The Enlightenment Quotes
It doesn't matter how you conceive of divinity. It only matters that you see it in everything, including yourself.
We must empower our weak to be strong, and teach our strong to be compassionate. This will open a door to oneness.
Nature blessed every person with the innate capacity to express wonder and awe for the eternal world and act with a kind and unstinting soul.
I have to remind myself that I've always known this: Evolution is not for everybody.
Never once, did Christ ever utter, "I came here to start a religion"Early Christians did not worship items, relics, wars, or governments.
Writing about the self to spur intellectual growth or attain a teardrop of emotional salvation is akin to a fish attempting to construct a net that will capture itself.
Enlightenment is nothing but to experience your own mind. The experience of the self too is experiencing the intrinsic nature of the mind.
The man who has forgotten self may be said to have entered Heaven.
I have travelled many places but still I find that perhaps the greatest journey is through one's own mind.
There is nothing we could add to that which has already been created....perfection.
The moment you open yourself completely to the love that awaits your conscious embrace, you are no longer there to receive it.
One of the most despicable religious fallacies is that suffering is ennobling, that it is a step on the path to some kind of enlightenment or salvation.
The blessing of resistance lies in its power to illuminate those aspects of ourselves which have eluded our appreciation.
When we encounter sorrow and betrayal stay present and learn. There is a lesson waiting to unfold, allow yourself to soften into the experience.
Beyond all judgments of good and bad ...is perfection - Vivian Amis
Awakening means you’ve come home to yourself, that consciousness shifted back to its original nature.
The awakening process is not about 'finding who you are' but more about finding out about the ego, about who you are not.
Even this is paradoxical because even though the ego does all the spiritual practice in the beginning, it’s the Truth that has orchestrated it all.
Get to know who you are not, because when you know your ego the Truth of who you are will also become clear.
Sooner or later on this journey, every traveller faces the same question: Are you a human intending to be a god, or a god pretending to be human?
The purpose of life is to reach a point where you can say 'yes' to all of it.
Wisdom may teach you that all places are one, but love shows you how to get there.
Enlightenment doesn't disconnect you from the world, rather it gives you a deep understanding of it.
Enlightenment gives profound joy of the heart and a great love for the fellow beings.
The rough must always accompany the smooth. Without one or the other one learns nothing about oneself.
The evolution of the universe is both mirrored by and incumbent upon your own.
Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment.
Angry obsessive thoughts about another weaken your state of mind and well being. If you must have revenge, then take it by choosing to be happy and let them go forever.
A person who wants to know everything eventually comes to a stage where his/her curiosity of knowing everything comes to an end and that is the stage of Enlightenment.
