The Enlightenment Quotes
Religions are the training wheels of self enlightenment. They can be helpful in the beginning but at some point they must be let go.
Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.
Your greatest awakening comes, when you are aware about your infinite nature.
There is only one way of attaining liberation and of obtaining the omniscience of enlightenment: following an authentic spiritual master.
Enlightenment has nothing to do with physical knowledge. It is the experience of existence. Existence is infinite. There are countless universes and creations taking place simultaneously.
In the course of time one does not feel even the existence of God. After attaining enlightenment one sees that gods and deities are all Maya.
The Zen of doing anything is doing it with a particular concentration of mind, a calmness and simplicity of mind, that brings the experience of enlightenment and, through that experience, happiness.
The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity.
The pathway to enlightenment leads to states of ecstasy, knowledge, and a pretty ironic sense of humor.
What the world needs more than anything are Bodhisattvas of peace, lawyers, politicians, teachers working tirelessly for the enlightenment of themselves and others.
Enlightenment is not an attainment; it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes. If a blind man realizes that he can see, has the world changed?
Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition. Such are laws of nature and balance.
Enlightenment consists not merely in the seeing of luminous shapes and visions, but in making the darkness visible. The latter procedure is more difficult and therefore, unpopular.
Zen is a special transmission outside the scriptures,With no reliance on words and letters.A direct pointing to the human mind,And the realization of enlightenment.
Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security.
Art is a necessity - an essential part of our enlightenment process. We cannot, as a civilized society, regard ourselves as being enlightened without the arts.
The pursuit of enlightenment is for the purpose of the world, not merely for the purpose of the individual. Practices for enlightenment must lead to action in the world.
Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.
An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.
We are equal beings and the universe is our relations with each other.
There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.
Enlightenment means choosing to dwell in a state of presence rather than in time. It means saying yes to what is.
The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting.
WHETHER BEINGS LOVE ME OR FEAR ME IS IRRELEVANT. IF BEINGS GIVE ME THEIR ATTENTION I WILL TAKE THEM TO ENLIGHTENMENT AND BLISS.
The Bible has been used as a way of making us accept our situation, and not to bring enlightenment to the poor.
Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand.
Enlightenment is very possible for the ordinary individual. Actually, it is easier than for someone who thinks that they are special.
Enlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave realizes it is water. At that moment, all fear of death disappears.
As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
Many paths lead to the Door of Enlightenment. Beware those that proclaim there is but one.
So the single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind.
Women vibrate at a slightly different rate that passes kundalini very easily. It is problematic though, because a woman also picks up negative energy, it affects her more.
It can be made only when one recognizes the ground of being itself, when one recognizes directly that One is All.
History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.
The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.
