Top 200 Awakening Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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2. “Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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3. “Be aware that what you think, to a large extent, creates the emotions that you feel. See the link between your thinking and your emotions. Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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4. “As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love – even the most simple action.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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5. “What a liberation to realize that the ‘voice in my head’ is not who I am. ‘Who am I, then?’ The one who sees that.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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6. “Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.”

— Ramana Maharshi

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7. “If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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8. “Your life, all of your life, is your path to awakening. By resisting or not dealing with its challenges, you stay asleep to Reality. Pay attention to what life is trying to reveal to you. Say yes to its fierce, ruthless, and loving grace.”

— Adyashanti

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9. “You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything else. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find Peace.”

— Ramana Maharshi

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10. “Revival is a renewed conviction of sin and repentance, followed by an intense desire to live in obedience to God. It is giving up one’s will to God in deep humility.”

— Charles Grandison Finney

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11. “To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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12. “Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken. Take heed, do not squander your life.”

— Dōgen

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13. “Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”

— Rumi

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14. “You are not your mind.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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15. “You are here to enable the divine purpose of the Universe to unfold. That is how important you are!”

— Eckhart Tolle

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16. “Don’t let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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17. “There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”

— C.G. Jung

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18. “You can’t live at all unless you can live fully now.”

— Alan Watts

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19. “You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.”

— Pema Chödrön

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20. “Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?”

— Rumi

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21. “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”

— Buddha

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22. “Suffering begins when you mentally label a situation as bad. That causes an emotional contraction. When you let it be, without naming it, enormous power is available to you. The contraction cuts you off from that power, the power of life itself.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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23. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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24. “This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.”

— Rumi

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25. “Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?”

— Eckhart Tolle

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26. “To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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27. “Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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28. “The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep! You must ask for what you really want. Don’t go back to sleep! People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don’t go back to sleep!”

— Rumi

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29. “The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

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30. “Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. In the depths there is a spring with all the water your heart is thirsty for.”

— Rumi

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31. “There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.”

— Anthony de Mello

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32. “I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.”

— Ram Dass

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33. “In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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34. “This is the pathless path. Where the journey leads is to the deepest truth in you. It is really just returning to where you were initially before you got lost.”

— Ram Dass

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35. “You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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36. “You have no need to travel anywhere – journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.”

— Rumi

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37. “Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.”

— Ramana Maharshi

38. “In the stillness of the mind I saw myself as I am – unbound.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

39. “Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.”

— Ram Dass

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40. “Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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41. “When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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42. “To change the world is not your mission. To change yourself is not your duty. To awaken to your true nature is your opportunity.”

— Mooji

43. “Awakening is not changing who you are, but discarding who you are not.”

— Deepak Chopra

44. “If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion and peace.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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45. “Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more – more unseen forms become manifest to him.”

— Rumi

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46. “Love is the recognition of oneness in the world of duality.”

— Eckhart Tolle

47. “All problems are illusions of the mind.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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48. “Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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49. “Life is the dancer and you are the dance.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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50. “I’m not a teacher, but an awakener.”

— Robert Frost

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