Top 200 Awakening Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses.”

— Alan Watts

52. “The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.”

— Paul Valéry

53. “Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?”

— Leonard Ravenhill

54. “Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

55. “Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go and it will be yours forever.”

— Deepak Chopra

56. “Be less of a judge and you will be surprised that when you become a witness and you don’t judge yourself, you stop judging others too. And that makes you more human, more compassionate, more understanding.”

— Osho

57. “Everything will come right if you are pure and sincere. We want hundreds like you bursting upon society and bringing new life and vigor of the spirit wherever they go.”

— Swami Vivekananda

58. “Mind is there, in front of you. Don’t log in.”

— Mooji

59. “Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go.”

— Mooji

60. “You are not a problem that needs solving.”

— Eckhart Tolle

61. “If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.”

— Thomas Merton

62. “Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.”

— Eckhart Tolle

63. “The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.”

— Dan Millman

64. “The pollution of the planet is only an outward reflection of an inner psychic pollution: millions of unconscious individuals not taking responsibility for their inner space.”

— Eckhart Tolle

65. “If you completely accept something, it changes. If you completely accept it, it shifts.”

— Eckhart Tolle

66. “Fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up.”

— Veronica Roth

67. “If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity.”

— Eckhart Tolle

68. “Being must be felt. It can’t be thought.”

— Eckhart Tolle

69. “Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

70. “As you are, so is the world.”

— Ramana Maharshi

71. “True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.”

— Eckhart Tolle

72. “Take off the veil of hypnotism which you have cast upon the world, send not out thoughts and words of weakness unto humanity.”

— Swami Vivekananda

73. “Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.”

— Ramana Maharshi

74. “Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.”

— Eckhart Tolle

75. “All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.”

— Eckhart Tolle

76. “When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.”

— Paulo Coelho

77. “You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are.”

— Alan Watts

78. “Learn from nature. See how everything gets accomplished and how the miracle of life unfolds without dissatisfaction or unhappiness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

79. “Not to be able to stop thinking is an affliction, but we don’t realise this because almost everybody is suffering from it.”

— Eckhart Tolle

80. “All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

81. “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, but are spiritual beings having a human experience.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

82. “A change of circumstance happens as a result of a change in your state of consciousness.”

— Neville Goddard

83. “If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.”

— Franz Kafka

84. “Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?”

— Danielle LaPorte

85. “The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.”

— Rumi

86. “Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.”

— Mason Cooley

87. “The future never comes. Life is always now.”

— Eckhart Tolle

88. “Wherever you are, be there totally.”

— Eckhart Tolle

89. “Yoga is not just doing some exercise, it is much more. It is to expand your awareness, sharpen your intellect and enhance your intuitive ability.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

90. “Man’s chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness.”

— Neville Goddard

91. “To follow the path, look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master.”

— Sengcan

92. “You create your own reality.”

— Jane Roberts

93. “Every being is a spark of the Divine, or God. Look into the eyes of the dog and sense that innermost core. When you are present, you can sense the spirit, the one consciousness, in every creature and love it as yourself.”

— Eckhart Tolle

94. “Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this ‘reality’ as you view your dreams.”

— Marcus Aurelius

95. “Instead of fighting the darkness, you bring in the light.”

— Eckhart Tolle

96. “The only reason we don’t have revival is because we are willing to live without it!”

— Leonard Ravenhill

97. “Create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.”

— Eckhart Tolle

98. “Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”

— Frank Herbert

99. “Only that day dawns to which we are awake.”

— Henry David Thoreau

100. “The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh