The Enlightenment Quotes
What have we to offer the world beside the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment?
The process of eliminating the samskaras and reaching complete enlightenment is very technical, wonderful, and mystical process.
Enlightenment is the inner light of wisdom that is permanently free from all mistaken appearance, and whose function is to bestow mental peace upon each and every living being every day.
An enlightened person does not ignore things and does not stick to things, not even to the truth.
If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak.
Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.
It's one thing to have the attitude of enlightenment and another thing to act in an enlightened way, which is conduct or activity.
Good humor and enthusiasm should be the sunshine ahead that will keep that shadow behind.
The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism.
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.
Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness.
The inward offer is a kind of spiritual enlightenment, whereby the promises are presented to the hearts of men, as it were, by an inward word.
It's good to bear in mind that like it or not, enlightenment has always been, even in a golden age, pretty much limited to an elite.
By renouncing samsara, we renounce our habitual grasping, unhappy minds. And by renouncing samsara, we embrace our potential for enlightenment.
Life is not about focusing on the obstacles. It's about how you handle them, and whether you get enlightenment or levity from the way you do it
There are certain people who people think are enlightened. The problem with the word enlightenment is what you mean by it.
We can continue our quest for improvement or not. We can search for happiness, enlightenment, security or identity or not. The search is not wrong; it is unrelated to the actual world.
That the self advances and confirms the ten thousand things is called delusion; that the ten thousand things advance and confirm the self is called enlightenment.
Most people who have been enlightened in previous incarnations normally begin to regain their past-life enlightenment around the age of twenty-nine, when their astrological Saturn return takes place.
And when you talk about realization, accomplishment for that matter enlightenment is that when you realize the fundamental essence of your mind.
The pathway to enlightenment is happiness. It doesn't really matter if you're successful, if you're in prison, if you're dying - if you have contact with light.
In the West people are basically oblivious to power, solstices, enlightenment and everything that matters.
The world had seen so many Ages: the Age of Enlightenment; of Reformation; of Reason. Now, at last, the Age of Desire. And after this, an end to Ages; an end, perhaps, to everything.
You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake.
Enlightenment after all is to overcome delusion, by way of sensitizing practitioners to complexities and problems of the human situation.
I'd been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta.
Those who greatly enlighten delusion are buddhas; those who are greatly deluded about enlightenment are sentient beings.
The last thing we should do is allow ourselves to be infantilized by a counterfeit version of enlightenment.
No true search for enlightenment ignores the suffering of other sentient beings. Ever. We simply need to create a way to address that suffering while remaining in a blissful center.
Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed; after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.
The role of the artist is like that of an explorer and a teacher - a teacher of seeing. No one is more capable of conveying this enlightenment than the artist.
Reincarnation is not what a lot of people think. Yes, we are eternal. No, everyone does not attain enlightenment; it's not necessary; life is smarter than we are.
Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.
It is about getting a sense of integrity about issues. That was was my enlightenment over it and knowing that I had a safe place to go to handle anything in life.
Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you have to be except exactly who you're being right now.
I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.
Enlightenment, the old teachers say, adds nothing, except maybe the recognition of a need for and a commitment to the work that still needs to be done.
Only the rich can achieve enlightenment because the poor are too busy looking for fridge freezers.
Self-interest is hostile to the common good, but enlightened self-interest is not. And this is the best key to the meaning of enlightenment.
Remember, the greatest gift to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.
It is a good idea to become involved with sports and athletics. It makes you strong. You need to be strong to deal with this world and the powers and forces that block enlightenment.
Taking refuge means that you align and orient your life toward Buddha's example and toward enlightenment.
The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.