Quotes about The Enlightenment

My "drop in the ocean" will contribute to the enlightenment of Europe, so to speak. Votes: 3

The Encyclopedia--the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment... Votes: 3

Spiritual knowledge is the experience of enlightenment, and requires an understanding of the inner-most workings of the enlightenment cycle. Votes: 3

The nation no longer stands for the enlightenment tradition, but rather for military-political hegemony and the total commodification of life. Votes: 3

Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power. Votes: 3

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: 3

If you seek to develop the mind fully, for the enlightenment process, you will benefit if your career is related to computer science, law, medicine, or the arts. Votes: 3

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: 3

I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really. Votes: 1

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment. Votes: 1

The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. Votes: 1

Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free. Votes: 1

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness. Votes: 1

The French Revolution actualised the Enlightenment's greatest intellectual breakthrough: detaching the political from the theocratic. Votes: 1

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. Votes: 1

Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation. Votes: 1

Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment. Votes: 1

Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution. Votes: 1

The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith. Votes: 1

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. Votes: 1

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment. Votes: 1

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America. Votes: 1

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment. Votes: 1

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: 1

The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought. Votes: 1

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: 1

There are about 15 million Muslims in the EU. They face ignorance, insult and even persecution. They cannot be wished away. To impose Enlightenment freedoms is self-defeating. Anyway, the Muslims have their own enlightenment. Votes: 1

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive - that you can touch the miracle of being alive - then that is a kind of enlightenment. Votes: 1

Enlightenment is lightening up. Votes: 0

After enlightenment, the laundry. Votes: 0

Enlightenment is awakened awareness. Votes: 0

Enlightenment is a destructive process... Votes: 0

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment. Votes: 0

Not creating delusions is enlightenment. Votes: 0

Every man must seek self-enlightenment Votes: 0

Enlightenment is a group activity. Votes: 0

Today's enlightenment is tomorrows mistake Votes: 0

Enlightenment is your ego's greatest disappointment. Votes: 0

Enlightenment is probably antithetical to impatience. Votes: 0

Total Enlightenment is 'Vision without Purpose'. Votes: 0

Enlightenment is always preceded by confusion. Votes: 0

Self enlightenment is the greatest endowment. Votes: 0

Enlightenment is higher states of awareness. Votes: 0

Unity is divinity, purity is enlightenment. Votes: 0

Suffering is temporary, enlightenment is forever. Votes: 0

Enlightenment is not a complete remedy. Votes: 0

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

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

Enlightenment is intimacy with all things. Votes: 0

enlightenment should be a human right. Votes: 0

Gain is delusion; loss is enlightenment. Votes: 0

Practice and enlightenment are not two. Votes: 0

poems are small moments of enlightenment Votes: 0

Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness Votes: 0

Knowledge of thyself is the greatest enlightenment. Votes: 0

Enlightenment is a direct experience with reality. Votes: 0

Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable. Votes: 0

Meditation is the quickest path to enlightenment. Votes: 0

Your imagination is the vehicle to enlightenment. Votes: 0

Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment. Votes: 0

Reading is an enlightenment of the soul. Votes: 0

Enlightenment is the food that eats you. Votes: 0

Enlightenment is the experience of pure light. Votes: 0

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

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. Votes: 0

Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute. Votes: 0

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life. Votes: 0

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment. Votes: 0

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment. Votes: 0

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

Enlightenment is the unfolding of the divinity within. Votes: 0

Our public monuments are memorials to the Enlightenment. Votes: 0

Since pure awareness of nowness is real Enlightenment, Votes: 0

I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy. Votes: 0

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

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

There is no enlightenment outside of daily life. Votes: 0

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

Enlightenment comes through the feminine side of the being. Votes: 0

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

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

The Enlightenment needs more shadow; the Romantic Movement less. Votes: 0

[I am a humble adherent of]...Enlightenment Rationalist Fundamentalism. Votes: 0

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

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

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

Enlightenment is the complete awareness of life without mental modifications. Votes: 0

The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines. Votes: 0

Enlightenment is scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark. Votes: 0

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

Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone. Votes: 0

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

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. Votes: 0

Enlightenment is the only real antidote to the world's despair. Votes: 0

Enlightenment is "being," and it grows; it's end is serenity. Votes: 0

Enlightenment demands that you take responsibility for your way of life. Votes: 0

Enlightenment is the journey back from the head to the heart. Votes: 0

Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground. Votes: 0

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm. Votes: 0

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

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

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

Godliness is the fragrance of the man who has attained enlightenment. 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

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

Enlightenment is when all hope disappears. Enlightenment is disappearance of hope. Votes: 0

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

Attachment is the main thing that is blocking your path towards 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

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

Enlightenment is the realization of the oneness of being, where otherness disappears. Votes: 0

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

Man has, since the Enlightenment, dealt with things he should have ignored. Votes: 0

Enlightenment is getting off the wheel. Enlightenment is to become pure awareness. Votes: 0

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

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

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

Enlightenment isn't found with a full stomach, or on a soft pillow. Votes: 0

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment. Votes: 0

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

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

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

Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform. Votes: 0

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

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

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

Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform. Votes: 0

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

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

Enlightenment is not like a Big Bang - it is an ongoing process. Votes: 0

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

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

Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being. Votes: 0

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

Enlightenment is being able to go to your own home and feel comfortable. Votes: 0

Enlightenment is when a laptop comes to know that it is a laptop. Votes: 0

Enlightenment is represented by Sri Krishna, who is said to be an avatar. Votes: 0

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

Enlightenment, and the death which comes before it, is the primary business of Varanasi. Votes: 0

Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think. Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

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

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

Enlightenment is just another word for feeling comfortable with being a completely ordinary person. Votes: 0

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

[In] the post-Enlightenment world, science [has] taken the place of magic, miracles, and superstition. Votes: 0

Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. Votes: 0

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

Enlightenment! When it comes, it comes like a brick to the head, doesn't it? Votes: 0

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

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment. Votes: 0

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

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

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

Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance. Votes: 0

Enlightenment is a timeless void. It's an emptiness that's filled with the most excellent light. Votes: 0

Enlightenment means that you've become a sophisticated perceiver, without letting anyone know that you're sophisticated. Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

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

All beings exist ultimately in a condition of inner enlightenment. Enlightenment is in all things. Votes: 0

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

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

Enlightenment is not a goal to be attained, it is a state-of-being to be regained. Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

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

Enlightenment is not a state of mind, yet all states of mind are contained within it. Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

Enlightenment is nothing but your consciousness being concentrated on a single point - now and here. Votes: 0

Enlightenment is just the beginning, later on come other skills . . . patience, a forgiving nature, extreme attention . . . . Votes: 0

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

Enlightenment is not a state of mind, yet all states of mind are contained within it. Votes: 0

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

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

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

Enlightenment doesn't disconnect you from the world, rather it gives you a deep understanding of it. Votes: 0

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

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

Enlightenment means that you're in love with all of life, with not only immortality but mortality. Votes: 0

Enlightenment doesn't simply mean being in heavenly states of mind. It doesn't mean being a saint. Votes: 0

Enlightenment simply means that you've run out of questions, and that the answers don't matter anymore. Votes: 0

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

Many paths lead to the Door of Enlightenment. Beware those that proclaim there is but one. Votes: 0

Enlightenment says the world is nothing Nothing but a dream, everything's an illusion And nothing is real. Votes: 0

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

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

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

Other networks seek to interfere with the natural process of chaos. Enlightenment is chaos, complete beyond conception Votes: 0

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

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

Enlightenment is cumulative. You become a little more enlightened each day as you practice yoga and Buddhism. Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is 'the quiet acceptance of what is'. Votes: 0

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

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

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

Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself. Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is the way it is. But it is not the way it appears to be. Enlightenment. Votes: 0

I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment. Votes: 0

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

Everything aids everything, because all things are a reflection of the Buddha mind, of the mind of Enlightenment. Votes: 0

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

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

The species of anti-Enlightenment religion we find among evangelical protestants is far more impoverished, anti-intellectual and downright wretched. Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

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

Enlightenment is the Goal - Love is the Game - Taking steps are the rules! - Allan Rufus Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

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

It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man. Votes: 0

You are here for no other purpose than to realize your inner divinity and manifest your inner enlightenment. Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead it's about becoming more fully human. . . . It is the end of ignorance. Votes: 0

Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination. Votes: 0

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

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

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

Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness. Votes: 0

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

Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand. Votes: 0

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

Enlightenment is the ultimate nourishment for body, mind, and soul. It is the ultimate freedom and ecstasy of life. Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Enlightenment is the ability to freely transact within the ten thousand states of mind without a continuous self or awareness Votes: 0

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

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

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

Enlightenment after all is to overcome delusion, by way of sensitizing practitioners to complexities and problems of the human situation. Votes: 0

Since the Enlightenment, popular religion has rejected the Enlightenment path and transformed itself into a bastion of resistance against reason. Votes: 0

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

Enlightenment has nothing to do with being spiritual. Being spiritual is just an idea - it's another ring of perception. Votes: 0

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

Amida's unimpeded light is the sun of wisdom that destroys the mind of darkness.(Preface in Teaching, Practice, Faith, Enlightenment) Votes: 0

Enlightenment is not a finite state. It's not something that you just do and it's done. It goes on forever. Votes: 0

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

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

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

I have made a vow to attain Enlightenment in the female form - no matter how many lifetimes it takes Votes: 0

Something in you wants to go beyond, wants to be free from this endless round of perception. Enlightenment is that. Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

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

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

The purpose of enlightenment is certainly not the teacher, nor is it you. It doesn't have a purpose. Enlightenment simply exists. Votes: 0

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

Enlightenment does not mean getting rid of anything. It means changing one's frame of reference so that all things become enlightening. Votes: 0

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason. Votes: 0

Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival. Votes: 0

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

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

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

Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to become... Votes: 0

Enlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave realizes it is water. At that moment, all fear of death disappears. Votes: 0

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

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

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

Enlightenment of your brain means the limited capacity of your brain has to become unlimited in its capacity to realize God. Votes: 0

Enlightenment is finding that there is nothing to find. Enlightenment is to come to know that there is nowhere to go. Votes: 0

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

Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists. 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 goal of society in general is to succeed in the world, whereas the goal of enlightenment is to transcend beyond it. Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

You're an emanation of enlightenment. Enlightenment, which is the universe, has created the hallucination that is you in a form that shifts. Votes: 0

Enlightenment is a journey. It is a journey that is made alone. It is a journey that is made with a teacher. 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 universe is endless. Enlightenment is endless. You have only touched the outer periphery of the endless still center of perfect being. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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: 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

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

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

Secular humanism proposes ... the complete implementation of the agenda of modernism ... what is necessary for it to occur is a ... New Enlightenment. Votes: 0

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: 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

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

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: 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

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

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

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

Enlightenment doesnt occur from sitting around visualizing images of light, but from integrating the darker aspects of the Self into the conscious personality. 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 limitations that we can see of the sexual description of reality are very apparent. Very few men attain enlightenment, even fewer women. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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: 0

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: 0

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: 0

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No one on this earth attains enlightenment anymore without an enlightened master as a guide, unless that person was enlightened in many previous incarnations. 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

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

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

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

There are many paths that lead to enlightenment. There are lesser enlightenments along the way to a larger enlightenment, referred to sometimes as liberation. 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

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

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

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

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: 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

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

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: 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

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

The Enlightenment is not a nightmare, nor is it something that comes easily to us. It is an aspiration - and a good one! Votes: 0

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: 0

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: 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

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

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

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 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

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: 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

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: 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

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

Follow both: the call of the mountain of enlightenment and the temptation of the valley of experience. No mountain without valley, no valley without mountain. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own enlightenment. Votes: 0

Rae Chorze Fwaz was a mystery school. A mystery school is an occult order comprised of people who study meditation, enlightenment and psychic and occult arts. Votes: 0

It is possible to renounce everything and attain enlightenment. But most people don't want to renounce; they wish to run away from responsibility and hard work. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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: 0

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. 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

Rae Chorze Fwaz was a mystery school. A mystery school is an occult order comprised of people who study meditation, enlightenment and psychic and occult arts. Votes: 0

The intuitive wisdom that comes from your infinite mind can add to your creativity, success and well-being, and can take you to the threshold of enlightenment. Votes: 0

My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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: 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

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

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: 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

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

Many Eastern spiritual groups feel that women are not capable of enlightenment. They advise women to have sons and pray to be men in their next incarnations Votes: 0

Zen is a very quick path. Zen is the path of meditation. The word Zen means emptiness or fullness, meditation. Meditation is the quickest path to enlightenment. Votes: 0

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. 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

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: 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

It is necessary to disassociate oneself from those who would interfere with your success in enlightenment, in your career, in your life. They are not worth it. 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

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

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

Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world 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

Without enlightenment, everything in life is harsh. Sooner or later you see everyone you love die, unless you die first, of course. This causes you to suffer. Votes: 0

These are the mysterious ways of knowledge, power and enlightenment. I can only allude to them in words. I cannot possibly explain what this process is like. 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

These are the mysterious ways of knowledge, power and enlightenment. I can only allude to them in words. I cannot possibly explain what this process is like. Votes: 0

To become completely aware is the journey of enlightenment. There is pain in it and suffering. But you already have those things so it doesn't really matter. Votes: 0

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: 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

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: 0

Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world. 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

There are some careers that will develop your mind more than others. In the study of enlightenment, it is most important to develop your mind and your body. Votes: 0

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: 0

Whether or not enlightenment is possible at the moment of death, the practices that prepare one for this possibility also bring one closer to the bone of life. 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

Being on the path means we again meditate with joy. We deal with the suffering of life and the pain of existence without perfect enlightenment with a smile. Votes: 0

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: 0

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: 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

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: 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

I personally have fun with enlightenment, the study and the teaching of it. I get a kick out of doing it different ways because I don't think there is a "way". Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0