring yourself the suffering you need to bring yourself so that you may awaken.

A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her,—the light which, showing the way, forbids it.

After my parents got divorced, I had to go right into public school in the fourth grade. The Steiner school had never really taught me how to read, so it was a rude awakening. I was playing catch-up the whole time.

After his great awakening, the Buddha continued to meditate and to devote himself to others; otherwise his vision would have receded into a pleasant memory.

A global awakening can only happen from a spiritual awakening that is of global dimensions.

A huge number of people are going through the process of awakening, some in the early stages, some in later stages, and it's wonderful to see.

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.

A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.

Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity. [98 - Zenith trans.]

Any time you have an individual who is very confident in their abilities to persuade, there can be a rude awakening under cross-examination.

All existing things upon this earth, which have knowledge of their own existence, possess, some in one degree and some in another, the power of thought, accompanied by perception, which is the awakening of thought by the effects of external objects upon the senses.

All manifest life seems to require a period of sleep, of calm, in which to gain added strength, renewed vigour, for the next manifestation, or awakening to activity. Thus is the march of all progress, of all manifest life - in waves, successive waves, [of] activity and repose. Waves succeed each other in an endless chain of progression.

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

Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.

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

As we gradually learn to harness the optimal computing capacity of matter, our intelligence will spread through the universe at (or exceeding) the speed of light, eventually leading to a sublime, universe wide awakening.

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.

As you awaken you go beyond the need to perform and achieve when you go beyond it, you begin to develop an increased susceptibility to the love extended by others as well as the uncontrollable urge to extend it. Love becomes what you are.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

At last He is healed of his self-doubt. Now what is happening ? He is awakening To his souls ecstasy-sun.

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!

Awakening into love is a lifelong path.

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 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.

At the dawn of the 19th century, the country was awakening to its enormous scope and variety.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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