Awakened Mind Quotes

“When blame and self-judgement are transformed, healed, and cease to be, we have reawakened without the myth, the mythos, of separation. We are One.”
― Wendy E. Slater, Into the Hearth, Poems-Volume 14

“Enlightenment is the complete flowering of body, mind and the soul.”
― Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step

“You need to allow yourself at least one or two grand extravagances in your life. Not extras, I’m talking big enchilada extravagances. If you have a dream item, one you’ve always wanted—a fancy car, a vacation home, a luxurious trip—if you can afford it, go for it. You need to get it out of your system, love it, and then move on with life.”
― Art Rios, Let's Talk: ...About Making Your Life Exciting, Easier, And Exceptional

“We may talk lightly but never carelessly. We keep at bay the flow of common, ignorant thought which runs its damaging course through the pathways of ordinary human conversation.”
― Donna Goddard, The Love of Devotion

“Pain is a crucial part of our reality; it awakens a person from a mental stupor. A person must never be afraid to discover where their pain originates, follow pain to where it emanates from, learn from its messages, and reject the mindless business and busyness of contemporary culture in order to fuel an artistic vision of the self.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Mind is eclipsed by many different obscurations; if they are removed, mind’s fundamental nature, like the sun shining brightly in a clear, open sky, can manifest all the qualities of wisdom, compassion, and a Buddha’s abilities.”
― Kalu Rinpoche, Luminous Mind: The Way of the Buddha

“Life went back to normal, after that, as it will do if you're not careful.”
― Michael Montoure, Slices

“Each soul must awaken from the aloneness of a private dream world to greet the morning sun, view the sweet earth, apprehend the great silence, and demonstrate an appreciative thanks to everyday of life by living in a rapt state of attentive awareness.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Accepting that a person will die and shucking off any aversion to this blunt thought awakens the mind to realize what is possible in a human life.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“We are all CONNECTED and I genuinely believe we should never stop absorbing knowledge from those around us. Observe: Gain from another’s experience. We all have something unique to share, so go out and engage the world with compassion, patience and generosity.”
― Rosalie Bardo

“A person can use personal meditation to awaken the mind, eliminate the wildings of the ego, and find bliss by living in accord with cherished ideas. I hope to forge a deep spiritual connection with family, friends, neighbors, and community and effectively and honestly to communicate and interact with other people. I aspire to discover empathic feeling of being “at one with the universe” including acting in harmony with all the people and wildlife that inhabit the world. I also aspire to be comfortable in aloneness, peaceful with only the eternal silence to accompany my heart song.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“We have been psychologically and biologically conditioned to accept this life of constant struggle. This is borne of ignorance that the one who struggles and suffers is only a construct, a belief that there is an individual self apart from consciousness.”
― Vic Shayne, Consciousness: The Potentiality of All Existence: Exploring reality and belief as a subjective experience

“This awareness of awareness is spirituality. As we look inward, feeling out our essential being beyond form and circumstance, realizing that we are, we become conscious of the consciousness that we are. On such an essential level, our very humanity is as relative as personality, age, or occupation.”
― Conor Detwiler, Undividing: Returning to Oneness for the First Time

“Somedays i can make sense of this place, this horrendous fucking world and the way it shapes humans into monsters and monsters into leaders. Building empires off of the poor and using a system designed to manifest the wars?
But then i look to the eyes of my child, i write, i paint, i listen to music that holds beliefs far deeper than mine and i am reminded - for all that is devastating there is equal amounts of ehuphoria, you just have to look a little harder to find the light sometimes.”
― Nikki rowe

“Envision your consciousness as a wondrous garden. Now allow yourself to see all thoughts, descriptions, theories, or beliefs about this garden simply as invasive unneeded weeds. Now gently and completely remove these many unnecessary weeds and observe in absolute silence openness as they are effortlessly replaced by the flowers of enlightenment. Blooming freely, endlessly, and eternally. Such is Wu Wei...There is nothing right or wrong with the weeds I suppose, but for this garden I choose these magnificent flowers...”
― Leland Lewis, Random Molecular Mirroring

“An ordinary human being will perform meditation when he is awake and an extraordinary human being will perform meditation when he is asleep”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Don’t limit yourself based only on what you see in front of you today. You have the potential to turn it around.”
― Germany Kent

“Appreciate
Waking up
Alive,
Knowing
Everything can happen
Now”
― Robert J. Braathe

“There are only two types of people: Sleepers and awake! And there are only two types of sleepers: Those who sleep happily in deep sleep and those who are tired of sleeping in the dark, who want to wake up now! And the purpose of those who are awake is to shed light on those who want to wake up!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Yeshe Tsogyal was a woman: there may be some people who believe that only men can attain enlightenment, but her life is proof of the opposite. In actual fact, the awakened state of mind is neither male nor female.”
― Padmasambhava, Advice from the Lotus-Born: A Collection of Padmasambhava's Advice to the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal and Other Close Disciples

“We are all gifted with the same abilities within, the difference is some realize and awaken those and some chose to ignore the inner call of awakening.”
― Aiyaz Uddin

“The enlightened sages speak of surrender to the guru. This is not to be taken literally as surrender to some personage embodied in a teacher. Instead it means to surrender the belief that you are an individual so that you may embrace what you are as consciousness”
― Vic Shayne, Consciousness: The Potentiality of All Existence: Exploring reality and belief as a subjective experience

“A wave on top of the ocean is still the ocean; it is still made of the same substance. Although it seems to be differentiated, it is still the ocean. It cannot move or change course from the entirety of the ocean, nor can it reorder the ocean so that it can do something that the rest of the water is not doing.”
― Vic Shayne, Consciousness: The Potentiality of All Existence: Exploring reality and belief as a subjective experience

“Unlike these other states of consciousness, ordinary waking consciousness has been optimized by natural selection to best facilitate our everyday survival.”
― Michael Pollan

“I hope you always choose to be a better person than you were yesterday.

- From (The Awakening)”
― Jyoti Patel

“Always remember, relationships take work, things won’t be easy every time, people change and so, acting with wisdom is a necessity to keep the spark alive.

From (The Awakening)”
― Jyoti Patel

“Choose to be a happy person. It’s surely difficult but, not impossible!

From (The Awakening)”
― Jyoti Patel

“Know their fantasies, their dreams, their struggles. Ask what makes them happy. Give them the love you wish to receive and nothing less.

From (The Awakening)”
― Jyoti Patel

“How do you see the world? Is there an actual relationship between you and what you see? To see with silent inner awareness is to see our true relationship with each other and with the natural world. And the essence of that relationship is love.”
― Cynthia Overweg, Silent Awareness: The Revelation That Changes Everything

“It is okay to be a person who is still healing. The truth is that we always will be. It is a forever practice, it is that forever kind of love with yourself.”
― Vivek Chauhan (Vedic astrologer)