Awakening Quotes - Page 4

Be formless. As long as your "I" is asserted, it will be an idol of worship

You are one thing only. You are a Divine Being. An all-powerful Creator. You are a Deity in jeans and a t-shirt, and within you dwells the infinite wisdom of the ages and the sacred creative force of All that is, will be and ever was.

The degree to which your Consciousness expands, is the degree to which you understand yourself and the universe.

When the soul is consciously awakened can it comprehend the acquiescence of Muhammad, the unshakable foundation of Abraham and the very nature of Christ, equating the Aleph in the sealed Universe - As The Soul Speaks

The only human disease is amnesia.

Awakening is not a journey of discovering a distant land or a coveted secret, but rather, it is a journey of surrendering to what has always been present but shrouded in illusion and disillusion.

No spiritual master who ever walked the earth has anything on you. You're the complete package, the real deal. You just don't remember it yet.

Follow the light of your intuition, and keep away from the darkness of convention.

The Illusion - The source of suffering can be linked back to a condition of the mind that creates the illusion of separation-the state in which we see ourselves as disconnected and separate from the world and our experiences.

Awake my soul, the glory of the Lord is upon me.

The idea of death has been associated with the fear of the unknown, and the punishment or reward for our life choices. There is no punishment, and there is no reward.
We punish ourselves instantly, when we choose to be destructive. We reward ourselves, when we choose being our loving selves.

For aeons past, there were many gods who descended to be humans, yet there were not many humans who ascended back to their divinity.

True freedom is when all the stories, all the insights, all the realizations, concepts, beliefs and positions dissolve. What remains is what you are; a vast, conscious, luminous space simply resting in itself, not knowing a thing, at the point where all things are possible.

The one who believes himself to be a person needs to try to find that person. This is a solution, an antidote, offered to a ghost that thinks it actually exists.

You aren’t actually a someone, a person, who is conscious. You are the awake space of awareness itself, within which all the “thought up” entities in your world appear. Out of all these imagined entities, you have simply made the mistake of thinking that one of them is you.

It’s only the ego that wants to surrender the ego; the real meaning of surrender does not involve anything external. It means to surrender to your true nature.

Not knowing anything, not searching for anything, understanding that we can’t hold on to anything, leaves us with nothing - nothing except our original nature, pure awareness.

Awareness is that which is reading these words right now, whatever “that” is. You know without a doubt that there is something reading these words right now and awareness is precisely what that is.

Anything that appears and disappears cannot actually be you because it is being observed by you. By removing the attention from these things and noticing what remains, you are left only with what is permanent - the truth of who you are.

What is constant? Is the mind anything more than a conglomeration of thoughts? Where is the mind apart from thought? If there is no thought, can there be a mind? They cancel each other out, do they not?