The Enlightenment Quotes

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.

Since it is the practice of enlightenment, that practice has no beginning and since it is enlightenment within the practice, that realization has no end.

Be - don't try to become. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.

Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment.

There are two obstacles to enlightenment: 1. Thinking you know. 2 Thinking you don't know.

Enlightenment is the "quiet acceptance of what is". I believe the truly enlightened beings are those who refuse to allow themselves to be distressed over things that simply are the way they are.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

Every day is a new opportunity to work with what you have inside toward enlightenment.

Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless.

My "drop in the ocean" will contribute to the enlightenment of Europe, so to speak.

Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.

I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment.

Protecting the weak is the first step to enlightenment and being truly civilized.

It shouldn't matter what anyone else thinks. Life is not easy. The road to happiness is not a path well trotted. You have to find your own path to enlightenment.

Until women assume their rightful place on earth there will never be an end to wars, cruelty and oppression.

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination.

Why write a book on uncovering past lives? Because the benefits for personal empowerment, healing, and enlightenment are tremendous.

You can't buy enlightenment, but you can hire a mirror so you can watch it happen.

Anything that is created must sooner or later die. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.

Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.

In a special sense... the three great natural states of waking, dreaming, and deep sleep contain an entire spectrum of spiritual enlightenment.

Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

Enlightenment is the journey back from the head to the heart.

When we recognize that the seemingly object nature of reality is nothing different than the subject nature of mind, which is rigpa, it is called enlightenment.

You are here for no other purpose than to realize your inner divinity and manifest your inner enlightenment.

Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are. And listen to the wind singing in your veins.

God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.

Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?

Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.

When you get a new worldview you get a new world. It's like the shift from medieval Christianity to the Renaissance and enlightenment.

Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places.

Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.

A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be.

All those who slight me to my face, Or do me any other evil, Even if they blame or slander me, May they attain the fortune of enlightenment!

Attachment is the main thing that is blocking your path towards enlightenment.

We need to learn that truth consists not in correct doctrine, but in correct doctrine plus the inward enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.

After enlightenment, the laundry.

Pain is the fuel that lights the flame of our enlightenment

If you are liberated then you can be in the crowd and there is no crowd. You can be surrounded by the world and their is no world. You have shattered the prism of illusion.