145 Inspirational Spiritual Awakening Quotes on Embracing a Higher Consciousness

These spiritual awakening quotes will inspire self-improvement and long-term positive change.

Spiritual awakening involves moving beyond your limited reality and gaining a broader and clearer perspective.

When you make the shift to a higher level of consciousness, you become more aware of reality as it exists beyond the confines of the self.

Having a spiritual awakening leads to self-realization and a well-adjusted existence.

It leads you to a blissful and content life.

No matter the circumstances of your life, you’ll enjoy a stress-free natural existence.

Just like a butterfly emerges from its cocoon, when you finally reach that state of spiritual enlightenment, you’ll be able to spread your wings and find your true self and your true path.

It will allow you to experience a sense of inner peace, a feeling of purification, and have more compassion and empathy.

Though it can be a painful process as it requires you to make difficult choices on how you move forward and live with your new perspective, once your inner transformation to a higher level of consciousness is complete, you’ll be happy that you went through the whole experience.

To celebrate the shift to higher consciousness, below is our collection of inspirational, wise, and positive spiritual awakening quotes, spiritual awakening sayings, and spiritual awakening proverbs, collected from various sources.

Spiritual awakening quotes celebrating enlightenment

1. “We are not the only ones affected by our recovery. The spiritual awakening heals the world one person at a time.”  – Marta Mrotek

2. “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

3. “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

4. “You are heir to a heavenly fortune, the sole beneficiary of an infinite spiritual trust fund, a proverbial goldmine of sacred abundance beyond all common measure or human comprehension. But until you assert your rightful inheritance of this blessed gift, it will remain unclaimed and forever beyond your reach.” – Anthon St. Maarten

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. “It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.” – Eckhart Tolle

7. “Within you lies opportunity to grow in spirit. Keep your feet on the earth, but lift your face towards the heavens. Surrender to the light with a tranquil mind, and a heart full of the love of God.” – White Eagle

8. “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

9. “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

10. “Be kind to yourself as you proceed along this journey. This kindness, in itself, is a means of awakening the spark of love within you and helping others to discover that spark within themselves.” –  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

Spiritual awakening quotes to help you lead a blissful and content life

11. “Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” – Buddha

12. “Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.” – Eckhart Tolle

13. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein

14. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love.”-  Marianne Williamson

15. “The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself – this is called life.” – Swami Vivekananda

16. “The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.” – Sivananda

17. “The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.” – M. Scott Peck

18. “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

19. “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

20. “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” – C.G. Jung

Spiritual awakening quotes to inspire self-improvement and long-term positive change

21. “The solution to the problem of the day is the awakening of the consciousness of humanity to the divinity within.” – Hazrat Inayat Khan

22. “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

23. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Alva Edison

24. Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow.” – Neale Donald Walsch

25. “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

26. “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

27. “It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.”- Robert Musil

28. “Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness.” – Sri Chinmoy

29. “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

30. “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

Spiritual awakening quotes to celebrate a higher shift in consciousness and understanding

31. “Times are difficult globally; awakening is no longer a luxury or an ideal. It’s becoming critical. We don’t need to add more depression, more discouragement, or more anger to what’s already here. It’s becoming essential that we learn how to relate sanely with difficult times. The earth seems to be beseeching us to connect with joy and discover our innermost essence. This is the best way that we can benefit others.” – Pema Chodron

32. “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

33. “Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.”- Vernon Howard

34. “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

35. “There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.” – Louis L’Amour

36. Upon awakening, let the words Thank You flow from your lips, for this will remind you to begin your day with gratitude and compassion.” – Wayne Dyer

37. “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

38. “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

39. “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

40. “He who is free in the body, but bound in the soul is a slave; but on the contrary he who is bound in the body, but free in the soul, is truly free.” – Epictetus

Spiritual awakening quotes that celebrate the journey of life

41. “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

42. “History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.” – Douglas MacArthur

43. “Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.”- Mahatma Gandhi

44. “It isn’t until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are – not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within – that you can begin to take control.”- Oprah Winfrey

45. “Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force – that thoughts rule the world.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

46. “Once you awaken you will have no interest in judging those who sleep.” – James Blanchard

47. “The spiritual path – is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don’t know it.” – Marianne Williamson

48. “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

49. “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

50. “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

Spiritual awakening quotes to broaden your thoughtss

51. “If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.” – Gail Sheehy

52. “That is the real spiritual awakening when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. – Unknown

53. “The true awakening takes place within.” – ATGW

54. “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

55. “We are ready to awaken when we don’t have any more doubts or any more questions about who we are.” – Roxana Jones

56. “Awakening is not changing who you are but discarding who you are not.” – Deepak Chopra

57. “Awakening means you’ve come home to yourself, that consciousness has shifted back to its original nature.” – Anonymous

58. “Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.”― Ramana Maharshi

59. “Your greatest awakening comes, when you are aware about your infinite nature.”― Amit Ray

60. “When we awaken to our truth, we realize we are free.”― Kristi Bowman

Spiritual awakening quotes to lift you

61. “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

62. “Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man’s faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.” – Giacomoco Puccini

63. “All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.” – Swami Vivekananda

64. “I experienced by the grace of God a spiritual awakening, which was to lead me to a richer, fuller, more productive life.” – John Coltrane

65. “The awakening of consciousness is the next step for mankind.” – Eckhart Tolle

66. “In order to save myself, I must destroy first the me I was told to be.” – The Dreamer

67. “Awaken to your true potential and live the life of your dreams.” – ATGW

68. “Spirituality does not lie in meditating the body of an ex-master. Spirituality exists in mediating on your own inner body.”― Amit Ray

69. “In one moment, we are now forever, in one moment…”― Paul Goldman

70. “It’s the ‘everyday’ experiences we encounter along the journey to who we wanna be that will define who we are when we get there.”― Aaron Lauritsen

Spiritual awakening quotes to live by

71. “As you awaken to your divine nature, you’ll begin to appreciate beauty in everything you see, touch and experience.” – Wayne Dyer

72. “Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.” – Eckhart Tolle

73. “This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.” – Sakyong Mipham

74. “I let go of my need to control and allow the universe to do her thing.” – Gabrielle Bernstein

75. “The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.” – Larry Dossey

76. “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?” – Rumi

77. “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

78. “There is a presence within you that has never suffered. It lives in joy that has no cause. It is who you most deeply are.” – Jan Frazier

79. “Don’t fear the light within. May it ignite the Sacred Flame in your soul.” – Paulo Coelho

80. “The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.” – Adyashanti

81. You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.” – Amit Ray

82. “Enlightenment is the complete flowering of body, mind and the soul.” – Amit Ray

83. “Adversity is a spiritual awaken in every soul.” – Lailah Gifty Akita

84. “Spiritual awakening is like unfollowing who you think you are.” – Frode Gåsland

85. “Spiritual awakening transforms the so-called self-awareness into the realization that the Self is awareness.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana

More spiritual awakening quotes and sayings

86. “A global awakening can only happen from a spiritual awakening that is of global dimensions.” – Matthew Fox

87. “Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.” – Eckhart Tolle

88. “Right now we’re in a special and powerful position, because the world is having a spiritual awakening.” – Gabrielle Bernstein

89. “The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be.” – Shakti Gawain

90. The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening.” – Anne Lamott

91. “Only that day dawns to which we are awake.” – Henry David Thoreau

92. “Awakening your spiritual self is like having a second childhood with faulty parents, broken bones and proverbial brussel sprouts.” – Christopher Hawke

93. “To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something” – Laozi

94. “Spiritual awakening is not ultimately the work of invisible cultural forces. Instead, it is the work of learning to see differently, of prayer, and of conversion. It is something people do.” – Diana Butler Bass

95. “The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti

Insightful Spiritual Awakening Quotes

96. Forgiveness builds mental, emotional and spiritual muscles.” – Iyanla Vanzant

97. “The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it.” – Henri J.M. Nouwen

98. “The more peaceful your mind is, the easier it is to realize what spirituality is.” – Remez Sasson

99. “Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” – E. Cummings

100. “Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the now the primary focus of your life.” – Eckhart Tolle

101. “You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti

102. “Enlightenment must come little by little – otherwise it would overwhelm.” – Idries Shah

103. “The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves.” – Dalai Lama

104. “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.” – Rumi

105. “Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dance, even when we can’t name the tune.” – Deepak Chopra

106. “It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important. You have to do the right thing.” – Gandhi

107. “You should never engage in action for the sake of reward, nor should you long for inaction.” – Bhagavad Gita

108. “The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.” – Swami Sivananda

109. “Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning.” – Sai Baba

110. “On a spiritual journey, we all have the same destination.” – A. R. Rahman

111. “We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.” – Ernest Holmes

112. “That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were.” – Eckhart Tolle

113. “The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero. ” – Maxwell Anderson

114. “The spiritual is inclusive. It is the deepest sense of belonging and participation.” – Rachel Naomi Remen

115. “Want Truth more than you want to awaken and the awakening takes care of itself.” – Maria Erving

Spiritual Awakening Quotes For Soul Nourishment 

116. “It is a sign of failure to have achieved spiritual awakening, to seek happiness in material success.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

117. “A spiritual awakening has the potential to rip apart the fabric of reality as you’ve known it and pull you forward into a new life of conscious growth and evolution.” — Adam Brady

118. All religions are born from individual experiences of divine awakening, not from some books.” — Abhijit Naskar

119. “Spiritually, the Holy Land really stirs you up and starts awakening many things in your life.” — Ken Duncan

120. “A spiritual awakening will likely cause you to revise your spiritual beliefs or adopt significant new ones.” — Carroll Richardson

121. “A teacher or teaching is not essential for spiritual awakening, but they save time.” — Eckhart Tolle

122. “A spiritual awakening can be triggered by anything, from the completely mundane to the completely life-altering.” — Sarah Regan

123. “Spiritual awakenings are complicated, profound, and nothing short of life-changing—in the best way. While they may not be easy, they will improve your life for the better with patience, trial and error, and a bit of time.” — Sarah Regan

124. “Spiritual awakenings aren’t easy, and the alienation and ego-shattering realizations that occur can make anyone feel like they are living in a new reality.” — Sarah Regan

125. “The path of spiritual awakening is the grandest adventure you can ever undertake.” — Adam Brady

Spiritual Awakening Quotes To Enlighten Your Soul

126. “To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.” — Eckhart Tolle

127. “Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don’t know it.” — Marianne Williamson

128. “Spiritual awakening – is becoming awake to the aliveness of this moment.” — Eckhart Tolle

129. “Spiritual awakening is the beginning of your spiritual journey, as you start to question everything you once knew.” — Shannon Kaiser

130. “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

131. “Meditation quiets conscious thought and the physical realm, making a doorway to spiritual awareness.” — Jenna Alatar

132. “Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.” — Meher Baba

133. “No great spiritual awakening has begun anywhere in the world apart from united prayer.” — J. Edwin Orr

134. “The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw and knew I saw all things in God and God in all things.” — “Mechthild”

135. “Spiritual awakening – is becoming awake to the aliveness of this moment.” — Eckhart Tolle

Spiritual Awakening Quotes to Transform and Understand Your Life’s Purpose

136. “When Holy God draws near in true revival, people come under terrible conviction of sin. The outstanding feature of spiritual awakening has been the profound consciousness of the Presence and holiness of God.” ― Henry Blackaby

137. “When there is spiritual awakening, you awaken into the fullness, the aliveness, and also the sacredness of now. You were absent, asleep, and now you are present, awake.” ― Eckhart Tolle

138. “I believe there’s a calling for all of us. I know that every human being has value and purpose. The real work of our lives is to become aware. And awakened. To answer the call.” ― Oprah Winfrey

139. “At the end of the spectrum when you get to that 12th step, when you have that spiritual awakening we make ourselves available to help other people.” ― Daniel Baldwin

140. I could never stop drugs, I could never stop drinking, until I received my spiritual awakening.” ― Mike Tyson

141. “Of course, we are to pray for spiritual awakening, and in various ways we can do something toward it. But we must remember that neither Paul nor Apollos gives the increase.” ~ C. S. Lewis

142. “I was influenced by my children’s education in Quaker schools in the Philadelphia area. I experienced a spiritual awakening and became a Christian, was baptized, and joined a church.” ― Mike Berenstain

143. “My main life interest and purpose is to bring spiritual awakening into this world, to be a vehicle for the flowering of consciousness, to help people to live more consciously with less unnecessary suffering and self-generated unhappiness.” ― Eckhart Tolle

144. “There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer.” ― Arthur Tappan Pierson

145. “As you smell the fragrance of a flower by handing it or the smell of sandalwood by rubbing it against a stone, so you obtain spiritual awakening by constantly thinking of God.” ― Sarada Devi

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Spiritual awakening has many benefits.

It leads to self-realization and can help you lead a blissful and content life.

When you finally reach that higher shift in consciousness and understanding, you’ll be able to enjoy a fulfilled, meaningful life.

Hopefully, the above quotes will inspire you to wake up so that you live the life of your dreams and attain the success you desire.

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