Top 200 Awakening Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.”

— Eckhart Tolle

102. “Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you’re not saved yourself, be sure of that!”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

103. “Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.”

— William Wordsworth

104. “Maybe you are the key to revival in your church.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

105. “We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.”

— Marianne Williamson

106. “All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step.”

— Paulo Coelho

107. “Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.”

— Nhat Hanh

108. “In the space of no-mind, truth descends like light.”

— Osho

109. “I let go of my need to control and allow the Universe to do her thing.”

— Gabrielle Bernstein

110. “Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

111. “Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.”

— Jonathan Edwards

112. “I am not waiting for a move of God, I am a move of God!”

— William Booth

113. “Do not try to fix whatever comes in your life. Fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes, you will be fine.”

— Jaggi Vasudev

114. “Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don’t take your thoughts too seriously.”

— Eckhart Tolle

115. “The awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step for mankind.”

— Eckhart Tolle

116. “Meditation is the journey from sound to silence, from movement to stillness, from a limited identity to unlimited space.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

117. “The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.”

— Ramana Maharshi

118. “Within the spiritual journey you understand that suffering becomes something that has been given to you to show you where your mind is still stuck. It’s a vehicle to help you go to work. That’s why it’s called grace.”

— Ram Dass

119. “When you live in surrender, something comes through you into the world of duality that is not of this world.”

— Eckhart Tolle

120. “One thing we do know: Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

121. “The power of now can only be realized now. It requires no time and effort. Effort means you’re trying hard to get somewhere, and so you are not present, welcoming this moment as it is.”

— Eckhart Tolle

122. “Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.”

— Eckhart Tolle

123. “If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.”

— Gospel of Thomas

124. “The world is me and I am the world.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

125. “Thoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that they are more or less relevant.”

— Adyashanti

126. “There is only one of us. One consciousness manifesting into different forms.”

— Ram Dass

127. “Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you have at this moment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

128. “You can be very much aware that when you are stressed, it always is a sign you have lost the present moment. So, you can choose to re-enter the present moment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

129. “Thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence.”

— Eckhart Tolle

130. “Realize that enough hidden strength lies within you to overcome all obstacles and temptations. Bring forth that indomitable power and energy.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

131. “Our intentions create our reality.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

132. “He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.”

— Ramana Maharshi

133. “The Winter Solstice is the time of ending and beginning, a powerful time – a time to contemplate your immortality. A time to forgive, to be forgiven, and to make a fresh start. A time to awaken.”

— Frederick Lenz

134. “Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.”

— Ramana Maharshi

135. “Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to “die before you die” – and find that there is no death.”

— Eckhart Tolle

136. “Jesus did not come into the world to make bad men good. He came into the world to make dead men live!”

— Leonard Ravenhill

137. “No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. The pulpit can be a shop window to display one’s talents; the prayer closet allows no showing off.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

138. “For many people, illness – loss of health – represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness of your own mortality, the greatest loss of all.”

— Eckhart Tolle

139. “If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.”

— Byron Katie

140. “Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.”

— Eckhart Tolle

141. “The present moment holds the key to liberation. But you cannot find the present moment as long as you are your mind.”

— Eckhart Tolle

142. “Your heart is the light of this world. Don’t cover it with your mind.”

— Mooji

143. “I AM is a feeling of permanent awareness. The very center of consciousness is the feeling of I AM. I may forget who I am, where I am, what I am, but I cannot forget that I Am. The awareness of being remains, regardless of the degree of forgetfulness of who, where, and what I am.”

— Neville Goddard

144. “We are not human beings in search of a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings immersed in a human experience.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

145. “When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.”

— Eckhart Tolle

146. “I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation.”

— John Wesley

147. “I’d rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

148. “Awareness of the inner body is consciousness remembering its origin and returning to the Source.”

— Eckhart Tolle

149. “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.”

— Rumi

150. “The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening.”

— Adi Shankara