Awakening Quotes

Meditation takes you out of your mind and possibly into the future, negative thoughts are quicksands that keeps you glued to your past.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Every broken heart has one time or another asked, What is important to me now?

~ Shannon L. Alder

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.

~ Sadhguru

Awakening is the ultimate of religion. Religion is, not really, in believing something outside of your being. It is not in believing or following some authoritative figure, the church, temple, organization or any ideological system of belief. Religion is trusting in what is eternal within you.

~ Banani Ray

As a rule,I believe people shouldn't follow rules;rules should follow people.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call 'reality' may be the greatest myth of all.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Nothing reminds us of an awakening more than rain.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

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.

~ Jared Brock

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.

~ Robbie Vorhaus

Vipassana meditation is not an intellectual journey but an experiential awakening.

~ Amit Ray

Living on the verge is not about doing more, but about being more. It isn’t about achieving more; it’s about experiencing more. It’s not about being someone different, as there ’s no “better versionof you” on the horizon. Everything you’re searching for is available to you in this moment. Everything you need is right here on the verge.

~ Cara Bradley

Developing humans has nothing to do with developing their skills. Developing humans is about getting them in connection with their primitiveness and what their Instinct guide them to what they should do in life. Afterwards any efforts to skill them will pay off immediately. We get humans to connect with their core primitiveness and instinct through readings, meditating, loving, awakening them, and maybe make them notice how life can enhance all.

~ Sameh Elsayed

If you're searching for something out in the world to bring you happiness, wealth or love, then you are in for a tough journey. The key to success is never out there, but rather within. It is merely a side effect of awakening the divine within!

~ Erin Fall Haskell

As we discard a limited mind and a life of limitation to step into the grandness of vastness, we realize infinity itself to be the Guru and all that we do as grace. As we traverse through consciousness that is the Guru, we become the Guru and each thought of ours is perfect in the now, as scriptures. Consciousness is the Guru, the wisdom.

~ Nandhiji

Everything will be okay as soon as you are okay with everything. And that is the only time everything will be okay.

~ Michael Singer

I leave my human nature to unfold according to its destiny. I remain as I AM.

~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

True freedom is when all the stories, all the insights, all the realizations, concepts, beliefs and positions dissolve. What remains is what you are; a vast, conscious, luminous space simply resting in itself, not knowing a thing, at the point where all things are possible.

~ Enza Vita

When you are truly awakened, you have completely stopped trying to become awakened. You simply are. You know that you did not locate awakening; awakening located you.

~ Enza Vita

All paths are valid, but in the end you will find that the realization of the ultimate truth is a pathless path.

~ Enza Vita

Being enlightened ironically means realizing that there is no separate entity that can be enlightened or unenlightened.

~ Enza Vita

It’s only the ego that wants to surrender the ego, the real meaning of surrender does not involve anything external. It means to surrender to your true nature.

~ Enza Vita

Realization includes everything, the mundane and the transcendental. In true awakening, nothing stands apart and nothing is excluded. If we find ourselves in a state where something is excluded, that state, however amazing it is, is still a dualistic state.

~ Enza Vita

You aren’t actually a someone, a person, who is conscious. You are the awake space of awareness itself, within which all the “thought up” entities in your world appear. Out of all these imagined entities, you have simply made the mistake of thinking that one of them is you.

~ Enza Vita

Realization is not about you, the wave, realizing it is ocean. The ocean realizes itself in you and reveals itself to have never been just a wave. Nothing changes except the falling away of a false belief.

~ Enza Vita

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.

~ Enza Vita

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.

~ Enza Vita

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.

~ Enza Vita

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.

~ Enza Vita

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.

~ Enza Vita

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.

~ Enza Vita

At the moment of enlightenment, everything is dropped—body, mind, all states, all things—everything. At that moment, there is no separate entity that can become enlightened, because there is no I that can experience it.

~ Enza Vita

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.

~ Enza Vita

Anything that appears and disappears cannot actually be you because it is being observed by you. By removing the attention from these things and noticing what remains, you are left only with what is permanent — the truth of who you are.

~ Enza Vita

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.

~ Enza Vita

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.

~ Enza Vita

We may be focused on looking forward and upward yet looking inward can be the easiest path to take.

~ Raphael Zernoff

True wisdom is being able to say 'it is what it is' with a smile of celebratory wonder on your face.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

The point of the overall meditative path is to have Wakefulness (or Consciousness as Such) transcend and include all state-realms, so it ceases to “black out” or “forget” various changes of state (such as dreaming and deep sleep), and instead recognizes a “constant Consciousness” or ever-present nondual Awareness, the union (and transcendence) of individual finite self and infinite Spirit.

~ Ken Wilber

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.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

When you can no longer tell the difference between being yourself and being love, you are not far from waking up.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal