Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought. — Eckhart Tolle
We take spiritual initiation when we become conscious of the Divine within us, and thereby contact the Divine without us. — Dion Fortune
Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally. — Ram Dass
The world is ready for a mystic revolution, a discovery of the God in each of us. — George Harrison
True teaching is not an accumulation of knowledge; it is an awakening of consciousness which goes through successive stages. — Egyptian Proverbs
The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love. — Marianne Williamson
It's in that convergence of spiritual people becoming active and active people becoming spiritual that the hope of humanity now rests. — Van Jones
Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is. — Alan Watts
Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have. — Robin Lim
The spiritual journey is not about acquiring something outside yourself, rather, you are penetrating deep layers and veils to return to the deepest truth of your own being. — Ram Dass
Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment. — Morihei Ueshiba
Spiritual life is like living water that springs up from the very depths of our own spiritual experience. In spiritual life everyone has to drink from his or her own well. — Bernard of Clairvaux
As you awaken to your divine nature, you'll begin to appreciate beauty in everything you see, touch and experience. — Wayne Dyer
The first act of awe, when man was struck with the beauty or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience. — Henryk Skolimowski
Your trials did not come to punish you, but to awaken you - to make you realise that you are a part of Spirit and that just behind the sparks of your life is the Flame of Infinity. — Paramahansa Yogananda
Christian Spiritual Awakening Quotes
I'm not a prophet of doom, I'm a prophet of love. But love will bid a warning doom to the children who play on the freeway. We need to wake up. — Keith Green
Grace woke you up this morning, grace started you on your way and grace enabled you to survive until this very moment. — Charles E. Blake
There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer. — Arthur Tappan Pierson
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
I was influenced by my children's education in Quaker schools in the Philadelphia area. I experienced a spiritual awakening and became a Christian, was baptized, and joined a church. — Mike Berenstain
Life Spiritual Awakening Quotes
I looked in temples churches and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart. — Rumi
The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be. — Shakti Gawain
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean. — Tony Robbins
Religion is belief in someone else's experience. Spirituality is having your own experience.
The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path. — Larry Dossey
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. — Buddha
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
To awaken spiritual unity, and to spread to others the love that is our inherent nature, is the true goal of human life. — Mata Amritanandamayi
True creativity flows only from stillness. When stillness becomes conscious, the spiritual dimension enters your life and you begin to be guided by an intelligence far greater than the human mind. — Eckhart Tolle
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
The point of the spiritual revolution is not to become a good Buddhist, but to become a wise and compassionate human being, to awaken from our life of complacency and ignorance and to be a buddha. — Noah Levine
Spiritual Awareness Quotes
The most common form of despair is not being who you are. — Soren Kierkegaard
The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.' — Grace Hopper
If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? — Dogen
To grow in unconditional love and in beauty, is spirituality.
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. — M. Scott Peck
When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other. — Margaret J. Wheatley
Each soul in entering the material experience does so for those purposes of advancement towards that awareness of being fully conscious of the oneness with the Creative Forces. — Edgar Cayce
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are. — Eckhart Tolle
The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody. — Ram Dass
It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the 'I Am,' our real presence, can awaken. — G. I. Gurdjieff
If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul — Harold S. Kushner
Spiritual Enlightenment Quotes
However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them? — Buddha
The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed. — Ajahn Sumedho
The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started. — T. S. Eliot
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
Knowledge is another form of God. If someone loves both. So he will get the answers to every question. — Vishesh Panthi
Forces of light on earth shall overcome the force of darkness. Complete spiritual enlightenment on earth will occur. — Edgar Cayce
You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being. — Eckhart Tolle
Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world. — Walter Isaacson
The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self. — Albert Einstein
A burrito is a delicious food item that breaks down all social barriers and leads to temporary spiritual enlightenment. — Lisi Harrison
Soul Awaken Quotes
The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. — Kate Chopin
The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace. — Kate Chopin
The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a
midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person. — Plato
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you? — Rumi
Love is a magic ray emitted from the burning core of the soul and illuminating the surrounding earth. It enables us to perceive life as a beautiful dream between one awakening and another. — Kahlil Gibran
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people stay for awhile, and move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. — Flavia Weedn
The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude. — Kate Chopin
the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls — Friedrich Nietzsche
The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul. — Maxim Gorky
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man. — Ibn Arabi
Music is a science, it heals depression, it awakens, most people don't know, they just take music for an entertainment, something to dance to, and enjoy yourself and you go to bed and forget it tomorrow, music must never be forgotten, it's like a fountain that keeps on flowing — Peter Tosh
The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her. — Bob Marley
We shall awaken from our dullness and rise vigorously toward justice. If we fall in love with creation deeper and deeper, we will respond to its endangerment with passion. — Hildegard of Bingen
You never identify yourself with the shadows cast by your body, or with its reflection, or with the body you see in a dream or in your imagination. Therefore you should not identify yourself with this living body either. — Adi Shankara
Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world. — Ramana Maharshi
Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be — Alan Watts
We are awakening to that marvelous truth, that Christ is not in the heavens only, nor the atmosphere only, but Christ is in you. — John G. Lake
Our confidence in Christ does not make us lazy, negligent, or careless, but on the contrary it awakens us, urges us on, and makes us active in living righteous lives and doing good. There is no self-confidence to compare with this. — Huldrych Zwingli
Reawakening Quotes
My botanical documents should contribute to restoring the link with nature. They should reawaken a sense of nature, point to its teeming richness of form, and prompt the viewer to observe for himself the surrounding plant world. — Karl Blossfeldt
Surrealism! What is Surrealism? In my opinion, it is above all a reawakening of the poetic idea in art, the reintroduction of the subject but in a very particular sense, that of the strange and illogical. — Paul Delvaux
Lent comes providentially to reawaken us, to shake us from our lethargy. — Pope Francis
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn. — Henry David Thoreau
If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine. — John Eldredge
If Americans want prosperity, we need a grand reawakening to the incontrovertible fact that its source is entrepreneurs unfettered by meddling politicians. — Star Parker
Zionism has gained my full sympathy and I appreciate
it much higher than what is called nationalism in modern
France. It is a progressive movement, a reawakening,
of which I expect a lot for the entire civilization. — Tomas Garrigue Masaryk
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to re-commit, to be whole-hearted once again. — Sharon Salzberg
America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land. — Ronald Reagan
Mercy is the very foundation of the Church's life...The Church's very credibility is seen in how she shows merciful and compassionate love...Mercy is the force that reawakens us to new life and instills in us the courage to look to the future with hope. — Pope Francis
Spiritual Transformation Quotes
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds — Paul the Apostle
All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us. — Richard Rohr
The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation. — Dwight L. Moody
If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself, if you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation. — Lao Tzu
Do not try to fix whatever comes in your life. Fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes, you will be fine. — Jaggi Vasudev
Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. ... Everything science has taught me-and continues to teach me-strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. Nothing disappears without a trace. — Wernher Von Braun
The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from...Circumcision of the heart. — Dallas Willard
The key is to be in a state of permanent connectedness with your inner body - to feel it at all times. This will rapidly deepen and transform your life. The more consciousness you direct into the inner body, the higher its vibrational frequency becomes. — Eckhart Tolle
In terms of changes, the spiritual mentors teach me that I must not forget those relating primarily to improve myself. — Chico Xavier
We are all hypocrites in transition. I am not who I want to be, but I am on the journey there, and thankfully I am not whom I used to be. — Erwin McManus
Enlightenment is a destructive process. It
has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the
crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing
through the facade of pretence. It's the
complete eradication of everything we
imagined to be true. — Adyashanti
Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing. — Ajahn Chah
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. — Carl Jung
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. — Buddha
Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it. — Osho
The people to become enlightened in Atlantis lit the "flame of enlightenment" on earth for the first time. The members of the various mystery schools have kept the flame alive by passing on the secret techniques for attaining enlightenment from the time of Atlantis to our present day. — Frederick Lenz
All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become. — Buddha
To an Earthkeeper, love is not a feeling or something your barter with. Love is the essence of who you are, and it radiates from you as a brilliant aura: You become love, practice fearlessness, and attain enlightenment. — Alberto Villoldo
You are made in the image of what you desire. — Thomas Merton
If you really want peace of mind and inner calm, you will get it. Regardless of how unjustly you have been treated, or how unfair the boss has been, or what a mean scoundrel someone has proved to be, all this makes no difference to you when you awaken to your mental and spiritual powers. — Joseph Murphy
During the year 1957, I experienced, by the grace of God, a spiritual awakening which was to lead me to a richer, fuller, more productive life. At that time, in gratitude, I humbly asked to be given the means and privilege to make others happy through music. I feel this has been granted through His grace. ALL PRAISE TO GOD. — John Coltrane
Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening. — G. I. Gurdjieff
History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster. — Douglas MacArthur
The heart is the hub of all sacred places. Go there and roam. — Bhagawan Nityananda
As you smell the fragrance of a flower by handing it or the smell of sandalwood by rubbing it against a stone, so you obtain spiritual awakening by constantly thinking of God. — Sarada Devi
When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake. — P.D. Ouspensky
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
To stay with that shakiness-to stay with a broken heart, with a rumbling stomach, with the feeling of hopelessness and wanting to get revenge-that is the path of true awakening. Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path. — Pema Chodron
Our heart knows what our mind has forgotten - it knows the sacred that is within all that exists, and through a depth of feeling we can once again experience this connection, this belonging. — Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Do not allow yourself to suppress your thoughts. Instead, let the thoughts come before you and become a sort of observer. Start observing your own mind. Do not try to escape; do not be afraid of your thinking. — Rama Swami
When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by. — Ajahn Chah
All our theories of improving the world, while we are still asleep, merely intensify the sleep of humanity. — Maurice Nicoll
When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the supreme state will come to you uninvited and unexpected. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
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. — Ken Keyes Jr.
If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness. — Lao Tzu
When it comes to spiritual teachers, there are those safe, gentle, consoling, soothing, caring; and there are the outlaws, the living terrors, the Rude Boys and Nasty Girls of God realization, the men and women who are in your face, disturbing you terrifying you, until you radically awaken to who and what you really are. — Ken Wilber
It appears that America's anti-Biblical feminist movement is at last dying, thank God, and is possibly being replaced by a Christ-centered men's movement which may become the foundation for a desperately needed national spiritual awakening. — Jerry Falwell
Love is how it feels to recognize our essential unity. Awakening to oneness is the experience of Big Love. Knowing you are one with all, you find yourself in love with all. — Timothy Freke
The true spiritual secret is this: what you seek, you already are. True success is discovering your inner divinity~ it's the ability to love and have compassion, trust your intuition, and awaken to your unlimited creative nature. — Deepak Chopra
There is one thing that, when cultivated and regularly practiced, leads to deep spiritual intention, to peace, to mindfulness and clear comprehension, to vision and knowledge, to a happy life here and now, and to the culmination of wisdom and awakening. And what is that one thing? It is mindfulness centred on the body — Buddha
Don't fear the light within. May it ignite the Sacred Flame in your soul. — Paulo Coelho
Before it incarnates, each soul enters into a sacred contract with the Universe to accomplish certain things. It enters into this commitment in the fullness of its being. Whatever the task that your soul has agreed to, all of the experiences of your life serve to awaken within you the memory of that contract, and to prepare you to fulfill it. — Gary Zukav
No great spiritual awakening has begun anywhere in the world apart from united prayer. — J. Edwin Orr
Our original nature is...void, omnipresent, silent, pure; it is glorious and mysterious peaceful joy - and that is all. Enter deeply into it by awakening yourself. — Huangbo Xiyun
In the next 30 years we can destroy our world. With the very same powers - spiritual, social, scientific - we can evolve our world. Our mission is to serve as catalysts for a planetary awakening in our lifetime, to take a non-violent path to the next stage of our evolution. — Barbara Marx Hubbard
When you awaken spiritually, in fact, you can use thought much more effectively than before, but you realize there is a depth to your Being, a vibrantly alive stillness that is much vaster than thought. It is consciousness itself, of which the thinking mind is only a tiny aspect. — Eckhart Tolle
You know, when real trouble comes your humanity is awakened. The fundamental human experience is that of compassion. — Joseph Campbell
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