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25 Dorothy Hunt Quotes on Presence, Awakening, Nonduality, & More

This is a curated selection of Dorothy Hunt quotes (primarily sourced from publicly available videos, and personally curated by me on my own lifelong learning journey). This page is intended as a learning resource for educational purposes and only meant to offer an overview/introduction. Short quotes aren’t a substitute for source material, so if this page sparks your interest, explore more deeply by checking out Dorothy Hunt’s books (Amazon).

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25 Dorothy Hunt Quotes on Presence, Awakening, Nonduality, & More

Dorothy Hunt Quotes on Mind & Thinking

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

Dorothy Hunt Quotes on Awakening & Enlightenment

“Awakening is essentially a shift in identity … 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

“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

Dorothy Hunt Quotes on Duality & Nonduality

“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

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

“We would never imagine that this relative world is perfect, and yet reality itself is perfectly whole … 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

“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

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