1,235 Quotes About Awakening

You should understand the whole purpose of listening to teachings, taking teachings and studying them is to put them into practice. What you know should be put into practice immediately; you can thus derive the benefit of having some transformation within your mind. Even though it might be a very minor effort, a very small practice just leaving imprints within your mind, still you must think that it is worthwhile to do. Otherwise your knowledge of dharma will be quite fruitless.

A mind committed to compassion is like an overflowing reservoir - a constant source of energy, determination and kindness.

The Son symbolizes the hope of humanity, bringing light to the darkness of our material existence, and reuniting us with the divinity of our own higher nature.

Let yourself become that space that welcomes any experience without judgement.

Sometimes, it becomes necessary for you to hit the bottom, and hit really hard that it awakens you.

Suffering, in fact, can be helpful in many ways. It spurs your motivation and as many teachings point out, without suffering there would be no determination to be free from samsara. Sadness is an effective antidote to arrogance.

Past Karmas can't be settled one by one. They get settled all at once, in a single moment, when you realize that all of this is a dream. You didn't do anything you think you did.

Awakening is the greatest acceptance of nature.

You have eternity to experience your awakened self. So why not enjoy the dream while you’re in it, even if it is limited?