Top 100 Quotes About Enlightenment
#1. Enlightenment does not mean that your ego is suppressed or denied. It does mean that it is deconstructed, seen through, exposed, and then reeducated and reconstructed.
Jun Po Roshi
#2. Is the basic teaching of Buddhism - on ignorance, deliverance and enlightenment - really life-denying, or is it rather the same kind of life-affirming liberation that we find in the Good News of Redemption, the Gift of the Spirit, and the New Creation?
Thomas Merton
#3. Detachment is a basic requirement for seeking enlightenment. Anyone or anything we are attached to has power to manipulate us although we all have freedom to choose.
Hina Hashmi
#4. I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
Jimmy Wales
#6. Clarity clattered into my thoughts and brought about a satori, an enlightenment, if you will.
Stuart Ayris
#7. The quest for enlightenment illustrates the paradox of desire - the fact that you must have desire to be motivated to transcend being ruled by desire.
Paul O'Brien
#8. No matter how long you live, no matter how mature or philosophical you may grow to be, almost all sudden enlightenment will feel precisely this way, like a boot in the stomach, like acid on your tongue, and the sooner you accept this the better off you'll be.
Ron Currie Jr.
#9. Those who are actively seeking enlightenment will not find it because the act of looking for it is the distraction from it.
Enza Vita
#10. Enlightenment is the unfolding of the divinity within.
Michael Sharp
#11. 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.
Frederick Lenz
#12. For the first time, we live in a society that shows any sign of the possibility of women changing this condition.
Frederick Lenz
#13. To deal with someone from other infinites is problematic at times, to deal with a true master of all the realms of the yogas. We call them someone with the seven seals of enlightenment, meaning that their gradated perception has past through all the realms.
Frederick Lenz
#15. You will bring yourself the suffering you need to bring yourself so that you may awaken.
T. Scott McLeod
#16. Shed who you think you are, in order to experience who you really are.
Evita Ochel
#17. Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.
Peter Deunov
#18. If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation.
Johann Most
#19. If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!
Meryl Streep
#20. If there isn't an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment.
Eckhart Tolle
#21. Enlightenment is when there is no personal self, only the Creative Self, which is universal and impersonal in nature. It is when the personal self or personality is no longer the point of reference, but rather it becomes a tool to realize the True Self and to do its Creative Will.
David Cherubim
#23. When you love yourself, utterly and completely, all of yourself, what you will discover then is that you love others, all others, utterly and completely.
T. Scott McLeod
#25. 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.
Frederick Lenz
#26. JUST BECAUSE ANYONE CAN, DOESN'T MEAN EVERYONE SHOULD (Mrs. Peters to Conner Bailey)
Chris Colfer
#27. Love is something that we don't control. We have to be ourselves. You can be sexual, nonsexual, asexual, bisexual, or trisexual and it really doesn't have a lot to do with enlightenment.
Frederick Lenz
#28. Many women devlop the second attention, attract a great deal of sexual attention, and for many years, appear to be very vibrant and strong.
Frederick Lenz
#29. You will eventually face a greater truth, willingly or unwillingly. Those who willingly choose to see a greater truth now are given potential freedom through enlightenment, while those who choose to blind themselves are resigned to slavery through ignorance.
Derek Doepker
#30. The teacher has nothing to do with people who use their mental powers to block the enlightenment of others. These people lack control. What can you teach someone who lacks control?
Frederick Lenz
#31. Enlightenment is just the beginning, later on come other skills ... patience, a forgiving nature, extreme attention ...
E. J. Gold
#32. From human problems come human solutions, which in turn spawn inspiration, creativity, insight and enlightenment. Without life's problems, life would become stagnant, dull and boring.
Beth Johnson
#34. There's no right or wrong in the study of enlightenment. There's only experience.
Frederick Lenz
#35. Do you wish to take control of your life? Begin by focusing on steering the storm, rather than where the lightening strikes.
Gary Hopkins
#36. Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.
Adyashanti
#37. Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat. The supremest thing is the need of the body, not of the mind and spirit.
Mark Twain
#38. Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment.
Pearl Cleage
#39. 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.
Jan Peter Balkenende
#40. An enlightened thinker does not waste his precious time thinking about what others think of what he thinks.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#41. We play in the jungle gym of sexuality until our spirit takes us out into a clear field where we can see the stars, the ten thousand radiances of enlightenment. One of those radiances is the dance of sexuality.
Frederick Lenz
#43. For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation?
John Campbell Shairp
#44. The United States is the result of an enlightened philosophy; China is the outcome of traditions and history.
Patrick Mendis
#45. The people to become enlightened in Atlantis lit the "flame of enlightenment" on earth for the first time. The members of the various mystery schools have kept the flame alive by passing on the secret techniques for attaining enlightenment from the time of Atlantis to our present day.
Frederick Lenz
#46. Only a development of thought achieved through the self-education of the whole man can prevent any body of thought whatsoever from becoming a poison; can prevent enlightenment from becoming an agent of death.
Karl Jaspers
#47. The goal of the soul is to work toward enlightenment.
Jodi Livon
#48. Don't worry. These poses have nothing to do with meditation or enlightenment.
Dharma Mittra
#49. Finally, a principal reason for the lack of attention to "unclean spirits" and Jesus' "acts of power" in the Gospel stories is surely the modern "scientific" frame of mind that developed in the wake of the Enlightenment reduction of reality to what was natural and comprehensible by reason.
Richard A. Horsley
#50. Do not allow consumerism to dictate your spiritual practice. You need nothing more than your focused attention to gain enlightenment.
Gary Hopkins
#51. [Josiah P. Mendum memorial at Paine Hall]
[He turned] the strait-laced Boston of sixty years ago [into] the enlightened Hub of today, ... to 'destroy bigotry and uproot the evils of superstition.
Josiah P. Mendum
#52. The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.
Theodor Adorno
#53. The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into our next life. There are no coincidences.
Raquel Cepeda
#54. SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.
Ambrose Bierce
#55. Shouldn't those who were born to expect death be the sole subjects of gleaning?" went the popular wisdom. But it was bigotry masquerading as wisdom. Selfishness posing as enlightenment.
Neal Shusterman
#57. The values we rightly associate with the modern age - the "liberty, equality, and fraternity" of the French revolution - are all endangered today not by the dead hand of tradition but by modernity itself, and they can be salvaged only by moving beyond it.
Harvey Cox
#58. Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
Socrates
#59. Only the rich can achieve enlightenment because the poor are too busy looking for fridge freezers.
Rajneesh
#60. 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.
Frederick Lenz
#61. Perhaps enlightenment, technology and secularism haven't cleared Europe of the oldest science of all - the occult.
Adam Nevill
#62. The family gives you ambition, and ambition is one of the hindrances for enlightenment. It gives you desires, it gives you a longing to be successful, and all these things create your tensions, your anxieties: how to be a celebrity?
Rajneesh
#63. Through reading the scriptures, we can gain the assurance of the Spirit that that which we read has come of God for the enlightenment, blessing, and joy of his children.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#64. In America people have this funny idea about enlightenment and money. Money expresses a level of commitment. Studying enlightenment is like going to a university.
Frederick Lenz
#65. Enlightenment is a destructive process. It
has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the
crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing
through the facade of pretence. It's the
complete eradication of everything we
imagined to be true.
Adyashanti
#66. Enlightenment is the ability to comprehend ourselves, it is the power to peer into our hearts and minds and reach that state of spiritual bliss, which may or may not lead us to salvation.
Balroop Singh
#68. 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.
James Buchan
#69. The Buddha achieved enlightenment as he sat under the spreading limbs of the Bodhi tree, breathing in and out in silence, as does a tree.
Nalini M. Nadkarni
#70. Whoever does decide to awaken should put their whole effort, attention, and life into it, in order to make it succeed.
Belsebuub
#71. People say that practicing Zen is difficult, but there is a misunderstanding as to why. It is not difficult because it is hard to sit in the cross- legged position, or to attain enlightenment. It is difficult because it is hard to keep our mind pure and our practice pure in its fundamental sense.
Shunryu Suzuki
#72. Kundalini can be transmitted. A person who is very adept at the enlightenment process can transmit it. Whether you feel it or not, it's affecting you in a very positive way.
Frederick Lenz
#73. Nirvana's not like anything you've ever known or experienced because it can't be known or experienced.
Frederick Lenz
#74. In our era, just as in every transitional age, God seems dead, but it is really our Enlightenment culture that has died.
Robert Inchausti
#75. There's not really a whole lot you could say about liberation. The closest experience you can have of it is to come meditate with someone who is liberated.
Frederick Lenz
#76. The prayer that is heard is not of many words ... but of Oneness
Vivian Amis
#77. I was already writing about the idea of a 'multiverse' in the 1970s, though I might have called it the 'pluriverse.' How was I to know it would turn out to be the standard model? Actually, I consider myself an enlightenment fossil.
Charles Jencks
#78. The Encyclopedia
the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment ...
Peter Prange
#79. Enlightenment is not a goal to be attained, it is a state-of-being to be regained.
Kim Chestney
#81. If a man wanted to put the entire universe in his breast, he couldn't do it with his chest stuck out.
Eiji Yoshikawa
#82. To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#83. People imagine enlightenment will make them incredibly powerful, And it does. It makes you the most powerful being in all the universe- but usually no one else notices.
Brad Warner
#84. The more we try and understand enlightenment the more it will elude us. And that's because enlightenment does not come from the mind. It comes form 'no-mind.' It comes form just being. You are already enlightened. You just have to realize it to allow it into your experience.
Anita Moorjani
#85. The soul knows only to love. While the ego criticizes everything, including the ego itself ...
Akemi G
#86. The process of education takes place in the field of consciousness; the prerequisite to complete education is therefore the full development of consciousness - enlightenment. Knowledge is not the basis of enlightenment, enlightenment is the basis of knowledge.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#87. Enlightenment means choosing to dwell in a state of presence rather than in time. It means saying yes to what is.
Eckhart Tolle
#88. I believe in the Enlightenment, Devra. And I don't think that's gonna change. Not now. Not ever.
Felicia Hajra-Lee
#89. 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.
Joan Halifax
#90. 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.
Morihei Ueshiba
#91. 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.
Frederick Lenz
#92. Well, then, eliminate the people, curtail them, force them to be silent. Because the European Enlightenment is more important than people.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#93. Enlightenment is not like a Big Bang - it is an ongoing process.
Sadghuru
#94. Do you want some advice? Go home. You're far too inquisitive, and here in East Carmine curiosity only ends one way."
"Death?"
"Worse - enlightenment.
Jasper Fforde
#95. If you go through life expecting nothing chances are you'll be content most of the time.
Mark W. Boyer
#96. We are all blessed ones. Heaven is no longer in the clouds. It is right here, all around us, everywhere; we must only open our eyes to see it.
Kim Chestney
#97. Walking away from bad situations and negative people sets a healthier tone for the rest of your life. It also gives those who do not know any better the opportunity to self-correct.
Gary Hopkins
#98. This surrender, by a man of the Enlightenment and a man of truly revolutionary and democratic temperament, is another reminder that history is a tragedy and not a morality tale
Christopher Hitchens
#99. All beings exist ultimately in a condition of inner enlightenment. Enlightenment is in all things.
Frederick Lenz
#100. To regain our morale, we need both enlightenment (knowing what to do) and encouragement (feeling confident that we can do it).
Chaitanya Charan Das
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