1,235 Quotes About Awakening

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

The ego cleverly hides by projecting and by avoiding to look beyond what it merely believes.

Let go of everything that you hold onto, which does not serve you anymore. Be light, walk faster.

A bird is inside a moving car. He is flapping his wings and thinking that car is moving because of him. That is your life: Bird is your soul, car is your body-mind. You say, “There is no satisfaction in the journey.” Guru says, “Detach from the car.” But you panic as soon as you hear the word “detach”. It only means, fly above the car, not inside it.

Even this is paradoxical because even though the ego does all the spiritual practice in the beginning,it’s the Truth that has orchestrated it all.

Mind happily consumes information but it resists transformation. The day you allow yourself to be transformed, a Guru will appear before you in visible or invisible form.

It is the ultimate religion, through which all humans neuropsychologically morph into Buddhas, or Enlightened Beings.

Astrology. Past life, Psychology : There can be different explanations of the same problem. They just help you see that you are inside a loop.Next step should be to distance yourself from what is inside the loop (body-mind) and realize your true self which is already outside the loop.

The deeper the awakening of man is, the nearer he is towards the Truth in completing the task of his transitory existence. And when his time is up, it is, by intrinsic necessity, an inescapably irreversible condition that he should no longer wake up! (— Danny Castillones Sillada, The Sensation of Not Being Dead)