Enlightened Quotes

Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will.

Innumerable Buddhas Enlightened... innumerable Christs crucified... always the same Christ, the same Buddha!

Becoming enlightened doesn't mean everything works your way.

You are god. To be conscious of that not just from the point of view of the human form, to be endless and beginningless perfect being, is to be enlightened.

I think enlightenment is something that you decide to do after you have met someone who is enlightened. Something touches your heart, your being at a very deep level.

It is possible to wake up very quickly, to become enlightened, or you can do it gradually.

Even a good self will create another good self in the next life, and another one, and that good self will never be enlightened. You'll be bound, life after life, by good karma.

An individual has to be tenacious enough to become enlightened.

If you want to become enlightened, you've got to get all the bullshit out of your life. You have to clear up your mind completely.

It takes quite a bit of time to become enlightened. But it really is not so different from learning any other art; all you need is time, a good teacher, and practice.

You could go through incarnations forever and never become enlightened, unless of course you do something about it.

You can't teach someone to be enlightened. It's something you have to go and do. You can't teach someone to meditate well. It's something you have to go and do.

Eventually light prevails, you just have to be patient. So practice Buddhism, learn to be enlightened, put a smile on your face, go find a great teacher, meditate, and stay funny.

If I had my choice I'd hang out anywhere. I mean, it doesn't matter. It's all God; it's all the same. There's only nirvana for the enlightened.

We see an enlightened teacher to gain a sense of humor, to learn balance and proportion and of course to learn wisdom.

People love misery, they love to feel sorry for themselves, and they definitely don't want to be enlightened. That's the first thing they tell you at boot camp in the higher worlds.

How do you become enlightened? I don't know: Luck, karma, skill, friends in high places, friends in low places.

We call it the transmission of the lamp in Zen. That's when we take enlightened states of mind and literally, you can transfer them, just like you can hand somebody flowers.

How do you become enlightened? Have fun, meditate, don't take yourself too seriously, brush between incarnations and have a good teacher.

If one thinks of an enlightened person in a negative way, as it hits their aura, it returns very strongly.

If you can't think of an enlightened person positively, don't think of them at all.

There is enough room in eternity for everyone to be enlightened. We gain or lose nothing by the success of others.

As a student of enlightenment your attitude should not be to become enlightened. It should be to learn.

An enlightened teacher simply expresses enlightenment in their life by living. It is the student's job to gain the teachings. The teacher's job is just to be perfectly enlightened.

Don't care what anybody says about enlightenment, except the enlightened and those who seek it.

The world glows all the time. All of the things that you have come to understand aren't. The greatest thinkers in the world see very little compared to the enlightened.

Do not be a sniveler. Do not say you can't be happy, you can't be enlightened. How do you know? It is all chaos.

I encourage you to make money and to become enlightened. The two are not necessarily different. Have fun with whatever you do because we are only here for a while.

Happy people, enlightened people, successful people all share something in common. They have learned how to manage and increase their energy.

Personal power is the reflection of a person of knowledge. A person of knowledge, an enlightened person, a person even close to enlightenment, has a great deal of personal power.

Fear is just an idea in the mind that limits you. You cannot become enlightened if you are afraid, nor can you become happy.

Who has that perfect faith and trust? Only such a person with that faith and trust can be enlightened.

Celibacy doesn't make you enlightened, otherwise every nun or priest in Buddhism or Christianity would be enlightened. People who don't date and can't get any action would be enlightened.

Use power carefully. Don't be afraid to have it. Learn balance and wisdom in addition to the unlocking of the kundalini, if you wish to have a happy and enlightened life.

Mysticism is concerned primarily with moving our awareness field from the beginning of the band of perception, the human band, up to the enlightened bands of perception.

Overcoming fear is a critical factor for anyone who wishes to be really happy, or anyone who wishes to become enlightened

The planet earth is a sub-world, way below what's average, because if an enlightened being walked through New York City today, no one would see him or her. They wouldn't see the glow.

The most noble of all pursuits is to be enlightened, to know truth, to have knowledge and yet be beyond even truth and knowledge, to be God.

We see very few people who are satisfied. They say that the only ones who are really happy are the enlightened or the fools.

Anybody or anything can become enlightened because enlightenment is the very nature of existence itself.

Enlightenment is cumulative. You become a little more enlightened each day as you practice yoga and Buddhism.

Why become enlightened? Why join the military? Why get married? Why cross the ocean? It is a personal choice. There is something in a person that draws them to the light.

Reading books about enlightenment does not make you enlightened at all. You have to meditate yourself.

If you are with a fully enlightened being, a jivan mukta, liberated soul, the quality of light is so clear, that you don't really know that it is there until later.

You can't just sit in emptiness. Even the enlightened don't sit in emptiness. We call it emptiness - but we move our mind into a world of light.

If there wasn't a way around the samskaras, no one would ever become enlightened.

No self-effort in the direction of enlightenment is ever wasted. Even if you don't become fully enlightened in a given lifetime, you will be much happier and more aware.

When you are enlightened and have united your mind with the deepest and most ancient part of the mind of the universe, you are not affected by suffering the way other people are.

A person who is enlightened does not have to reincarnate, or they may. If they chose not to, they can go beyond the wheel, and slide into nirvana.

Enlightenment is a lot like dying. You might wonder why there aren't more enlightened people. It is because they are afraid to die.