Awakening Quotes


Awakening quotes celebrate those moments when we shift our consciousness and see life though the eyes of our divine essence. Awakened beings develop an awareness of their true spiritual natures. This awareness stimulates ethical actions in harmony with our true nature. We are all called to awaken from the deep sleep of unconsciousness. I hope self observation and growing inner awareness stimulates many awakenings and illuminations in your life.



The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Emily Dickinson

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Alva Edison

Every night, when I go to sleep, I die. Every morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
Mahatma Gandhi

May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.
Thich Nhat Hanh

Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Carl Jung

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.
Carl Jung

When you realize that suffering and discomfort are the call to inquiry, you may actually begin to look forward to uncomfortable feelings. You may even experience them as friends coming to show you what you have not yet investigated thoroughly enough.
Byron Katie

In spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to things that please us while relinquishing things that do not matter to us. A lukewarm yearning for awakening is not enough to sustain us through the difficulties involved in letting go. It is important to understand that anything that can be lost was never truly ours, anything that we deeply cling to only imprisons us.
Jack Kornfield

From wonder into wonder existence opens.
Lao Tzu

A soulmate is the one person whose love is powerful enough to motivate you to meet your soul, to do the emotional work of self-discovery, of awakening.
Kenny Loggins

Realize how good you really are.
Og Mandino

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
Abraham Maslow

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
Henry Miller

What is [the role of money] in the search for meaning? Is our relationship to it one of the chief factors that keeps us in our prison, or could it also be a tool for breaking out, for awakening to a life filled with intensity of purpose?
Jacob Needleman

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
M. Scott Peck

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden Philpotts

Earth, ourselves, breathe and awaken, leaves are stirring, all things moving, new day coming, life renewing.
Pawnee Prayer

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust

How much longer will you go on letting your energy sleep? How much longer are you going to stay oblivious of the immensity of yourself?
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

It’s exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
Adrienne Rich

Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey!
Rumi

Is death the last step? No, it is the final awakening.
Sir Walter Scott

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
Gail Sheehy

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery

The light of unconditional love awakens the dormant seed potentials of the soul.
John Welwood

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.
Marianne Williamson



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