50+ Dorothy Hunt Quotes on Presence, Awakening, & More

This page lists some of the all-time best Dorothy Hunt quotes. Enjoy!

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Mind & Thinking Quotes
Presence & Present Moment Quotes
Spirituality & Self-Inquiry Quotes
Awakening & Enlightenment Quotes
Duality & Nonduality Quotes

50+ Dorothy Hunt Quotes on Presence, Awakening, Nonduality, & More

Dorothy Hunt Quotes on Mind & Thinking

“We’re all addicted to thinking on one level.” — Dorothy Hunt

“The thinking mind only lives in time.” — Dorothy Hunt

“Most people are much more interested in feeling better than in truth.” — Dorothy Hunt

“No thought is truth. The truth can’t be thought.” — Dorothy Hunt

“No concept is truth. No belief is truth.” — Dorothy Hunt

“It’s your beliefs that create the greatest suffering.” — Dorothy Hunt

“There is this dimension of ourself that is not threatened. The mind can be threatened, the body can feel its response, but something isn’t threatened by anything.” — Dorothy Hunt

“The mind takes the idea of presence to think it’s something it’s supposed to do.” — Dorothy Hunt

“What’s actually here now is a great antidote to the mind just spinning.” — Dorothy Hunt

Dorothy Hunt Quotes on Presence & Present Moment

“The present moment is not actually time. When we come present, now, we’re actually present to the timeless dimension.” — Dorothy Hunt

“Have a felt sense of this that’s already at peace, already okay, already present.” — Dorothy Hunt

“When the strength of your awareness becomes stronger than the mind of thought, we realize it’s always here, it’s ever-present.” — Dorothy Hunt

“Nothing could be known without awareness. It’s so present, it’s so simple, and it’s so subtle that we often don’t even realize it’s the key to freedom.” — Dorothy Hunt

“There’s a tremendous freedom to be in the moment where we are—to experience what’s here.” — Dorothy Hunt

“Our true nature always is illuminating the moment at hand.” — Dorothy Hunt

“We have within us a deep understanding, deeper than anyone else will ever have of who and what we are and how this moment wants to move.” — Dorothy Hunt

“The infinite is seeing itself every moment.” — Dorothy Hunt

“Listen, and see what wants to come.” — Dorothy Hunt

“When causes and conditions are sufficient for something to arise, it arises.” — Dorothy Hunt

“Freedom is the freedom for this moment to be exactly as it is. Period.” — Dorothy Hunt

Dorothy Hunt Quotes on Spirituality & Self-Inquiry

“Who are you? That’s the question of the spiritual life. That’s the only question.” — Dorothy Hunt

“Does awareness have any religion? Does it have a gender? Does it have a race? Does it have any identity at all?” — Dorothy Hunt

“The lack of of knowledge of who and what we truly are makes it so much harder for people to accept their humanness—this unique expression of the mystery that we all are.” — Dorothy Hunt

“I would just point people to their own inner wisdom. It doesn’t reside in someone else, some ‘out there’. It’s here, in your own heart.” — Dorothy Hunt

“This so-called ‘journey’ is a journey back to now.” — Dorothy Hunt

“The simplest definition of meditation is being here for what’s here.” — Dorothy Hunt

“We need to expand our view of what meditation is—it’s really being fully present to what’s here now.” — Dorothy Hunt

“Our life is meditation.” — Dorothy Hunt

“Sitting practice has been the best form of psychotherapy because whatever needs to come up to the surface has an opportunity when we’re open and not trying to manipulate and control.” — Dorothy Hunt

“Your natural ways of connecting to spirit aren’t always the rigid sitting on your cushion facing the wall.” — Dorothy Hunt

“The divine is here having this human experience, and therefore all of it—not anything excluded—could be a portal back to our essential nature.” — Dorothy Hunt

“Freedom is not simply to transcend experience, humanness—it’s to actually have the freedom to be here as bodies, as human expression, and as the divine simultaneously.” — Dorothy Hunt

“We’re not trying to transcend our human experience. The divine is here having one … The freedom is the freedom to have the experience that’s here. It just doesn’t belong to some ‘self’ because there isn’t a separate self.” — Dorothy Hunt

“You trust the bigger dimension, or the deeper dimension, of yourself and of the world.” — Dorothy Hunt

“Trust how life is moving … Trust how that wants to move in you.” — Dorothy Hunt

“Find your natural way. Natural way is not striving; it’s much more organic than that.” — Dorothy Hunt

“It takes some real authentic interest, desire, and devotion really to know truth.” — Dorothy Hunt

Dorothy Hunt Quotes on Awakening & Enlightenment

“When we awaken, we realize that there is no separate one to awaken.” — Dorothy Hunt

“Our true nature is not the same as conditioned mind in the sense that it’s not judging. It just sees clearly. That clear seeing is available in all of us because we all have this awake presence whether we’re conscious of it or not.” — Dorothy Hunt

“If it weren’t for this that’s awake and aware in each of us, we would not know our experience at all no matter what it is.” — Dorothy Hunt

“The only time we can actually be awake is now, to this moment.” — Dorothy Hunt

“Awakening is essentially a shift in identity.” — Dorothy Hunt

“There is a waking up out of identification with only the body-mind.” — Dorothy Hunt

“Who awakens is not who we thought. We might say awakeness wakes up to itself.” — Dorothy Hunt

“We think that we’re human looking for the divine. In fact, it’s the divine that’s always looking, and seeing, and awakening to itself.” — Dorothy Hunt

“There’s been an awareness, an awakeness, present from the get-go that has noticed every experience of our lives.” — Dorothy Hunt

“An awakening experience is not the same as living awake.” — Dorothy Hunt

“Awakening is saving us from the ‘me’. It’s not saving the ‘me’. It’s saving us from this identification with what we’re not.” — Dorothy Hunt

“When you awaken to your true nature, it’s true nature that has remembered itself. It’s not a ‘me’ that wakes up. This has awakened to itself.” — Dorothy Hunt

“There’s such a mythology that abounds in the thinking mind that it’s really a ‘me’ who wakes up—that there’s a separate self that will wake up and become something that they aren’t already. That’s actually a myth.” — Dorothy Hunt

“Even to separate enlightenment and delusion is to come back into a conceptual realm.” — Dorothy Hunt

“A person is not who gets enlightened. Enlightenment is itself. It’s what we are if we discover it, if we realize it. It’s what’s already here … You experience this awakeness awakening to itself.” — Dorothy Hunt

“Enlightenment is what we are, it’s not what we become.” — Dorothy Hunt

Dorothy Hunt Quotes on Duality & Nonduality

“Duality is not a mistake. There isn’t nonduality and duality; that’s another duality.” — Dorothy Hunt

“There’s something that can’t be divided even in our experience if we have eyes to see.” — Dorothy Hunt

“Duality is the expression of what is not-two. If we’re really understanding the not-twoness of life, the non-dual aspect of our truest nature, we realize that duality is the way that this relates to itself. It’s the way it loves itself. It’s the way it sees itself.” — Dorothy Hunt

“Duality is really for the purpose of the infinite playing with itself.” — Dorothy Hunt

“Every single concept we have in this relative world of ours includes its opposite.” — Dorothy Hunt

“Nonduality doesn’t hold any opposites.” — Dorothy Hunt

“You are the unborn and everything that’s born—not two.” — Dorothy Hunt

“This that we are operates as a whole. The wholeness of being operates in service to the whole, not just in service to a ‘me.’” — Dorothy Hunt

“We would never imagine that this relative world is perfect, and yet reality itself is perfectly whole.” — Dorothy Hunt

“The wholeness of being is just moving itself.” — Dorothy Hunt

“It’s all of the same source; it’s all coming from the same ground. When we do see that, it’s so much more difficult to judge what should and shouldn’t be here if it’s already here.” — Dorothy Hunt

“It appears to love to be because here it is being everything.” — Dorothy Hunt

“Apparently this mystery loves to be because it be’s everything.” — Dorothy Hunt

“Love does not require anything to be different.” — Dorothy Hunt