Awakening Quotes

580 Awakening quotes by 382 unique authors

Our business is to wake up. We have to find ways in which to detect the whole of reality in the one illusory part which… — Aldous Huxley
Those who dream must be awakened, and the deeper the people are who slumber, or the deeper they slumber, the more important it is that… — Soren Kierkegaard
Most people are unhappy; and they are unhappy because there is no love in their hearts. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Freedom lies outside the pattern of society; but to be free of that pattern you have to understand the whole content of it, which is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
You can be creative only when there is abandonment-which means, really, there is no sense of compulsion, no fear of not being, of not gaining,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
It is necessary for all of us to awaken in ourselves this spirit of cooperation, for then it will not be a mere plan or… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge is the whole… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
To understand what is right meditation there must be an awareness of the operation of one's own consciousness, and then there is complete attention. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
As long as you ask questions you are breaking through, but the moment you begin to accept, you are psychologically dead. So right through life… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
A mind that practices love cannot love. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love is the most practical thing in the world. To love, to be kind, not to be greedy, not to be ambitious, not to be… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
In the search for reality, energy creates its own discipline. But mere discipline, without full comprehension of all this, has no meaning, it is a… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Meditation is the process of understanding your own mind. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have? — Jiddu Krishnamurti
When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Goodness, generosity, or love does not come into being save through the search for reality. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Mere isolation in an enclosing idea is not a release from conflict. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Only when the mind is tranquil-through self-knowledge and not through imposed self-discipline-only then, in that tranquillity, in that silence, can reality come into being. It… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Being discontented, we either seek a different job or merely succumb to environment...instead of causing us to question life, the whole process of existence. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
We are empty shells if we do not possess, if we do not fill our life with furniture, with music, with knowledge, with this or… — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Who Wrote These Awakening Quotes

382 authors contributed a total of 580 Awakening Quotes, led by these top contributors: