#awakening

From this moment, then, deem yourself worthy of living as a mature person who is making progress.

The voice of beauty speaks softly: it steals only into the most awakened souls.

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be.

You are already that which you are seeking.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

But one must learn to know oneself in order to know who one is.

God has attached me to this city as to a great and noble horse which is sluggish by reason of its size and needs to be stirred by a gadfly.

All true learning is nothing other than recollection, the awakening of what the soul already carries within itself.

The feeling of meaninglessness is not a disease, but the most human of all achievements—the awakening of conscience.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake.

To love truth with all one's soul requires having unmasked every comforting lie of the ego.

Awaken the giant within your own consciousness.

When ego dies, truth is born.

Awaken to the unbroken reality of pure Being.

The future of mankind lies in the awakening of the spiritual mind.

I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You do not see that the One is in your home, and so you wander from forest to forest listlessly.

The arrow of the master's word struck my heart; it pierced through illusion and awakened the sleeping soul.

The sun rises and sets, the seasons cycle endlessly, yet the fool remains asleep in the cradle of delusion.

People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The dawn wind carries the fragrance of eternity: wake up, breathe deeply, and begin anew.

Let your laughter be like spring rain that awakens the dormant seeds of joy across the earth.

We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.

Thus we are sucked away into the future—and we are incapable of actually living one minute of our life.

Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

True rebellion is not against society; true rebellion is against your own unconsciousness.

Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will set, and you with it.