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Definition: Awakening

by | Jan 21, 2023 | Root Meanings (Book) | 0 comments

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Awakening

  • A shift in perception from unreality to reality.
  • A shift in perception from finitude and separateness to infinitude and oneness.
  • Reorientation from unreality to reality. (This is also the root meaning of healing. Awakening and healing are fundamentally the same process.)
  • The process of realizing true nature.
  • The process of realizing what is real and true.
  • The process of releasing resistance to Divinity/God/Source.
  • The process of releasing resistance to being Divinity/God/Source.
  • The process of releasing resistance to THE SUPREME.
  • The process of releasing resistance to being THE SUPREME.
  • The process of remembering Divinity/God/Source.
  • The process of remembering being Divinity/God/Source.
  • The process of remembering THE SUPREME.
  • The process of remembering being THE SUPREME.
  • The process of remembering true nature.
  • The process of remembering what is real and true.
  • The process of reorienting from unreality to reality.
  • Awakening follows naturally from releasing resistance to Divinity/God/Source.
  • Awakening follows naturally from releasing resistance to being Divinity/God/Source.
  • Awakening follows naturally from releasing resistance to THE SUPREME.
  • Awakening follows naturally from releasing resistance to being THE SUPREME.
  • Awakening is the illusory ending of an illusory state of unconsciousness.
  • Awakening tends to happen in stages as resistance to Divinity/God/Source, and ultimately to being Divinity/God/Source, is released.
  • Awakening tends to happen in stages as resistance to THE SUPREME, and ultimately resistance to being THE SUPREME, is released.
  • Awakening is transcended in the total recognition of THAT which YOU are.
  • Awakening is transcended when unawakeness is totally forgotten.
  • In apex awakeness, awakening is totally transcended as there can be no unawakeness.

Sayings:

  • “Only awakeness is. Awakening is opening to what is. An awakening moment is opening to this moment.”
  • “What is the true cost of awakening? Everything we hold on to that isn’t true.”
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