Quotes about Enlightenment

Enlightenment comes through the feminine side of the being. Votes: 6

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment. Votes: 4

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm. Votes: 4

Enlightenment is any experience of expanding our consciousness beyond its present limits. Votes: 4

Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you. Votes: 4

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity. Votes: 4

Enlightenment is lightening up. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is awakened awareness. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is a group activity. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is a destructive process... Votes: 3

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is always preceded by confusion. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is probably antithetical to impatience. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is your ego's greatest disappointment. Votes: 3

Total Enlightenment is 'Vision without Purpose'. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is intimacy with all things. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is not a complete remedy. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is higher states of awareness. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is the experience of pure light. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is a direct experience with reality. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is the food that eats you. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness Votes: 3

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. Votes: 3

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life. Votes: 3

Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute. Votes: 3

Our public monuments are memorials to the Enlightenment. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is the unfolding of the divinity within. Votes: 3

Since pure awareness of nowness is real Enlightenment, Votes: 3

I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy. Votes: 3

[I am a humble adherent of]...Enlightenment Rationalist Fundamentalism. Votes: 3

The Enlightenment needs more shadow; the Romantic Movement less. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is the only real antidote to the world's despair. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is the complete awareness of life without mental modifications. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is "being," and it grows; it's end is serenity. Votes: 3

The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is when all hope disappears. Enlightenment is disappearance of hope. Votes: 3

God and I will achieve Supreme Enlightenment at the same moment. Votes: 3

Enlightenment demands that you take responsibility for your way of life. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground. Votes: 3

Enlightenment isn't found with a full stomach, or on a soft pillow. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is the realization of the oneness of being, where otherness disappears. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is getting off the wheel. Enlightenment is to become pure awareness. Votes: 3

Man has, since the Enlightenment, dealt with things he should have ignored. Votes: 3

I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being. Votes: 3

Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform. Votes: 3

Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is when a laptop comes to know that it is a laptop. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is not like a Big Bang - it is an ongoing process. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is being able to go to your own home and feel comfortable. Votes: 3

Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is represented by Sri Krishna, who is said to be an avatar. Votes: 3

[In] the post-Enlightenment world, science [has] taken the place of magic, miracles, and superstition. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is just another word for feeling comfortable with being a completely ordinary person. Votes: 3

Enlightenment, and the death which comes before it, is the primary business of Varanasi. Votes: 3

Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free. Votes: 3

Enlightenment! When it comes, it comes like a brick to the head, doesn't it? Votes: 3

The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. Votes: 3

Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think. Votes: 3

The French Revolution actualised the Enlightenment's greatest intellectual breakthrough: detaching the political from the theocratic. Votes: 3

Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is a timeless void. It's an emptiness that's filled with the most excellent light. Votes: 3

All beings exist ultimately in a condition of inner enlightenment. Enlightenment is in all things. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is not a goal to be attained, it is a state-of-being to be regained. Votes: 3

Enlightenment means that you've become a sophisticated perceiver, without letting anyone know that you're sophisticated. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is the Goal - Love is the Game - Taking steps are the rules! Votes: 3

Enlightenment is not a state of mind, yet all states of mind are contained within it. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is not a state of mind, yet all states of mind are contained within it. Votes: 3

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. Votes: 3

Enlightenment simply means that you've run out of questions, and that the answers don't matter anymore. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is just the beginning, later on come other skills . . . patience, a forgiving nature, extreme attention . . . . Votes: 3

Enlightenment is nothing but your consciousness being concentrated on a single point - now and here. Votes: 3

Enlightenment doesn't disconnect you from the world, rather it gives you a deep understanding of it. Votes: 3

Enlightenment means that you're in love with all of life, with not only immortality but mortality. Votes: 3

Enlightenment doesn't simply mean being in heavenly states of mind. It doesn't mean being a saint. Votes: 3

Many paths lead to the Door of Enlightenment. Beware those that proclaim there is but one. Votes: 3

Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment. Votes: 3

It is the way it is. But it is not the way it appears to be. Enlightenment. Votes: 3

Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself. Votes: 3

Enlightenment says the world is nothing Nothing but a dream, everything's an illusion And nothing is real. Votes: 3

Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation. Votes: 3

Other networks seek to interfere with the natural process of chaos. Enlightenment is chaos, complete beyond conception Votes: 3

Enlightenment is cumulative. You become a little more enlightened each day as you practice yoga and Buddhism. Votes: 3

I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment. Votes: 3

The species of anti-Enlightenment religion we find among evangelical protestants is far more impoverished, anti-intellectual and downright wretched. Votes: 3

Everything aids everything, because all things are a reflection of the Buddha mind, of the mind of Enlightenment. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is the Goal - Love is the Game - Taking steps are the rules! - Allan Rufus Votes: 3

Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution. Votes: 3

It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man. Votes: 3

Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead it's about becoming more fully human. . . . It is the end of ignorance. Votes: 3

Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand. Votes: 3

Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is the ultimate nourishment for body, mind, and soul. It is the ultimate freedom and ecstasy of life. Votes: 3

Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is not a finite state. It's not something that you just do and it's done. It goes on forever. Votes: 3

Something in you wants to go beyond, wants to be free from this endless round of perception. Enlightenment is that. Votes: 3

Enlightenment has nothing to do with being spiritual. Being spiritual is just an idea - it's another ring of perception. Votes: 3

Amida's unimpeded light is the sun of wisdom that destroys the mind of darkness.(Preface in Teaching, Practice, Faith, Enlightenment) Votes: 3

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment. Votes: 3

Since the Enlightenment, popular religion has rejected the Enlightenment path and transformed itself into a bastion of resistance against reason. Votes: 3

I have made a vow to attain Enlightenment in the female form - no matter how many lifetimes it takes Votes: 3

Enlightenment is the ability to freely transact within the ten thousand states of mind without a continuous self or awareness Votes: 3

Enlightenment after all is to overcome delusion, by way of sensitizing practitioners to complexities and problems of the human situation. Votes: 3

Enlightenment does not mean getting rid of anything. It means changing one's frame of reference so that all things become enlightening. Votes: 3

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is very possible for the ordinary individual. Actually, it is easier than for someone who thinks that they are special. Votes: 3

Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival. Votes: 3

The purpose of enlightenment is certainly not the teacher, nor is it you. It doesn't have a purpose. Enlightenment simply exists. Votes: 3

Enlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave realizes it is water. At that moment, all fear of death disappears. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists. Votes: 3

Enlightenment of your brain means the limited capacity of your brain has to become unlimited in its capacity to realize God. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to become... Votes: 3

Enlightenment means choosing to dwell in a state of presence rather than in time. It means saying yes to what is. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is finding that there is nothing to find. Enlightenment is to come to know that there is nowhere to go. Votes: 3

Enlightenment doesn't mean you know anything. It doesn't mean you don't know anything. It means that you've returned to the source, consciously. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is a journey. It is a journey that is made alone. It is a journey that is made with a teacher. Votes: 3

It's a tiresome proposition, having to take up the work of the Enlightenment all over again, but it's happened on your watch. Votes: 3

You're an emanation of enlightenment. Enlightenment, which is the universe, has created the hallucination that is you in a form that shifts. Votes: 3

Secular humanism proposes ... the complete implementation of the agenda of modernism ... what is necessary for it to occur is a ... New Enlightenment. Votes: 3

So in the world of Enlightenment, things are just things, except they're not things. We're in nirvana. There is no debating team. Votes: 3

The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant. Votes: 3

The universe is endless. Enlightenment is endless. You have only touched the outer periphery of the endless still center of perfect being. Votes: 3

Enlightenment doesnt occur from sitting around visualizing images of light, but from integrating the darker aspects of the Self into the conscious personality. Votes: 3

Enlightenment means having no human mind, no limitations. Your awareness is eternity, timeless, infinite, beyond boundaries, and yet it exists within all things. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is an ocean of awareness that slides through the human part of us and dissolves it, and leaves us forever in eternity. Votes: 3

Anything that is created must sooner or later die. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it. Votes: 3

Enlightenment, meditation is really a shift in perception. It's not a thing that you go and do or become, since you're already that. Votes: 3

It's wrong to look at what we call 'Enlightenment values' as some fad of the 18th century. It's deeply rooted in ancient history. Votes: 3

The Network of Enlightenment watches over a world and guides it, tenderly. Not interfering in its natural course of evolution is our way. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is a lot like dying. You might wonder why there aren't more enlightened people. It is because they are afraid to die. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The Enlightenment is not a nightmare, nor is it something that comes easily to us. It is an aspiration - and a good one! Votes: 3

We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything. Votes: 3

Enlightenment remains unrealized so long as it is considered as a specific state to be attained, and for which there are standards of success. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Enlightenment doesn't occur by accident. It is a deliberate decision that someone makes again and again. It is something you grow into and develop in. Votes: 3

The problem is that the Enlightenment dream may make too many demands on poor African apes like us. We may just not be up to it. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is not about being political. It is not a social club. Ashrams often turn into that, I know. Societies of enlightenment often just become cliques. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is x-rated, honey; if you haven't checked it out. It's hot, it's vivacious. You're going to take your mind and merge it with the entire cosmos. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is x-rated, honey; if you haven't checked it out. It's hot, it's vivacious. You're going to take your mind and merge it with the entire cosmos. Votes: 3

You are going around on the wheel again and again. You go around and around from lifetime to lifetime. You never quite wake up. Enlightenment is waking up. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is a perfect state of mind. It is the direct seeing of reality. The world most people see, which they call life, is really just a dream. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is already there inside us and all things. All we have to do is get something out of the way that is causing us not to see that. Votes: 3

After enlightenment, the laundry. Votes: 2

Not creating delusions is enlightenment. Votes: 2

There is no enlightenment outside of daily life. Votes: 2

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment. Votes: 2

Enlightenment is the journey back from the head to the heart. Votes: 2

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels. Votes: 2

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment. Votes: 2

Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. Votes: 2

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness. Votes: 2

If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is 'the quiet acceptance of what is'. Votes: 2

You are here for no other purpose than to realize your inner divinity and manifest your inner enlightenment. Votes: 2

Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all Votes: 2

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment. Votes: 2

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Trees are good for contemplation: Plato and Aristotle did their best thinking in the groves of olives and figs around Athens, and Buddha found enlightenment beneath a peepul tree. Votes: 2

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy. Votes: 2

Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are. Votes: 2

When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business. Votes: 2

The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being. Votes: 2

I think it may not be a coincidence that the rise of printing and book publication and literacy and the phenomenon of best sellers all preceded the humanitarian reforms of the Enlightenment. Votes: 2

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money. Votes: 2

I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder. Votes: 2

Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment. Votes: 2

Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment. Votes: 2

We who don't want radical Islam to spread must compete with the agents of radical Islam. I want to see what would happen if Christians, feminists and Enlightenment thinkers were to start proselytizing in the Muslim community. Votes: 2

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet. Votes: 2

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. Votes: 2

Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment. Votes: 2

The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter. Votes: 2

The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions. Votes: 2

Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness. Votes: 2

Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place. Votes: 2

Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation. Votes: 2

With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order. Votes: 2

Matangi's mantra is aim, which is MIA backwards. She fights for freedom of speech and stands for truth, and lives in the ghetto because her dad was the first person in Hindu mythology who came from the 'hood, but had gained enlightenment through not being a Brahmin. Votes: 2

Everything, however complicated - breaking waves, migrating birds, and tropical forests - is made of atoms and obeys the equations of quantum physics. But even if those equations could be solved, they wouldn't offer the enlightenment that scientists seek. Each science has its own autonomous concepts and laws. Votes: 2

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. Votes: 2

People can hate on you for doing what it is that makes you happy, but ultimately, it has to belong to you. 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. Votes: 2

Mysticism is: a. An advanced state of inner enlightenment. b. Union with Reality. c. A state of genuinely satisfying success. d. Insight into an entirely new world of living. e. An intuitive grasp of Truth, above and beyond intellectual reasoning. f. A personal experience, in which we are happy and healthy human beings. Votes: 2

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects. Votes: 2

O Lord, please fill my mouth with worthwhile stuff, and nudge me when I've said enough. 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. - Wayne Dyer Learn the richness of solitude and quiet. That "still small voice" is yearning to be heard. Votes: 2

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment. Votes: 1

Every man must seek self-enlightenment Votes: 0

Today's enlightenment is tomorrows mistake Votes: 0

Suffering is temporary, enlightenment is forever. Votes: 0

Self enlightenment is the greatest endowment. Votes: 0

Unity is divinity, purity is enlightenment. Votes: 0

Painting is a means of self-enlightenment. Votes: 0

Why don't more women attain enlightenment? Votes: 0

Gain is delusion; loss is enlightenment. Votes: 0

poems are small moments of enlightenment Votes: 0

Practice and enlightenment are not two. Votes: 0

enlightenment should be a human right. Votes: 0

You can't make a date with enlightenment. Votes: 0

Reading is an enlightenment of the soul. Votes: 0

Your imagination is the vehicle to enlightenment. Votes: 0

Meditation is the quickest path to enlightenment. Votes: 0

Knowledge of thyself is the greatest enlightenment. Votes: 0

Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment. Votes: 0

Your enlightenment is more powerful than your ignorance. Votes: 0

I've never met anyone who's serious about enlightenment. Votes: 0

Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment. Votes: 0

Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment. Votes: 0

Every right quote is a golden stair to enlightenment! Votes: 0

Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment. Votes: 0

Hip-Hop is my vehicle to scientific and universal enlightenment Votes: 0

The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation. Votes: 0

Relationship are part of the vast plan for our enlightenment. Votes: 0

Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment. Votes: 0

The goal of the soul is to work toward enlightenment. Votes: 0

Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment. Votes: 0

Sex can never bring about enlightenment. Only enlightenment brings about enlightenment. Votes: 0

Godliness is the fragrance of the man who has attained enlightenment. Votes: 0

As for enlightenment, that's just for people who can't face reality. Votes: 0

Art is a necessity, an essential part of our enlightenment process. Votes: 0

Instant enlightenment is to give all your happiness away to others. Votes: 0

If you ever reach enlightenment. will you remember how to laugh? Votes: 0

There is a way to reach enlightenment and get beyond suffering. Votes: 0

Pain is the fuel that lights the flame of our enlightenment Votes: 0

Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. Votes: 0

Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment. Votes: 0

One evening you may learn about enlightenment, koans, meditation and personal power. Votes: 0

Don't worry. These poses have nothing to do with meditation or enlightenment. Votes: 0

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. Votes: 0

Attachment is the main thing that is blocking your path towards enlightenment. Votes: 0

Progressive. n. One who is unable to distinguish between novelty and enlightenment. Votes: 0

Be - don't try to become. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance. Votes: 0

The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death. Votes: 0

It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself. Votes: 0

Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment. Votes: 0

There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment. Votes: 0

Words are a distraction to enlightenment. Getting rid of conceptual thinking means enlightenment. Votes: 0

Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space. Votes: 0

Everyone is afraid of enlightenment, knowledge, completion. People are afraid of being exposed. Votes: 0

When we wake up from our confused state of mind, that is enlightenment. Votes: 0

There's no right or wrong in the study of enlightenment. There's only experience. Votes: 0

The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment. Votes: 0

Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency. Votes: 0

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment. Votes: 0

In this world, there is a fine line between enlightenment and brain damage. Votes: 0

There are two obstacles to enlightenment: 1. Thinking you know. 2 Thinking you don't know. Votes: 0

To be completely enlightened means that you're a Buddha.I don't speak of enlightenment. Votes: 0

I don't believe that human beings can achieve ultimate enlightenment, because humans have flaws. Votes: 0

Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed; after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed. Votes: 0

Madness is not enlightenment, but the search for enlightenment is often mistaken for madness. Votes: 0

Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment. Votes: 0

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment. Votes: 0

True enlightenment is nothing but the nature of one's own self being fully realized. Votes: 0

Self-hate doesn't create enlightenment. It just causes you to not enjoy the current moment. Votes: 0

Self-hate doesn't create enlightenment. It just causes you to not enjoy the current moment. Votes: 0

When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. Votes: 0

If you seek enlightenment, then career is a very important idea on your agenda. Votes: 0

Tantric Zen is the exploration of everything, since everything is a part of enlightenment. Votes: 0

There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take the one with a heart. Votes: 0

Don't care what anybody says about enlightenment, except the enlightened and those who seek it. Votes: 0

They can't stop you if, in your heart, you seek enlightenment, empowerment, balance and knowledge. Votes: 0

An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary. Votes: 0

In the West people are basically oblivious to power, solstices, enlightenment and everything that matters. Votes: 0

In the West people are basically oblivious to power, solstices, enlightenment and everything that matters. Votes: 0

The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities. Votes: 0

Anybody or anything can become enlightened because enlightenment is the very nature of existence itself. Votes: 0

Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility. Votes: 0

Be humble in order to attain enlightenment. Thus, after attaining it, be more humble still. Votes: 0

The 7 factors of enlightenment: mindfullness, investigation of mental objects, energy, joy, tranquility, concentration and equanimity. Votes: 0

If we really prefer basic sanity or enlightenment, it's irritatingly possible to get into it. Votes: 0

I don't want enlightenment, I want him. Sorry Buddha, I loved him more than you. Votes: 0

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment. Votes: 0

My "drop in the ocean" will contribute to the enlightenment of Europe, so to speak. Votes: 0

Every day is a new opportunity to work with what you have inside toward enlightenment. Votes: 0

Because clarity and enlightenment are within your own nature, they are regained without moving an inch. Votes: 0

Taking refuge means that you align and orient your life toward Buddha's example and toward enlightenment. Votes: 0

You can't buy enlightenment, but you can hire a mirror so you can watch it happen. Votes: 0

Reading books about enlightenment does not make you enlightened at all. You have to meditate yourself. Votes: 0

The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened. Votes: 0

I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality. . . I expect it to provide all further enlightenment. Votes: 0

Nirvana and enlightenment exist just on the other side of your sensory perceptions and your thoughts. Votes: 0

The secret to enlightenment is kindness and selfless giving. Without that, it's just words, isn't it? Votes: 0

Truly, he thought, the way of enlightenment is like unto half a mile of broken glass. Votes: 0

Through meditative techniques, one can free the mind of delusions and attain what we call enlightenment. Votes: 0

Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it. Votes: 0

Only the rich can achieve enlightenment because the poor are too busy looking for fridge freezers. Votes: 0

Understanding others is knowledge, Understanding oneself is enlightenment; Conquering others is power, Conquering oneself is strength. Votes: 0

The Encyclopedia--the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment... Votes: 0

On the pathway that leads to enlightenment, only your heart can tell you what is right. Votes: 0

Perhaps enlightenment, technology and secularism haven't cleared Europe of the oldest science of all - the occult. Votes: 0

Since life is but a continuous series of experiences, everything ultimately helps me towards my final enlightenment. Votes: 0

The process of eliminating the samskaras and reaching complete enlightenment is very technical, wonderful, and mystical process. Votes: 0

Those who greatly enlighten delusion are buddhas; those who are greatly deluded about enlightenment are sentient beings. Votes: 0

Even though it's not perceivable to the mind or senses, it's there and enlightenment is absolute freedom. Votes: 0

In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction. Votes: 0

Zen students see themselves as athletes. Their competitive sport is enlightenment; only with enlightenment do we compete. Votes: 0

Zen students see themselves as athletes. Their competitive sport is enlightenment; only with enlightenment do we compete. Votes: 0

People get very deep experiences and they think they're enlightened. That's not enlightenment, that's just some realization. Votes: 0

The process of eliminating the samskaras and reaching complete enlightenment is very technical, wonderful, and mystical process. Votes: 0

Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are. And listen to the wind singing in your veins. Votes: 0

The secret to enlightenment is to lighten up. Whether you are talking rock or women, all there. Votes: 0

Zen was an attempt to get back to the purest teachings of the Buddha -enlightenment without strings. Votes: 0

The pathway to enlightenment leads to states of ecstasy, knowledge, and a pretty ironic sense of humor. Votes: 0

We have to leave everything we have been, a perceiver, "I" as an individual. That is enlightenment. Votes: 0

No single step in the persuit of enlightenment should ever be considered sacred; only the search was. Votes: 0

To attain to enlightenment is to attain to all. When you are not, you become the whole. Votes: 0

God is your very being. So the first thing is, don't think about enlightenment as a goal. Votes: 0

Zen is a very quick path to enlightenment and development of the mind and all its facilities. Votes: 0

Education is one of the greatest gift for mankind. Each one of us must seek this enlightenment. Votes: 0

Forces of light on earth shall overcome the force of darkness. Complete spiritual enlightenment on earth will occur. Votes: 0

A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things. Votes: 0

Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love. Votes: 0

The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity. Votes: 0

If there's any possibility for enlightenment, it's right now, not at some future time. Now is the time. Votes: 0

Simply by performing good actions and thinking good thoughts you will not attain enlightenment. It takes something more. Votes: 0

More men will continue to attain enlightenment than women, unless women change their use of the second attention. Votes: 0

We're in an age of enlightenment, and we have a choice as a society which path to take. Votes: 0

Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless. Votes: 0

A man searching for enlightenment is like a man sitting on an Ass in search of an Ass Votes: 0

Paradoxically, the more deeply one grows in enlightenment, the more clearly one discerns one's own frailties and limitations. Votes: 0

Sex is a game, a weapon, a toy, a joy, a trance, an enlightenment, a loss, a hope. Votes: 0

Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength. Votes: 0

Sexual enlightenment is that hardhearted process which for hygienic reasons forbids young people to satisfy their curiosity themselves. Votes: 0

To nobody can you communicate in words and teachings, what happened to you in your hour of enlightenment. Votes: 0

Books simply help you to see what is already within your self. That's what enlightenment is all about. Votes: 0

You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake. Votes: 0

As a student of enlightenment your attitude should not be to become enlightened. It should be to learn. Votes: 0

The instant you take the lead in the tug-of-war with your ego, enlightenment becomes your state of being. Votes: 0

Remember, the greatest gift to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest. Votes: 0

The last thing we should do is allow ourselves to be infantilized by a counterfeit version of enlightenment. Votes: 0

The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines. Votes: 0

You have to come to the world of enlightenment with open hands, not clinched fists, without an agenda. Votes: 0

Why write a book on uncovering past lives? Because the benefits for personal empowerment, healing, and enlightenment are tremendous. Votes: 0

Sex does drain a certain amount of your occult energy. But that really has nothing to do with enlightenment. Votes: 0

A burrito is a delicious food item that breaks down all social barriers and leads to temporary spiritual enlightenment. Votes: 0

Care, but don't be pushy! Don't preach about enlightenment to people who don't really want to hear about it. Votes: 0

For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation? Votes: 0

Spiritual knowledge is the experience of enlightenment, and requires an understanding of the inner-most workings of the enlightenment cycle. Votes: 0

So the single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Votes: 0

The Buddha gave his first talks, and three or four ascetics became his first disciples. They recognized his enlightenment. Votes: 0

It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts. Votes: 0

Do not cling to anything, to any idea; because clinging is the bondage, even to the idea of enlightenment. Votes: 0

I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women. Votes: 0

Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment. Move the ego aside and be still, open, clear, bright and fully conscious. Votes: 0

What does God really look like stripped naked? That's the province of enlightenment...the formless, perfect face of existence. Votes: 0

The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken. Votes: 0

Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment. Votes: 0

The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith. Votes: 0

Meditate on enlightenment. Read the exploits of the great teachers, the great saints. They'll inspire you. Their power is there. Votes: 0

You're thinking that you shouldn't have sex because you're celibate. So you just keep thinking about sex instead of enlightenment. Votes: 0

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment. Votes: 0

Once you have personally experienced enlightenment, you will see beyond the ocean of death to the everlasting shores of immortality. Votes: 0

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. Votes: 0

Use career to develop yourself. Have fun with it. Dedicate your activities and your career, to eternity, and to enlightenment. Votes: 0

Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785) Votes: 0

The miracle of enlightenment is that you take the self and let it dissolve in the white light of eternity. Votes: 0

Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment. Votes: 0

Once you have personally experienced enlightenment, you will see beyond the ocean of death to the everlasting shores of immortality. Votes: 0

Tantric Zen is the awareness of the infinitude of all things. To gain that awareness, to be it, is enlightenment. Votes: 0

After enlightenment your body changes tremendously; its very molecular structure changes just because the kundalini is always streaming through you. Votes: 0

Once we've achieved perfect meditation, we're terribly trapped because that's an illusion...any enlightenment that seems ultimate is an illusion. Votes: 0

There is only one way of attaining liberation and of obtaining the omniscience of enlightenment: following an authentic spiritual master. Votes: 0

Any enlightenment which requires to be authenticated, certified, recognized, congratulated, is (as yet) a false, or at least incomplete one. Votes: 0

I personally, only work with people in my business who show excellence. I have a business, the business of enlightenment. Votes: 0

I have not in this lifetime yet met one person who earnestly seeks enlightenment in the West. Not one person. Votes: 0

There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice. Votes: 0

The nation no longer stands for the enlightenment tradition, but rather for military-political hegemony and the total commodification of life. Votes: 0

What is enlightenment, anyway? I don't know if I can really put it into words, perhaps you can. I can't. Votes: 0

After enlightenment your body changes tremendously; its very molecular structure changes just because the kundalini is always streaming through you. Votes: 0

A fully blossomed human potential is enlightenment. It is becoming a child again, and coming back to your original nature. Votes: 0

When you are realized, you can start feeling your own chakras and the chakras of other people. This is enlightenment. Votes: 0

By renouncing samsara, we renounce our habitual grasping, unhappy minds. And by renouncing samsara, we embrace our potential for enlightenment. Votes: 0

Normally the experience of enlightenment occurs in stages. A person will usually have many small enlightenments before full enlightenment dawns. Votes: 0

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America. Votes: 0

I think it is very important to view life in terms of winning and losing until complete enlightenment has occurred. Votes: 0

Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty. Votes: 0

Some souls attain enlightenment. No one knows why. You could say it is individual inclination. I'm not convinced that's the case. Votes: 0

When a fully qualified Mahayana disciple relies completely upon a fully qualified Mahayana Spiritual Guide the attainment of enlightenment is easy. Votes: 0

Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition. Such are laws of nature and balance. Votes: 0

People on the pathway to enlightenment become very successful in whatever they approach, because they have learned to discipline the mind. Votes: 0

With the use of psychedelics, it was all based around the Tibetan Book of the Dead, using them to experience enlightenment. Votes: 0

To perfect your nature means to let go of this world and place your attention fully in the plane of enlightenment. Votes: 0

If there isn't an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment. Votes: 0

No one's life is totally morbid. Even on a subtle scale there's little flashes of enlightenment and of happiness and joy. Votes: 0

Looking for enlightenment is like looking for a flashlight when all you need the flashlight for is to find the flashlight. Votes: 0

Obstructions on the way to enlightenment, are you kidding? Hey, they crucify people here. You think this is an easy place? Votes: 0

There are certain people who people think are enlightened. The problem with the word enlightenment is what you mean by it. Votes: 0

With the use of psychedelics, it was all based around the Tibetan Book of the Dead, using them to experience enlightenment. Votes: 0

A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be. Votes: 0

Life is an endless matrix of existence. And as you experience it in that pure form, that's what we call enlightenment. Votes: 0

Even in the world, the yogi who faithfully discharges his responsibilities, without personal motive or attachment, treads the sure path of enlightenment. Votes: 0

Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment, and I would encourage you to follow that pathway as far as you can, into ecstasy. Votes: 0

An imbalanced association is when one or both parties become abusive and takes unfair advantage, tries to block another's enlightenment or success. Votes: 0

The goal of society in general is to succeed in the world, whereas the goal of enlightenment is to transcend beyond it. Votes: 0

The Bible has been used as a way of making us accept our situation, and not to bring enlightenment to the poor. Votes: 0

At the beginning and the middle and the end of all things, there is only the perfection of enlightenment that is nirvana. Votes: 0

The secrets of alchemy exist to transform mortals from a state of suffering and ignorance to a state of enlightenment and bliss. Votes: 0

In the spiritual search doubt is beneficial, a closed mind is not. Doubt used wisely assists enlightenment; a closed mind assists ignorance. Votes: 0

The only time and place to find enlightenment is in this moment. No need to check your watch. The time is now. Votes: 0

I am who I am who I am who am I Requesting some enlightenment Could I have been anyone other than me? Votes: 0

There is an emergent enlightenment appearing today, unique to no particular culture or ethnicity. Anyone who chooses to be, is its conduit. Votes: 0

Live on berries in a hollowed-out comet lit by artificial suns long enough, and you start to have delusions about achieving enlightenment. Votes: 0

In a special sense... the three great natural states of waking, dreaming, and deep sleep contain an entire spectrum of spiritual enlightenment. Votes: 0

Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security. Votes: 0

The state of ambiguity - that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you're living through right now - is enlightenment itself. Votes: 0

In Zen the emphasis is on meditation and developing your body, mind and spirit to find inner peace, strength, clarity and enlightenment. Votes: 0

It is equally easy, initially, for either a man or a woman to attain enlightenment, what we would call liberation or self-realization. Votes: 0

The world of enlightenment doesn't know of its own existence. We're beyond both the knower and known. There's no conceptual identity whatsoever. Votes: 0

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner. Votes: 0

The day-to-day life we lead has nothing to do with enlightenment. It is just around the corner, and we don't see it. Votes: 0

Those who are actively seeking enlightenment will not find it because the act of looking for it is the distraction from it. Votes: 0

From the highest state of mind you have a window whereby you could perhaps move beyond all states of mind, to enlightenment. Votes: 0

Ultimately one must abandon the path to enlightenment. If you still define yourself as a Buddhist, you are not a buddha yet. Votes: 0

And when you talk about realization, accomplishment for that matter enlightenment is that when you realize the fundamental essence of your mind. Votes: 0

From the highest state of mind you have a window whereby you could perhaps move beyond all states of mind, to enlightenment. Votes: 0

The way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust, and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice. Votes: 0

If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I not attain highest perfect enlightenment. Votes: 0

The limitations that we can see of the sexual description of reality are very apparent. Very few men attain enlightenment, even fewer women. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power. Votes: 0

To relate is to react. To react is to understand oneself. To understand oneself is to be enlightened. Relationships are schools for enlightenment. Votes: 0

It's one thing to have the attitude of enlightenment and another thing to act in an enlightened way, which is conduct or activity... Votes: 0

The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale. Votes: 0

That's the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being. Votes: 0

My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness. Votes: 0

Through the proper application of kundalini, a woman can quickly become aware of the tremendous power that resides inside herself and reach enlightenment. Votes: 0

The limits on your enlightenment come not from the age you stopped going to school but from the age you stopped being curious. Votes: 0

WHETHER BEINGS LOVE ME OR FEAR ME IS IRRELEVANT. IF BEINGS GIVE ME THEIR ATTENTION I WILL TAKE THEM TO ENLIGHTENMENT AND BLISS. Votes: 0

There is an alternative. It's an old alternative. It's not for everybody. It's only for people who are smart, limited market. It's enlightenment. Votes: 0

What you focus on you become. So always focus on that which is highest, brightest, happiest and most noble of all things, enlightenment. Votes: 0

When you get a new worldview you get a new world. It's like the shift from medieval Christianity to the Renaissance and enlightenment. Votes: 0

The idea that reincarnation means all beings eventually reach enlightenment is not true. Life does not have a fixed purpose. It just is. Votes: 0

The idea that reincarnation means all beings eventually reach enlightenment is not true. Life does not have a fixed purpose. It just is. Votes: 0

"Don't talk about enlightenment," Buddha would say. He was saying don't talk about the nagual. He'd talk about how to get to it. Votes: 0

Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment. Votes: 0

We need to learn that truth consists not in correct doctrine, but in correct doctrine plus the inward enlightenment of the Holy Spirit. Votes: 0

In the Bhagavad-Gita, a book that I revere and respect, it's indicated that even women, along with animals, are capable of attaining enlightenment. Votes: 0

The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and suffering. Votes: 0

All souls do not reach enlightenment. Some souls reach a certain point and stay there. Some souls actually decline and go into different cycles. Votes: 0

Mystical insight and enlightenment occur when the veil between the worlds is lifted, the worlds are bridged, the gap closes, and we cross over. Votes: 0

To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment. Votes: 0

God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time. Votes: 0

Put on the music, and listen. Zazen means to sit, to listen. You're listening to enlightenment, to the universes, to the planes of mind. Votes: 0

Most people don't care much about enlightenment and the truth. They'd rather watch the Home Shopping Network, and maybe that's another kind of truth. Votes: 0

The key to all enlightenment is to have personal experiences in the world of light. All you need to do that is to meditate. Votes: 0

Wisdom, in the world of enlightenment, is not gained through conversation. Wisdom and enlightenment is something that you gain by making the mind still. Votes: 0

Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages. Votes: 0

Religions are the training wheels of self enlightenment. They can be helpful in the beginning but at some point they must be let go. Votes: 0

We can't say what enlightenment is, we can't say what it isn't, because these are words and words have nothing to do with reality. Votes: 0

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed. Votes: 0

Only until you rise above the use of the second attention for manipulation that you can enter into a consciousness in which there is enlightenment. Votes: 0

The hallmark of a person who is following the pathway to enlightenment is that they bring excellence into everything, no matter how crappy they feel. Votes: 0

You have to become that infinite formless creation, which is life, to know it. It cannot be known in an intellectual sense. That is enlightenment. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There is no way to explain enlightenment. It is just a word to indicate something beyond, something very, very far beyond the normal human condition. Votes: 0

The secret teaching was the bodhisattva ideal, to live for others, for the welfare of all beings. That's enlightenment, not some flashy state of luminosity. Votes: 0

The dreams of eternity are the states of mind. When we wake up from the dreams there's only enlightenment. There could never be anything else. Votes: 0

Power is the big obstacle, or one of them, that you have to overcome and learn to deal with effectively before you can reach enlightenment. Votes: 0

There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh. Votes: 0

You may have thousands of lives to go between now and before you're a real hard-core seeker of enlightenment, hardcore meaning you just love it. Votes: 0

It is not after we understand the truth that we attain enlightenment. To realize the truth is to live - to exist here and now. Votes: 0

The network of enlightenment is a very wide network. It's not relegated to a simple type of being. It's not the network of the goody-goods. Votes: 0

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment. Votes: 0

The real pleasure,the real peace, the real enlightenment is to give. The more you give the more you get. If you give 10, you get 100. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The reason for spiritual enlightenment is not to escape life, but to learn how to live it richly, to enjoy it.The Language of Soul Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

The study of enlightenment is really a reorganization of our perceptual body or our perceptual field. We learn to see life more directly and more clearly. Votes: 0

The study of enlightenment is really a reorganization of our perceptual body or our perceptual field. We learn to see life more directly and more clearly. Votes: 0

Your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again. Votes: 0

You remember, you are drawn back to the pathway to enlightenment, to meditation, and when you begin to meditate your past life knowledge returns to you. Votes: 0

To me, the most important thing is to tell a good story. If I can do that, I think that enlightenment, respect of nature, etc. follows. Votes: 0

Smartass Disciple: Master, please show me the way to the enlightenment.Master of Stupidity: Walk with me! [but I won't let you try to surpass me]. Votes: 0

Reality is not the world as you perceive it. Reality is the world perceived through enlightenment. It's the same world; but it's not the same world. Votes: 0

Words are a human way of trying to describe things. But they're much more of interference than they are a help in the world of enlightenment. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When there is no thought in the mind, no thought of thought, when the mind is quiet but fully alert, we experience a little bit of enlightenment. Votes: 0

Zen is the only religion in the world that teaches sudden enlightenment. It says that enlightenment takes no time, it can happen in a single, split second. Votes: 0

Meditation is a bright, hopeful practice in which we learn to make our mind quiet so that the infinite, perfect light of enlightenment can flow through us. Votes: 0

You see, that's the fun of Buddhism. We do have a wild card in the deck that can't be explained, that changes value continuously, and that's enlightenment. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

In enlightenment you have to convince a teacher not only that you are worthy of teaching, but then that they should show you some of the secrets. Votes: 0

If the idea of revolution is to win out, it must be through political enlightenment. It is useless to try to impose it by force of arms. Votes: 0

Do not feel that you are destined to enlightenment in this life. You have no idea. This is an illusion of selfhood. It's gross ignorance and egotism. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

If you seek to change your life and attain enlightenment, you must deal with these questions. If there is no truth in this, then ignore these silly words. Votes: 0

Zen is a very fast path to enlightenment, fast in comparison to some other paths, not fast for the person who practices it. There is no sense of speed. Votes: 0

I think with all the odd jobs I ever had, there was some kind of enlightenment but, yes, a lot of pain and suffering that I don't want to re-live. Votes: 0

My favorite cause is the enlightenment of others. I think that is the best place to put money. You get the highest yield in terms of karma on your money. Votes: 0