Quotes About Satori

#1. Satori has no beginning; practice has not end!

Kodo Sawaki

#2. Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience
any fucking thing. No Holy Grail, No Final Satori, no final solution. Just conflict.

William S. Burroughs

#3. Satori is a brief flash. Suddenly the light breaks through. For a short timeless time we experience eternity in its unmanifest form. It's comparable to salvikalpa samadhi.

Frederick Lenz

#4. Today's satori:
Such a change of mind would
Not exist without
My lifelong habit of having
My mind immersed in blossoms.

Saigyo

#5. After this happens again and again, we reach a point were there is nothing but satori, which is what nirvikalpa samadhi is like.

Frederick Lenz

#6. This profoundly disturbed me, because I had had several kensho or satori-like experiences (glimpses of One Taste), but they were all generally confined to the waking state.

Ken Wilber

#7. Each of the small enlightenments that a Zen practitioner has, which are known in Zen as "Satori experiences," provides deeper insights into the nature of existence and helps a person prepare for complete enlightenment.

Frederick Lenz

#8. I want to take you to a place of pure magic ... It's the place athletes call the "zone". Buddhists call "satori" and ravers call "trance". I call it the Silver Desert. It's a place of pure light that holds the dark within it. It's a place of pure rhythm.

Gabrielle Roth

#9. Zen is the way of complete self-realization; a living human being who follows the way of Zen can attain satori and then live a new life as a Buddha.

Zenkei Shibayama

#10. Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening.

Hakuin Ekaku

#11. Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.

Bruce Lee

#12. To be aflame with silence, with joy, is wisdom. It is not through logic but through love. It is not through words but through a wordless state called meditation or a state of no-mind, satori, samadhi.

Rajneesh

#13. I'm not speaking as someone who has reached satori or anything else. I'm a student.

Sting

#14. Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you'll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding.

Martha Beck

#15. In Zen, such a glimpse is called satori. Satori is a moment of Presence, a brief stepping out of the voice in your head, the thought processes, and their reflection in the body as emotion.

Eckhart Tolle

#16. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any fucking thing. No Holy Grail, No Final Satori, no solution. Just conflict. Only thing that can resolve conflict is love, like I felt for Fletch and Ruski, Spooner, and Calico. Pure love. What I feel for my cats past and present.

William S. Burroughs

#17. If we achieve satori and the satori shows, like a bit of dogshit stuck to the top of our nose, that is not so good.

Taisen Deshimaru

#18. For our race to achieve the true satori, for us to move to that next level of consciousness and evolution that so many of our philosophies proclaim, all facets of human endeavor must become conscious strivings for art.

Dan Simmons

#19. Clarity clattered into my thoughts and brought about a satori, an enlightenment, if you will.

Stuart Ayris

#20. A man can deceive a woman by his sham attachment to her provided he does not have a real attachment elsewhere.

Jean De La Bruyere

#21. Better than I was, more than I am
And all of this happen by taking your hand
And who I am now is who I wanted to be
And now that we're together
I'm stronger than ever I'm happy and free

Tim McGraw

#22. We have to recognise that the validation of identity comes through relationships we have and what we produce.

Eva Cox

#23. The buttons of his dark blue uniform allude to an ongoing border dispute with his soft belly.

Colson Whitehead

#24. I don't want to be Jewish, I want to be British," she announces in early December.

Pamela Druckerman

#25. With respect to the books of the New Testament, particularly such parts as tell us of the resurrection and ascension of Christ, any person who could tell a story of an apparition, or of a man's walking, could have made such books; for the story is most wretchedly told.

Thomas Paine

#26. There may be a brighter star. But through my eyes the light of you is all I see.

Stevie Wonder