Top 62 Awakening Consciousness Quotes
#1. It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
Adrienne Rich
#2. Each soul must awaken from the aloneness of a private dream world to greet the morning sun, view the sweet earth, apprehend the great silence, and demonstrate an appreciative thanks to everyday of life by living in a rapt state of attentive awareness.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#3. The path of nonviolence is the path of respect. It is respect towards every being. It is the path of awakening the consciousness of every being.
Amit Ray
#4. Awakening into the God state makes all the perceptual limitations of the mind disappear, just like a bucket of muddy water turns crystal-clear once poured into the ocean.
Abhijit Naskar
#5. A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.
Vernon Howard
#6. The Heart of what you are is not your body or your thoughts but pure Consciousness itself.
J.M. Harrison
#7. Knowing the Truth is not based on knowledge, but on being "it".
Vivian Amis
#9. It was Adam Appleby's misfortune that at the moment of awakening from sleep his consciousness was immediately flooded with everything he least wanted to think about
David Lodge
#10. If life were a highway, I would still look for the footpath, for walking that, I would learn about us, enjoying the extra time to do so.
Tom Althouse
#11. Teo had once claimed that human history began with a storm: the interval between lightning and thunder, between flash and rumble felt in the body's core, was primitive man's first experiences of time
the awakening of consciousness, the birth of the gods.
Max Gladstone
#12. Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone who wakes up, or who, still asleep, realizes that what is taken to be real is a 'dream' is going crazy.
R.D. Laing
#13. Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist ...
Ernest Gellner
#14. Carson's writing initiated a transformation in the relationship between humans and the natural world and stirred an awakening of public environmental consciousness. It
Rachel Carson
#15. To understand what is right meditation there must be an awareness of the operation of one's own consciousness, and then there is complete attention.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#16. I am perceiving everyone, including myself, as an awakening being who is here to claim his or her birthright to the higher consciousness planes of unconditional love and oneness.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#18. We are therefore constantly on the road, straying from one mental image to the next, and identify with these images, and derive our identity from the images.
Frank M. Wanderer
#19. When you discover the difference between consciousness and the brain, you will discover yourself.
Jenna Alatari
#20. Be formless. As long as your "I" is asserted, it will be an idol of worship
AainaA-Ridtz
#21. We cannot perceive what we are not vibrationally a part of.
We cannot be affected by an experience of evil, when we are focused on peace, harmony and love.
Raphael Zernoff
#22. We all woke up this morning and we had with it the amazing return of our conscious mind. We recovered minds with a complete sense of self and a complete sense of our own existence - yet we hardly ever pause to consider this wonder.
Antonio R. Damasio
#23. I see the awakening of consciousness as a series of spaced flashes, with the intervals between them gradually diminishing until bright blocks of perception are formed, affording memory and a slippery hold.
Vladimir Nabokov
#24. When Holy God draws near in true revival, people come under terrible conviction of sin. The outstanding feature of spiritual awakening has been the profound consciousness of the Presence and holiness of God.
Henry Blackaby
#26. The most fundamental exercise is self-observation, which is the catalyst for inner change, it will give self-knowledge and a clear mind and perception. Without it, the attempt to reach enlightenment and awaken consciousness is destined to fail.
Belsebuub
#27. Spiritual awakening refers to a dramatic expansion in consciousness rather than a minor realization about oneself.
Jordan Jacobs
#28. Human consciousness is now being drawn inexorably toward the same issues, the gaze of collective attention focused like never before.
Anodea Judith
#29. Everything with no exception is a choice. The choice can be either conscious or unconscious depending on the level of self-awareness.
The more self-aware we become, the faster we can make our unconscious choices known to us.
Raphael Zernoff
#30. The Bosnian Genocide was something that triggered my consciousness and led to an awakening politically for me.
Maajid Nawaz
#31. Indigo, the deep blue contains an abundance of sapphires shining their light through the density, awakening and stirring our consciousness. In the daylight the sea will change, but for now it remains mysterious, obtainable through our imagination.
Jennifer Lynch
#32. First you must face your own reality in the present, here and now! If you fail to do that, if you do not obtain first-hand experience from it, there will be no deep, far-reaching changes in you.
Frank M. Wanderer
#33. The only real service we can render to that which we perceive and interpret in phenomenal existence as 'others' is by awakening to universal consciousness ourselves.
Wei Wu Wei
#34. Through radical generosity, we are awakening in people an in built divine consciousness of His goodness.
Bill Johnson
#35. We are only able to get into the possession of Wisdom and get closer to Truth when and if we realize that all the knowledge and experience concentrated in the mind only hamper us in our awakening to Truth.
Frank M. Wanderer
#36. That higher awakening is called God-consciousness. In that condition, you will see that all the objects of the world are your own universal self.
Krishnananda Saraswati
#37. In the course of our Journey we need to realize that we do not need to become anything, because we are already in possession of the characteristics that we have been looking for so far, pursuing an image projected into the future.
Frank M. Wanderer
#38. He remained, weeks after awakening, in that period of early-morning consciousness that allows easy re-entry to dreaming. His limbs still tingled with the residue of sleep, and most days he wanted badly to allow it to overtake him again.
Dave Eggers
#39. Although an increasing number of humans are undergoing a process of awakening, identification with thinking is still the prevalent state of consciousness. Thinking is potentially a powerful tool, but it has taken us over, and a lot of it is dysfunctional and negative.
Eckhart Tolle
#40. Sure all life's highways at some point must end,
so I plan to ride it in style and plummet in a swan dive
when the pavement runs out ...
And hopefully leave behind artistically
that which may make other roads
an even better ride ...
Tom Althouse
#41. First we have to understand that we are not the mind! We are identical with neither its bright, nor its dark side!
Frank M. Wanderer
#42. It is only by embracing the full spectrum of human consciousness that we can bring about a true awakening of the heart
Anodea Judith
#43. If you have to wait for a long time, you have to seize hold of the waiting or it will become destructive. If you let things slide, your consciousness will waver, awakening fear and restlessness, then depression strikes, and you're pulled down.
Peter Hoeg
#44. The awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step for mankind.
Eckhart Tolle
#45. You are consciousness dressed in form, my love. Consciousness is divine. Matter is divine. Creation is divine. Everything is divine. Are you somehow the only exception?
Martha N. Beck
#46. We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.
Simone Weil
#47. The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call 'reality' may be the greatest myth of all.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#48. The life of your dreams begins with the unfolding of consciousness from within.
Jiulio Consiglio
#49. Each person is a speck of consciousness that is attempting to awaken and return to its point of origin, to the source. That is life's true journey and story.
Belsebuub
#50. It's perfectly normal, perfectly natural to live in sleep. But to wake up is a revolution in consciousness. To wake up is to break free of nature. To wake up is to rise and unite with the spirit, and nature doesn't do that for us.
Belsebuub
#51. The degree to which your Consciousness expands, is the degree to which you understand yourself and the universe.
Gina Charles
#53. It was the ultimate celestial orgasm and I felt like a cup overflowing with plenty. The pulse of God moving through me brought such intense pleasure that I felt I might burst like the ripest berry in the sun.
Linda Cull
#55. The solution to the problem of the day is the awakening of the consciousness of humanity to the divinity within.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#56. Psychology, so dedicated to awakening human consciousness, needs to wake itself up to one of the most ancient human truths: we cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet.
James Hillman
#57. Perfection is, however, not to be sought in the future, as we are fully capable of experiencing it here and now, if we abandon ourselves into the present moment and allow the pleasure of Existence take us with it.
Frank M. Wanderer
#59. Since ancient times the term awakening has been used as a kind of metaphor that points to the transformation of human consciousness. There are parables in the New Testament that speak of the importance of being awake, of not falling back to sleep.
Eckhart Tolle
#60. It is not how many times we get lost, but how many times we seek the path, again and again, that determines our level of consciousness.
Vironika Tugaleva
#61. Dream's evanescence, the way in which, on awakening, our thoughts thrust it aside as something bizarre, and our reminiscences mutilating or rejecting it - all these and many other problems have for many hundred years demanded answers which up till now could never have been satisfactory.
Sigmund Freud
#62. Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up?
Anna Deavere Smith
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