In this article, we collected 50 spiritual awakening quotes to support your spiritual journey and inspire you to move beyond your limits.
Spiritual awakening requires moving beyond your limited perception of reality and gaining a broader and clearer perspective. When you raise your consciousness onto a higher level, you become more aware of reality as it exists beyond the confines of the self.
When reading the spiritual awakening quotes below, remember that words alone will not bring about awakening within you. It is a deep understanding that is required within your soul to be truly awakened.
Here they are – 50 spiritual awakening quotes to support your spiritual journey!
50 Spiritual Awakening Quotes
#1
“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” – Carl Jung
#2
“We are all equally capable of spiritual awakening. It may not seem that way, at times. Some of us are so caught up in the drama of our day-to-day existence that we have lost track of who we really are. But eventually, all of us will make the discovery of our true nature.” – Victor Shamas
#3
“We are not the only ones affected by our recovery. The spiritual awakening heals the world one person at a time.” – Marta Mrotek
#4
“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
#5
“Maturity is the ability to think, speak, and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.” – Samuel Ullman
#6
“You can have a spiritual awakening and discover a new side of you at any age. And best of all, love can happen at any age. Life can just start to get exciting when you’re in your 40s and 50s. You have to believe that.” – Salma Hayek
#7
“In the place of stillness, rises potential. From the place of potential, emerges possibility. Where there is possibility, there is choice, and where there is choice, there is freedom!” – Gabrielle Goddard
#8
“Awakening is dynamic. Constantly evolving in accordance with life’s realities. Unfolding from ego-self to compassionate self. From enclosed self to open self. From foolish self to enlightened self.” – Taitetsu Unno
#9
“In spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to things that please us while relinquishing things that do not matter to us. A lukewarm yearning for awakening is not enough to sustain us through the difficulties involved in letting go. It is important to understand that anything that can be lost was never truly ours, anything that we deeply cling to only imprisons us.” – Jack Kornfield
#10
“The essence of spirituality is, to be constantly aware of the oneness of all; at the same time to celebrate the uniqueness of the individual.” – Jaggi Vasudev
#11
“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
#12
“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.” – Louis L’Amour
#13
“Your greatest awakening comes, when you are aware about your infinite nature.”― Amit Ray
#14
“The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.” – Sivananda
#15
“We are ready to awaken when we don’t have any more doubts or any more questions about who we are.” – Roxana Jones
#16
“The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love.”- Marianne Williamson
#17
“Through spiritual maturity, you will see new ways to avoid unnecessary suffering; wiser ways to endure unavoidable hardships with grace, and opportunities to turn your pain into lessons of service and healing for others. Your hard journey has had a great purpose! Your pain was always a part of a plan to open your heart to love. Have faith. A miracle is happening in your life; the miracle of pain is transforming you to your highest self.” – Bryant H. McGill
#18
“It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is.” – Christy Turlington
#19
“I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It’s a journey of recovery. It’s a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It’s already there.”- Billy Corgan
#20
“When we awaken to our truth, we realize we are free.” ― Kristi Bowman
#21
“It is best to emphasize again and again that spiritual awakening has nothing to do with reaching a divine state. Rather, it is the acknowledgment that every moment is about accepting life’s divinity.” – Steve Leasock
#22
“The enlightened give thanks for what most people take for granted…. As you begin to be grateful for what most people take for granted, the vibration of gratitude makes you more receptive to good in your life.” – Michael Bernard Beckwith
#23
“The most amazing and strange thing about awakening to the truth of oneness is that there is no such thing as oneness as an isolated phenomenon.” ― Anam Thubten
#24
“In order to save myself, I must destroy first the me I was told to be.” – The Dreamer
#25
“Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.” – Eckhart Tolle
#26
“The awakening is finally realizing that you are a part of God, like a single cell that finally sees it is a part of you.” – L.J. Vanier
#27
“It’s exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.” – Adrienne Rich
#28
“Awakening means you’ve come home to yourself, that consciousness shifted back to its original nature.” – Maria Erving
#29
“The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be.” – Shakti Gawain
#30
“A global awakening can only happen from a spiritual awakening that is of global dimensions.” – Matthew Fox
#31
“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
#32
“The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.” – Ram Dass
#33
“The next time you find yourself in some way trying desperately to land safely, your compassion might be what finally gives you the courage you need to let go of the controls. In doing so, you might discover that each time you let go, it becomes easier and easier to re-enter the atmosphere of your own aliveness. Gradually you’ll come home to the flow of your own living presence, the warmth and space of your awakening heart.”- Tara Brach
#34
“Awakening is about liberating yourself from the prison that is the world of the mind and daring to be here as all that you are.” – Leonard Jacobson
#35
“Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.” – G. I. Gurdjieff
#36
“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
#37
“If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?” – Dogen
#38
“The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best that is in us. It is only through our own personal awakening that the world can be awakened. We cannot give what we do not have.” – Marianne Williamson
#39
“Awakening means you’ve come home to yourself, that consciousness has shifted back to its original nature.” – Anonymous
#40
“True happiness comes not when we get rid of all of our problems, but when we change our relationship to them, when we see our problems as a potential source of awakening, opportunities to practice, and to learn.”- Richard Carlson
#41
“We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy false standards. Only by such rude awakenings can we be led to dwell in a place where we are less cramped, less hindered by the ever-insistent External. Only then do we discover a new capacity and appreciation of goodness and beauty and truth.”- Helen Keller
#42
“If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.” – Gail Sheehy
#43
“Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it’s not you; it’s the spirit world.” – Tommy Chong
#44
“First, we become aware of that which is Divine around us. Then we become aware of that which is Divine within us. Finally, we become aware that all is Divine, and that there is nothing else. This is the moment of our awakening.” – Neale Donald Walsch
#45
“When you are evolving into a higher-self, the road may seem lonely but you’re simply shedding the energies that no longer match the frequency of your destiny.” – Anonymous
#46
“Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.”― Ramana Maharshi
#47
“Awakening is not changing who you are but discarding who you are not.” – Deepak Chopra
#48
“Once you awaken you will have no interest in judging those who sleep.” – James Blanchard
#49
“Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.” – Sam Harris
#50
“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?” – Rumi
We hope you are inspired by these spiritual awakening quotes as much as we are!