Enlightenment Quotes

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

He suddenly understood the message of so many spiritual teachers that the only revolution that can work is the inner transformation of every human being.

The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.

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

Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!

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

Enlightenments, like accidents, happen only to prepared minds.

Consider a very natural process, menstruation, and how the association has been created in which this process is dirty, degrading.

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

One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

Your enlightenment is more powerful than your ignorance.

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

Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.

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

They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.

There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice.

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

It is perhaps wrong to say that the enemy of enlightenment is logic; rather, it is dualistic, verbal thinking. In fact, it is even more basic than that: it is perception.

There is strong shadow where there is much light.

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

Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.

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

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

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

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

Gain is delusion; loss is enlightenment.

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.

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.

Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.

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

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.

Enlightenment, peace, and joy will not be granted by someone else. The well is within us, And if we dig deeply in the present moment, The water will spring forth.

Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment.

Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done.' We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.

Practice and enlightenment are not two.

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.

Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everythiong else.

What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body.

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

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

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

There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.

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

Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment.

But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.

Enlightenment is eliminating mental confusion, eliminating hatred, jealousy, mental toxins, cravings. That's very simple and straightforward. Whether you can do it or not is another matter.

An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.