The Enlightenment Quotes
Once you awaken, you will have no interest in judging those who sleep.
And I envy you. You have the one thing that matters. You have all your discoveries before you.
Hatred never ceases with hatred, but with love alone is healed.
Ours was the age of enlightenment, he said, when the battle cry was, ‘We must know, we shall know!’, and reason would depose superstition and we be liberated by it.
It is not the fault of the stars that they shine brightly, but the fault of our eyes that they cannot handle light.
It is the ultimate religion, through which all humans neuropsychologically morph into Buddhas, or Enlightened Beings.
Enlightenment does not mean getting rid of anything. It means changing one's frame of reference so that all things become enlightening.
The true tragedy in most people’s lives is that they are far better than they imagine themselves to be and, as a result, end up being much less than they might be.
I was wedded to all the stars of the sky.There was not a single star left, and I married every one of them with great spiritual pleasure. Then I married the moon.
The ego resists change. False pride is an impediment to change.
The soul knows only to love. While the ego criticizes everything, including the ego itself ...
A wise person makes one error, and learns ten lessons.He makes two errors, and learns twenty lessons.He makes three errors, and learns thirty lessons.He makes few errors, and learns countless lessons.
Help more than is needed.Care more than is required.Give more than is expected.Love more than is anticipated.
Nobody makes anybody enlightened.Just tell them what you want to say, then let them decide for themselves.
Dream Song of Thunders:Sometimes I go about pitying Myself, While I am carried by the wind Across the sky.
I'm sorry. This is diary, not enlightenment.
I stopped living a long time ago, in order to simply exist. Now I am trying to leave existence, in order to step into nihility.
Whoever does decide to awaken should put their whole effort, attention, and life into it, in order to make it succeed.
In that nanosecond of enlightenment I knew that the human spirit survives the death of the physical body and I understood that my wandering soul needed to get back into its earthly habitat.
It is neither cowardice nor betrayal to insist that the Enlightenment's main lesson is to be mindful of how much it has left its inheritors to figure out.
I wear a taint of rationing, that's all. I have the thready, ashamed look of a reduced person who assumes there is a worse reduction to come.
Renunciation is the art of removing the barriers between one’s self and others.
Enlightenment isn't the end but the beginning, the start of a journey that a small group of people begun while the rest sleeps.
The problem with car insurance is that you never know how bad your policy is until you are involved in a car crash. At that point enlightenment begins.
They were in a position of total ignorance and people in that position often died without being enlightened.
We are all like cells within the body of the Universe/ God—as are plants, animals, air, natural resources and everything down to a subatomic level.
In a world of limitations, only a fool would hesitate to touch the infinite.
If the conscious falls into the unconscious you fall into a coma, and if the unconscious falls into the conscious and becomes conscious itself, you become enlightened, you become a Buddha, a Sosan.
Unique individuals with unique ideas are the ones who are going to shift the world to a new enlightenment.
The path of Tao is not that of sudden enlightenment. It is not like Zen. Zen is sudden enlightenment, Tao is gradual growth.
If one comes to fundamentals then this is the most fundamental thing: the moment you are not, enlightenment is. With emptiness, the matter is settled.
Enlightenment is recognizing that we are all connected, then consciously living that realization—our thoughts, words, and actions an unshakable reflection of that understanding.