Awakening Quotes

• 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

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Important

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• May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.

  Nhat Hanh

  Flower, Heart, Garden

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “The Energy of Prayer: How to Deepen Your Spiritual Practice: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.104, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Self, Becoming Who You Are, Path

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• Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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

  Gail Sheehy

  Growing, Aging, Old You

  Gail Sheehy (2011). “New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time”, p.429, Ballantine Books

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• Everything comes by being! Be the love you seek. Be the friend you seek. Be the lover you seek. Be the honesty you seek. Be the integrity you seek. Be the patience you seek. Be the tolerance you seek. Be the compassion you seek.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Honesty, Integrity, Love You

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

  Deepak Chopra

  Who You Are

  Twitter post from Oct 31, 2014

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• You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Past

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.91, New World Library

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• 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

  Spiritual, Mean, Men

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• Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

  Giacomo Puccini

  Inspiring, Art, Inspiration

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• The world is like a sheet of paper on which something is typed. The reading and the meaning will vary with the reader, but the paper is the common factor, always present, rarely perceived. When the ribbon is removed, typing leaves no trace on the paper. So is my mind - the impressions keep on coming, but no trace is left.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Reading, Mind, World

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

  John Welwood

  Love, Light, Soul

  John Welwood (2005). “Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart”, p.33, Shambhala Publications

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• Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying ‘And then I shall have wings and antennae,’ there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation. When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Butterfly, Thinking, Wings

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• Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Struggle, Order, Long

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• Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man's life, and it is the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in all its tragic forms, a supreme motive for spiritual awakening?

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Spiritual, Men

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• It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is.

  Christy Turlington

  Positivity, Moments, Process

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• 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.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Mind, World, Prison

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• True progress comes not through action, but through awakening.

  Alan Cohen

  Progress, Action

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

  Steven Tyler

  Grief, Sorrow, Sometimes

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• 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

  Beach, Nature, Ocean

  1899 The Awakening, ch.6.

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• Those who look outside, dream. Those who look inside, awaken.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Dream, Looks

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• The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best that is in us. It is only through our own personal awakening that the world can be awakened. We cannot give what we do not have.

  Marianne Williamson

  Giving, Purpose, World

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• You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

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