The Enlightenment Quotes

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

Enlightenment is the food that eats you.

HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me.

God’s love supersedes all religions and it is the core of all religions.

You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.

By reflecting a little on this subject I am almost convinced that those numberless small Circuses we see on the moon are the works of the Lunarians and may be called their Towns.

No practice exists in isolation.

There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment.

Enlightenment is just another word for feeling comfortable with being a completely ordinary person.

You can call it wisdom, or sanity, or health, or enlightenment. I use the word God as a short-cut. I am comfortable with the word God because I don't have the foggiest idea of what it means.

I think Enlightenment as an epistemic ideal involves rejecting the appeal to a fundamental stratum of non-conceptual self-evidence.

The Encyclopedia - the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment.

The approach is that the best way to use unwanted circumstances on the path of enlightenment is not to resist but to lean into them.

I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.

The miracle of enlightenment is that you take the self and let it dissolve in the white light of eternity.

Enlightenment is a timeless void. It's an emptiness that's filled with the most excellent light.

The word God, to me, is like the word enlightenment. It's become so corrupted by our ideas of what God is.

I'm not blaming men, I'm not blaming women. What's gone by has already gone by. It's history. It's done. There is no right or wrong in higher spirituality.

Not a few patients, however, suffering from certain forms of mental disorder, regain a high degree of insight into their mental condition in what might be termed a flash of divine enlightenment.

Men fearing their innate power, pushed woman back into slavery.

Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the illusion of time and life.

If you would listen, sir, in the sense of being aware of your conflicts and contradictions without forcing them into any particular pattern of thought, perhaps they might altogether cease.

Enlightenment is "being," and it grows; it's end is serenity.

Enlightenment is to be outside the circle, the circle of death and rebirth. There is a circle inside you. If you meditate and focus on your third eye, you will see a circle of light.

Truly, he thought, the way of enlightenment is like unto half a mile of broken glass.

Books simply help you to see what is already within your self. That's what enlightenment is all about.

Men of vision caught glimpses of truth and beauty shining aloft like stars: and in these glimpses was a new hope for the unification of mankind through enlightenment.

Enlightenment remains unrealized so long as it is considered as a specific state to be attained, and for which there are standards of success.

You might have a warrior spirit in there somewhere, and it's just waiting for the opportunity to come out. If you do, you might be a candidate for the pathway to enlightenment.

Enlightenment is a direct experience with reality.

There is no whit less enlightenment under the tree by your street than there was under the Buddha's bo tree. I invite you to go sit under that tree by your street.

Our public monuments are memorials to the Enlightenment.

God and I will achieve Supreme Enlightenment at the same moment.

Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment.

Sexual enlightenment is that hardhearted process which for hygienic reasons forbids young people to satisfy their curiosity themselves.

The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.

If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I not attain highest perfect enlightenment.

My dear brothers, never forget, when you hear the progress of enlightenment vaunted, that the devil's best trick is to persuade you that he doesn't exist!

An enlightened person doesn't know it all. Enlightenment simply means walking beyond this and all worlds into nirvana, which is beyond knowledge and ignorance.

Once we've achieved perfect meditation, we're terribly trapped because that's an illusion...any enlightenment that seems ultimate is an illusion.

The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into our next life. There are no coincidences.

An enlightened person raises the level of the consciousness of the entire community.

It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.” – Snipes (185)

Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes to return to its origin, and must forever try to reach enlightenment.

This thing I am feeling, I’m almost certain, is the closest I’ll ever come to standing somewhere in between truth and reconciliation.

Everything transitory is but an image.

Live on berries in a hollowed-out comet lit by artificial suns long enough, and you start to have delusions about achieving enlightenment.

Enlightenment is scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark.

You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and, perhaps even more so, grieve parts of their lives.