Enlightenment Principles Quotes

#1. But it wasn't just the pace that made them feel suspended, like they were doing little more than drifting. It was the odd feeling that they'd been set loose into the world with nothing - and no on - left to reel them back again.

Jennifer E. Smith

#2. We can only hope to live a meaningful life by serving as earnest witnesses to life's tragic beauty.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#3. Iraqis are sick of foreign people coming in their country and trying to destabilize their country.

George W. Bush

#4. [E]scaping is its own special brand of pain, and tied to you always are the strings of the souls who didn't save themselves. ~ "The Worst You Ever Feel

Rebecca Makkai

#5. The highest degree of human attainment comes when a person is blissfully at peace with his or her own nature and the natural world.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#6. The supreme artist lives as closely as possible to replicating the perfect dream, with life unfolding in a manner that a person could never conceive or direct.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#7. When a person understands the problem that vexes them, and comprehends the choices that created them, they begin a journey of the mind seeking personal liberation from suffering.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#8. Britain must lead in Europe to intensify the fight against global terrorism and make our country safer.

Gordon Brown

#9. The ego with its protective defense mechanisms is the biggest impediment to attaining spiritual growth.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#10. Determine where you are and where you wish to be. Then use all of your self-effort to make that happen, following the guiding principles of all the Buddhas and bohisattvas and seekers of the dharma, of enlightenment.

Frederick Lenz

#11. I clean my own utensils, my house and I even travel alone. I don't know what the life of a superstar is like.

Esha Gupta

#12. Life flows at ease whenever a person ceases complaining about the past, worrying about the future, lives in the now without resisting pain, and accepts the moral sublimity of living in a state of grace.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#13. At some magical instant you realize a deep Harmony with the universe. Enlightenment is that harmony.

Amit Ray

#14. Nature blessed every person with the innate capacity to express wonder and awe for the eternal world and act with a kind and unstinting soul.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#15. Love is nothing, nothing, nothing like they say.

Liz Phair

#16. We're connected to the Buddhist order, to the mind of enlightenment. All day long we draw the power and force from that world, from all the teachers and all the adherents of the practices and the principles.

Frederick Lenz

#17. It's embarrassing to admit how many times I've reread the following: 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,' '1984,' 'Lord of the Flies,' 'The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter,' 'Germinal,' 'We Have Always Lived in the Castle,' and 'A Moveable Feast.'

Suzanne Collins

#18. When men are scared of a woman, they always accuse her of being mannish.

Elizabeth Aston

#19. Who needs to go somewhere when you can read about it.

Pseudonymous Bosch

#20. The Good Man
Better an enmity from one block
than friendship held together by glue.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#21. Serenity of mind produces an expanding awareness that fosters creative selflessness, which in turn enables us to experience unabashed harmony communing in rhythmical bliss with nature.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#22. A person must always be ready to kindle the candle in their heart and fill the void in their soul by unveiling into a courageous, peaceful, and loving person.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#23. Don't take everything for granted, and do not always count on finding everything you need.

Larry Herzberg

#24. The ego resists change. False pride is an impediment to change.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#25. Fun is fun
Done is done.

Deyth Banger

#26. The road to enlightenment requires a life dedicated to self-study, accepting the minor tragedies of life as an ineluctable part of the human condition.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#27. A person only experiences the fathomlessly beautiful and mysterious particulars that constitute reality by giving up the distorting spectacles of our egotistical appetites and repulsive pretensions, shedding artificial attachments, living without grand illusions, and free of deceptive delusions.

Kilroy J. Oldster