AWAKENING OF CONSCIOUSNESS 

Awakening is basically a shift of consciousness where thinking and awareness seperate from each other. Awareness is conscious connection with the universal intelligence. another word for it is presence; consciousness without thought. The initiation of awakening is an act of grace. you cannot make it happen nor you can prepare yourself for it.You don't have to become worthy first. It may comes to the sinner first than to a saint, but not necessarily.
For some the awakening happens as they suddenly become aware of kind of thoughts they habitually think,especially persistant negative thoughts.that they may have identified with all their lives.
Suddenly there is an awareness that is aware of the thought but it is not a part of it. Opening yourself to the emerging consciousness and bringing it's light into this world and then becomes the primary purpose in your life.
Many people who are still going through the early stages of awakening process are no longer certain what their outer purpose is. What drives the world no longer drives them.Seeing the madness of our civilization so clearly, they may feel somewhat alienated from the culture around them. Some feel that they in habit no man's land between two worlds. They are no longer run by the ego, yet the arising the awareness has not become fully integrated into their lives, inner and outer purpose have not merged.