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Quotes About Awakening

Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
~ Jack Kornfield
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
It takes years for average persons in the nagual's world to remove themselves from their involvement with themselves and be capable of seeing the wonder of it all.
~ Florinda Donner
Only a spiritual being has awareness.
~ Chick Corea
Mental alertness is not awareness. Mental alertness only enhances your survival instincts. It does not take you towards liberation.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
When we become connected to the supreme spirit then we automatically becomes situated in our spiritual identity.
~ Bhakti Charu Swami
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
It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
~ Eckhart Tolle
I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Meditation is one of the ways in which the spiritual man keeps himself awake.
~ Thomas Merton
A global awakening can only happen from a spiritual awakening that is of global dimensions.
~ Matthew Fox
We don't sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we'll be more awake in our lives.
~ Pema Chodron
Wherever we may come alive, that is the area in which we are spiritual.
~ David Steindl-Rast
Once you realize that the way you exist right now is not enough, that there is something more, your spiritual process has already begun.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
No more materialism, no more this egoism, I must become spiritual.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Become conscious of being conscious.
~ Eckhart Tolle
My boat strikes something deep. At first sounds of silence, waves. Nothing has happened; Or perhaps everything has happened. and I am sitting in my new life.
~ Rumi
We neither need a political revolution nor a religious revolution. What we need is an inner transformation in human beings.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
Discerning placement of a comma does not atone for a spiritual coma.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
The dance goes from realizing that you're separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are.
~ Ram Dass
I am not a spiritual guy, but all of a sudden I felt the need to really feel things.
~ Scott Baio
You are all the Buddha.
~ Gautama Buddha
When we start to believe stories about how life works that come from anywhere else but within, we have set ourselves up for a crash course in getting a spiritual wake-up call!
~ Mastin Kipp