1,235 Quotes About Awakening

This awareness of awareness is spirituality. As we look inward, feeling out our essential being beyond form and circumstance, realizing that we are, we become conscious of the consciousness that we are. On such an essential level, our very humanity is as relative as personality, age, or occupation.

The more we are illuminated, the more we want others to experience that also. We can't help but be generous and giving, because self and other is one, and the nature of self and the nature of other is one; it is true nature giving itself to itself. (p. 9)

We are still too much a part of the story of what is happening to religious consciousness to assess its meaning.

Peaceful and graceful exit from life is second best thing that can happen to a human being. The best is of course enlightenment.

A scientist is more doubtful of his theories than the science teacher who teaches those theories. A Guru is more doubtful of his words than his followers because he knows that everything except silence is a corruption of truth.

There is a beautiful custom in India: On her first Makar Sakranti after marriage, the bride pretends to awaken her in-laws who pretend to be deep asleep. Similar thing happens between the Guru and seekers. God inside seekers is pretending to be deep asleep. God inside Guru pretends to awaken them. It's all a divine play.

He had the funny feeling that doors long bolted within him were being forced, that in the general amnesty of carnival something jailed in him since puberty was being let out— somewhat by mistake— into the open air, to be welcomed by the cheering mob.

Be an open space for whatever arises. Notice that you are the space in which everything arises. When everything is allowed to arise, you have the opportunity to perceive That which does not arise or subside. You Are That. (p. 32)

Who am I? Meditate on that. Seek the Seeker. (p. 32)