Inspiring Spiritual Awakening Quotes and Phrases

Spiritual awakening means inner awakening. It means expanding your consciousness beyond your present reality and beyond your mind and body. It is expanding your consciousness beyond limits. It is taking your awareness beyond the body and the ego.

Spiritual awakening is like bursting your consciousness beyond the Earth, and out, into outer space. In this state, your consciousness goes beyond limits. In this state, there is inner peace and happiness, undisturbed by whatever is happening around you.

When you are spiritually awake you realize your Inner Self, and who you really are. You realize that you are an inseparable part of the Cosmos.

One can live an ordinary life, have a job and family, be active in the world, and yet, enjoy a state of spiritual awakening.

Meditation, the development of concentration and positive emotional detachment are some of the steps toward gaining spiritual awakening and enlightenment.

Spiritual Awakening Quotes and Phrases

“You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.”
– Swami Vivekananda

“Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.”
– Ramana Maharshi

“The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.”
– Sivananda

“Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.”
– G. I. Gurdjieff

“The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.”
– M. Scott Peck

“Be kind to yourself as you proceed along this journey. This kindness, in itself, is a means of awakening the spark of love within you and helping others to discover that spark within themselves.”
– Tsoknyi Rinpoche

“All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.”
– Swami Vivekananda

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
– Albert Einstein

“Attachment is the main thing that is blocking your path towards enlightenment.”
– Garchen Rinpoche

“Enlightenment, joy, and peace can never be given to you by another. The well is inside you.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.”
– Immanuel Kant

“When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.”
– Joseph Campbell

“If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.”
– Ramana Maharshi

“Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people.”
– Mother Teresa

“The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.”
– Ram Dass

“Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.”
– Eckhart Tolle

“Awakening means you’ve come home to yourself, that consciousness shifted back to its original nature.”
– Maria Erving

“Awareness of the world around you, without thoughts and without thinking is a big step toward spiritual awakening.”
Remez Sasson

“First, we become aware of that which is Divine around us. Then we become aware of that which is Divine within us. Finally, we become aware that all is Divine, and that there is nothing else. This is the moment of our awakening.”
– Neale Donald Walsch

“‘I exist’ is the only permanent self-evident experience of everyone. Nothing else is so self-evident as ‘I am’. What people call self-evident, that is, the experience they get through the senses, is far from self-evident. The Self alone is that. So to do self-enquiry and be that ‘I am’ is the only thing to do. ‘I am’ is reality. I am this or that is unreal. ‘I am’ is truth, another name for Self.”
– Ramana Maharshi

“Enlightenment must come little by little – otherwise it would overwhelm.”
– Idries Shah

“Spiritual awakening is like opening all the windows and letting the sun and the light fill your room.”
– Remez Sasson

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
Lao Tzu

“Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead it’s about becoming more fully human. It is the end of ignorance.”
– Lama Surya Das

“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”
– Gautama Buddha

“Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”
– Abraham Maslow

“That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.”
– Eckhart Tolle

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