Spiritual Awakening Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old spiritual awakening quotes, spiritual awakening sayings, and spiritual awakening proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

The degree to which your Consciousness expands, is the degree to which you understand yourself and the universe. Gina Charles
True education is awakening a love for truth...opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life. David O. McKay
Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that. Adyashanti
Awakening means you've come home to yourself, that consciousness shifted back to its original nature. Maria Erving
The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace. Kate Chopin
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul. Swami Vivekananda
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. Henry Miller
Want Truth more than you want to awaken and the awakening takes care of itself. Maria Erving
True religion comes not front the teaching of men or the reading of books; it is the awakening of the spirit within us, consequent upon pure and heroic action. Swami Vivekananda
You think of yourselves as humans searching for a spiritual awakening, when in fact you are spiritual beings attempting to cope with a human awakening. Seeing yourselves from the perspective of the spirit within will help you to remember why you came here and what you came here to do. Neale Donald Walsch
Be kind to yourself as you proceed along this journey. This kindness, in itself, is a means of awakening the spark of love within you and helping others to discover that spark within themselves. Tsoknyi Rinpoche
I looked in temples churches and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart. Rumi
To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something. Lao Tzu
History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster. Douglas Macarthur
The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path. Larry Dossey
The heart is the hub of all sacred places. Go there and roam in it. Sri Nityananda
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. Dalai Lama
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you? Rumi
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. Edith Wharton
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
This is bravery. Using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart. Sakyong Mipham
Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictability of life as it unfolds. Pema Chodron
As you awaken to your divine nature, you'll begin to appreciate beauty in everything you see, touch and experience. Wayne Dyer
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having. Henry Miller
Recognize that you have the courage within you to fulfill the purpose of your birth. Summon forth the power of your inner courage and live the life of your dreams. Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives. Pema Chodron
The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw and knew I saw all things in God and God in all things. "Mechthild "
The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero. Maxwell Anderson
The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening. Gratitude is peace. Anne Lamott
For most people, spiritual awakening is a gradual process. Rarely does it happen all at once. When it does, though, it is usually brought about by intense suffering. Eckhart Tolle