Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not
something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If the caterpillar
thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying ‘And then I shall
have wings and antennae, there will never be a butterfly.
The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation.
When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar
remains.
“Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.”
- Ramana Maharshi
- Ramana Maharshi
“Once
the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From
then on, you are inflamed with a special longing that will never again
let you linger in the lowlands of complacency and partial fulfillment.
The eternal makes you urgent. You are loath to let compromise or the
threat of danger hold you back from striving toward the summit of
fulfillment.”
- John O’Donohue
“As
soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No
reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. … That is why people are
always searching for a meaning to life… Meaning is only found when you
go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery
and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind.”
- Anthony de Mello
“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.”
- Unknown
“When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.”
- P.D. Ouspensky
“You are your master. Only you have the master keys to open the inner locks.”
- Amit Ray
“No
one and nothing outside of you can give you salvation, or free you from
the misery. You have to light your own lamp. You have to know the
miniature universe that you yourself are.”
- Banani Ray
“Awakening
is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to
be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If the caterpillar thinks about the
butterfly it is to become, saying ‘And then I shall have wings and
antennae, there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept
its own disappearance in its transformation. When the marvelous
butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.”
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
“Remember seeker, our earthly perceptions of reality are just an illusion.”
- Unknown
“Awakening
is the ultimate of religion. Religion is, not really, in believing
something outside of your being. It is not in believing or following
some authoritative figure, the church, temple, organization or any
ideological system of belief. Religion is trusting in what is eternal
within you.”
- Unknown
“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.”
- Shavasti
“I leave my human nature to unfold according to its destiny. I remain as I AM.”
- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“When
you are truly awakened, you have completely stopped trying to become
awakened. You simply are. You know that you did not locate awakening;
awakening located you.”
- Unknown
“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.”
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