Quotes about Awakening

Reality Itself is a Revelation of What Is.  It is inherently egoless and of a Transcendental Spiritual Nature.  It can be given directly, but it cannot be achieved as a result of any effort whatsoever.  It can only be Directly Revealed, and thereupon Realized.  No answers to your questions, no techniques that could be Spoken or practiced by you are relevant to this Realization.  Realization is simply about Awakening to That Which Is Always Already the Case As It Is--not ideas about It, not to a practice of inverting on It somehow--just As It Is now.  This is counter to every egoic impulse--not what 'you' are about--but senior to them.  Your 'self' as currently identified is the only obstruction to this Realization, which is much more than mental recognition.  To dream without fear--that is the Attraction fully surrendered to.

Reality Itself is a Revelation of What Is.  It is inherently egoless and of a Transcendental Spiritual Nature.  It can be given directly, but it cannot be achieved as a result of any effort whatsoever.  It can only be Directly Revealed, and thereupon Realized.  No answers to your questions, no techniques that could be Spoken or practiced by you are relevant to this Realization.  Realization is simply about Awakening to That Which Is Always Already the Case As It Is--not ideas about It, not to a practice of inverting on It somehow--just As It Is now.  This is counter to every egoic impulse--not what 'you' are about--but senior to them.  Your 'self' as currently identified is the only obstruction to this Realization, which is much more than mental recognition.  To dream without fear--that is the Attraction fully surrendered to.

In the Oneness / Awakened state the insights and experience of all arising in and as the Divine, and the Divine being everywhere and everything (beyond consciousness, the Self, and the mindbody package) has been obvious. This has been consistently tested by life and the obviousness, and the freedom which this brings, fluctuated accordingly.

Despite the freedom of the Oneness state I was aware that the mind was still going, I was still buying into it and really when I felt into it I was still suffering in a way that I thought would have finished many years before. There felt to be lots of changes but essentially I was still the same mess that I had always been, albeit with a more mature stance and view of things.

A true insight occurs in a moment, a split second, and it brings a subtle shift in your perspective. The 'experience' which surrounds the insight is generally entirely superfluous and is merely the Self or mindbody package attempting to own and understand the insight.

It is all so very simple but this simplicity will not be seen via your familiar vision of looking at everything via the running commentary of your mind informancy. Awakening to the state of the natural man will only come about through you consciously choosing to move from this, that already is - and this you are very capable of.

"When the truth get's buried deep beneath a thousand years of sleep, time demands a turnaround.. And once again the truth is found."

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.

For most women, beauty and body issues are the easiest path to awakening, because the pain is so very close to the surface and the inner critic’s voice is the easiest to hear. The beauty of awakening is getting this, down to your bones, so that the world no longer needs to play our internal dramas on the backdrop of life. We can watch the drama as it comes and goes, maybe making a genuine wise crack, or just laughing at our own antics.

We stop looking to manifest abundance; we are abundance. Even without a job. Even when you give away the majority of what you create. Even when there is no one but ourselves standing at the finish line to thank us for doing out part to help save the world.

The sense of being somebody special (a legend in our own mind!) helps immunize “I” against the bare facticity of its own mortality, here-and-now instability, and innate insubstantialness.

Even when “I” dreams of transcending itself - as in those programs that have (or advertise) as their central agenda the eradication of ego - it is still an “I” who has now achieved the incomparable goal of self-transcendence! “Look, Ma, no ego!” we announce as we unicycle past our rapt inner audience, too proud to notice our pride, forgetting that self-conceit persists well into advanced transpersonal stages of development.

In our craving to be somebody special - and don't forget that we may find our specialness through being “nobody” - we bypass exploration of that very craving, committing far more of our passion to fulfilling our dreams than to actually awakening from them.

-Robert Augustus Masters, Darkness Shining Wild, p.58

Your life has an inner purpose and an outer purpose. Inner purpose concerns Being and is primary. Outer purpose concerns doing and it is secondary. Your inner purpose is to awaken. It is as simple as that. You share that purpose with every other person on the planet - because it is the purpose of humanity. Your inner purpose is an essential part of the purpose of the whole, the universe and its emerging intelligence. Your outer purpose can change over time. It varies greatly from person to person. Finding and living in alignment with the inner purpose is the foundation for fulfilling your outer purpose. It is the basis for true success. Without that alignment, you can still achieve certain things through effort, struggle, determination, and sheer hard work or cunning. But there is no joy in such endevor, and it invariably ends in some form of suffering.

Those who awaken never rest in one place.
Like swans, they rise and leave the lake.
On the air they rise and fly an invisible course.
Their food is knowledge.
They live on emptiness.
They have seen how to break free.
Who can follow them?

THE JOURNEY IS FROM HERE TO HERE. AND THE ONLY TIME YOU CAN ARRIVE IS NOW.

We might sometimes reflect and recall that the purpose of all our science, technology, industry, manufacturing, commerce, and finance is celebration, planetary celebration.  This is what moves the stars through the heavens and the earth through its seasons.  The final norm of judgment concerning the success or failure of our technologies is the extent to which they enable us to participate more fully in this grand festival.

The Great Arcanum is the Science and Art of Awakening the Consciousness.  It is that which takes the common Human into the realm of the Gods.

My Soul’s Marriage

A commitment to your own and
the world’s transformation.

For the Benefit of myself and All Beings.

I,            (my ego & personality)

Do solemnly swear
to love, honor and obey my soul,
my path to realization  and
relationship with a higher,
deeper creative power,
for better or worse,
for richer or poorer,
in sickness and in health,
from now and forever more.

I searched and waited and when
no enlightenment happened,
I knew I was That.
~ Darina Stoyanova ~

Be naked in the splendor of the truth of who you are.
~ Gangaji ~

If we stay with our feelings about the world situation, if we acknowledge what is already there, if we work our own trauma residue, we can collectively, alchemically change the lead into gold, moving our hearts forward, using all that is as a vehicle for awakening.

If we stay with our feelings about the world situation, if we acknowledge what is already there, if we work our own trauma residue, we can collectively, alchemically change the lead into gold, moving our hearts forward, using all that is as a vehicle for awakening.

Everything within my life - without exception - is a revelation and expression of That which is the Source of my own inevitable Awakening.

Ultimately, awakening awareness is experiential. Alone, offered 'truth' is but more words in a world too cluttered with pretentious words. Experiencing 'truth' will affect a permanent change in you.
<posted of C.G.'s Zaadz blog>

Who you are is this "motion of seeing" that is looking through your eyes right now. When you stop at and as this "motion of aliveness" - by consciously refocusing your attention to this seer; by coming to being deeply at rest at and as this one that is the "you" that you can never get away from; by no longer furthering out from this "you" and into the attempt to try and be something that is notyou; you are immediately freed from who you think you are in every given moment of this realization.

True happiness is completely causeless; it is not reliant on a thing; it is its own reward, its own pleasure. It is immutable and immovable even as it is constantly changing and forever increasing in its movement into its own manifestation.

Your true home is in being deeply at rest at and as the heart of existence itself, the "you" that you truly are and have always been.  The heart is totally free of everything even as it contains everything, sustains everything and is flowing through everything - without any paradox or contradiction to any of it.