Awakening quotes

Only the Truth is and you are That!
~ Papaji

The only obstacle to your enlightenment is the belief that you are not enlightened.
~ Ramana Maharshi

Nothing was ever born but a dream. Nothing ever dies but a dream.
 ~ Byron Katie

The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

If you knew your own beauty, you'd be the idol of yourself.
~ Rumi

If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs - that is your success.
~ Henry David Thoreau

Like water, which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.
~ Indra Devi

What we are looking for - is what is looking.
 ~ Saint Francis of Assisi

You are the truth from foot to brow. Now what else would you like to know?
~ Rumi

Take off your shoes. The ground where you stand is holy ground.
~ Exodus 1:5-6

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
~ Jalal ad-Din Rumi

Awakening is not an event, it's an ever-deepening unfoldment into living and embodying our divine essence in a fully human way.
~ Karen McPhee

If there are six billion people, then there are six billion ways to awaken.
~ Anandamayi Ma

Liberation is not liberation from life. It's a liberation to live more fully.
~ Dorothy Hunt

...the very act of seeking keeps us from resting, and it is only when we are at rest that our true nature reveals itself.
~ Rita Marie Robinson

We can all relax, and let life do all the work.
~ Pamela Wilson

...the thing I thought I wanted, I really don't want and the thing I do need, I already have. ~
 D. at State Prison, California

You are wanted totally, completely, by your own self. Freedom wants you as its own.
~ Gangaji