Top 100 Quotes About Self Enlightenment
#2. For a long time, when it's working, the drink feels like a path to a kind of self-enlightenment, something that turns us into the person we wish to be, or the person we think we are. In some ways the dynamic is simple: alcohol makes everything better, until it makes everything worse.
Caroline Knapp
#3. Religions are the training wheels of self enlightenment. They can be helpful in the beginning but at some point they must be let go.
Reggie Watts
#4. Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.
John Olsen
#5. Those who are actively seeking enlightenment will not find it because the act of looking for it is the distraction from it.
Enza Vita
#7. Shed who you think you are, in order to experience who you really are.
Evita Ochel
#8. Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.
Peter Deunov
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. Do you wish to take control of your life? Begin by focusing on steering the storm, rather than where the lightening strikes.
Gary Hopkins
#12. 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
#13. Do not allow consumerism to dictate your spiritual practice. You need nothing more than your focused attention to gain enlightenment.
Gary Hopkins
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. We are figments of the same imagination ... We are one
Gary Hopkins
#18. The fearful seek to serve themselves by mastering the world, while the fearless seek to serve the world by mastering themselves.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#20. True enlightenment is nothing but the nature of one's own self being fully realized.
Dalai Lama
#21. One of the greatest mistakes that people make who pursue self-discovery is they neglect to develop their careers. There is a popular notion that those who seek enlightenment should abandon the things of this world.
Frederick Lenz
#22. Being more self-aware means welcoming more light into a dull life. When we throw light upon our self-perceptions, we immediately realise that the light has always been there, yet we had created an illusion of darkness.
Raphael Zernoff
#23. There is a rose in every heart. Enlightenment is recognizing that rose.
Amit Ray
#24. You are a victim only when you have decided to play the part.
Gary Hopkins
#26. To think is to have doubt ... yet even thinking will bring you to "no thought" ... eventually.
Vivian Amis
#27. Enlightenment comes when you understand the language of heart - the language of tree, birds and the nature.
Amit Ray
#28. They are denied access to the more advanced techniques of releasing the kundalini energy, which bring about quantum leaps in self-awareness.
Frederick Lenz
#29. You will not die if you abandon them. You will not lose if you abandon them. You will gain something greater. If you do not abandon them you will never reach enlightenment, nor find your self that is at peace.
Woo Myung
#30. There is nothing we could add to that which has already been created ... perfection.
Vivian Amis
#31. A compulsive external search only leads us to the interpretation of another's path. True identity and sustained harmony can only be achieved by turning inward, and it is there that you will find every answer that you need to step into enlightenment
Gary Hopkins
#32. Science has proven that subatomic particles can exist in two places at once. Since we are all made up of these particles, then this simple fact should drastically re-define every limitation that you think you have.
Gary Hopkins
#33. The one who protects the body-complex (pudgal) is not the 'enlightened one' (Gnani). A Gnani is the protector of only the Soul and it's natural attributes.
Dada Bhagwan
#34. The smallest component of the human molecule is a vibration - the equivalent to a musical note. Taking the time to learn more self-awareness at this level creates life experiences beyond that of all the greatest symphonies ever heard
Gary Hopkins
#35. In order to know the Truth, you have to be out of your mind.
Vivian Amis
#36. Worship is invoking the divinity within. Meditation is awareness of divinity within. Enlightenment is realization of divinity within. Nirvana is being the divinity
Rashmit Kalra
#37. So once these needs are fulfilled, nobody is going to value these things. If you are well-fed, peaceful, blissful, happy, well-loved, with nothing to complain about, you will not value food, peace, love, compassion so much.
Sadhguru
#38. The effort to lift one's self into perfect enlightenment is a profound thing. It has nothing to do with individual will. It's a refraction of the cosmos. The cosmos delights in itself.
Frederick Lenz
#39. The miracle of enlightenment is that you take the self and let it dissolve in the white light of eternity.
Frederick Lenz
#40. The way to embody love completely is to see and appreciate life just as it is, and not as you believe, fear, or desire it to be.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#41. A Zen master is someone whose life is one with enlightenment and self-discovery. They can never be separated from that. They've been essentially mastered by Zen.
Frederick Lenz
#42. Attaining bliss can take lifetimes, or one can simply choose to experience it in their deepest dreams. Sleep well my friend, as dreams are vehicles that can quickly take you to the awareness that you call Nirvana
Gary Hopkins
#44. It is equally easy, initially, for either a man or a woman to attain enlightenment, what we would call liberation or self-realization.
Frederick Lenz
#45. The rough must always accompany the smooth. Without one or the other one learns nothing about oneself.
Solange Nicole
#46. Never allow dogmatic interpretations of Karma to keep you from defending what is right or just. You must accept the reality that on occasion, you may very well be the proper instrument of this cosmic force.
Gary Hopkins
#47. Unfortunately, fact checking has become a lost art
Gary Hopkins
#48. Don't become a spiritual bigot. Don't feel that just because you meditate and you are striving for enlightenment that you are in any way superior to any other person. Be even. Be easy. You will last longer on the pathway to self-discovery.
Frederick Lenz
#49. The deepest realization of meditation is that your being is a non-being. It is a nothing, a vast emptiness without boundaries. It is a no-self. The feeling of self, of "I" is false.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#50. Enlightenment just means that you don't have a structural self. It means you've flipped through the gradated realities. Nothing binds, nothing clings to you. You're unaffected by everything.
Frederick Lenz
#51. To be able to see one's own faults; this is known as Enlightened vision (Samkit; Self-realization; right belief).
Dada Bhagwan
#52. The greatest asset to the human experience is the ability to navigate one's emotions. By practicing the skill of detachment, one can successfully step back from the potentially destructive and tune into the purely positive
Gary Hopkins
#53. Whatever is in your hands, you keep that in perfect condition; then what is beyond you will anyway happen. But people are always trying to work at what is beyond them, not taking care of what is in their hands.
Sadhguru
#54. The very way that you think is a crucial component to your overall health and well being. Living towards the negative will only foster conflict and a sense of lack, while living towards the positive will create more opportunity for you to experience harmony and abundance.
Gary Hopkins
#55. Now, what's stirring in this murky sea of complexity and foolishness is an almost suffocating need to breathe fresh history.
Laurie Perez
#56. I am very interested in the enlightenment of women. Very few teachers of advanced self discovery work with women, and if they do it's usually in a very second handed way. They treat women as second class citizens.
Frederick Lenz
#57. Never allow your ego to diminish your ability to listen.
Gary Hopkins
#58. If somebody asks me what enlightenment is, I say that it is simply recovering conscience.
Ilchi Lee
#59. Questioner: One question comes to my mind: if everybody looked inward, what would happen? Sadhguru: You would have a sensible world. (Laughs) Is that a danger?
Sadhguru
#60. That the self advances and confirms the ten thousand things is called delusion; that the ten thousand things advance and confirm the self is called enlightenment.
Dogen
#61. There is the experience of enlightenment, to be very aware of what lies beyond the boundaries of cognitive perception, reflection and self-awareness as seen by the personality.
Frederick Lenz
#62. 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
#63. Enlightenment isn't about reaching a destination of "knowing", it is about developing consistent vibrational harmony within one's self and with the surrounding world.
Alaric Hutchinson
#64. Nirvana is a step beyond. You dissolve into the universe. The universe dissolves into you until there is no longer a difference. There is no sense of individual self as perceiver.
Frederick Lenz
#65. The ego resists change. False pride is an impediment to change.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#67. Emotional awareness is the tether between our Awakened and Dream States. It is the bridge that connects our island in the physical realm to the unexplored Universes that are waiting for us.
Gary Hopkins
#68. Ruthlessly, in despite of itself, the Enlightenment has extinguished any trace of its own self-consciousness. The only kind of thinking that is sufficiently hard to shatter myths is ultimately self-destructive.
Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer
#69. When a man does not dwell in self, then things will of themselves reveal their forms to him. His movement is like that of water, his stillness like that of a mirror, his responses like those of an echo.
Zhuangzi
#70. I have travelled many places but still I find that perhaps the greatest journey is through one's own mind.
Anonymous
#72. Questions are only offensive to those who have something to hide
Gary Hopkins
#73. Never put yourself in a position to be made an example of.
Gary Hopkins
#74. You can either wonder or worry. It is better to choice the former.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#75. Finding the calmness or serenity in oneself effectively diffuses the judgments of others
Gary Hopkins
#76. Greed for enlightenment and immortality is no different than greed for material wealth. It is self-centered and dualistic, and thus an obstacle to true attainment. Therefore these states are never achieved by those who covet them; rather, they are the reward of the virtuous.
Laozi
#77. We must empower our weak to be strong, and teach our strong to be compassionate. This will open a door to oneness.
Gary Hopkins
#78. The degree to which your Consciousness expands, is the degree to which you understand yourself and the universe.
Gina Charles
#81. When you have experienced the depth of your inner self, the idea of enlightenment is no longer a goal to strive towards, but rather an attitude to maintain.
Gary Hopkins
#83. Enlightenment is man's exodus from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is the inability to use one's understanding without the guidance of another person..'Dare to Know'(sapere aude) Have the courage to use your own understanding;this is the motto of the Enlightenment.
Immanuel Kant
#84. Living in oneness is in itself the highest form of
self-realization, beyond any enlightenment or higher
Consciousness.
Gian Kumar
#85. What is enlightenment? In the Korean tradition of Tao, it is known a Mu-Ah (Mu means "No" or "Nothing" and Ah means "Me"). It is no-me-ness, or egoless-ness. It means realizing the true, unchanging nature of the person you happen to be.
Ilchi Lee
#86. You will always have time for what you make time for
Gary Hopkins
#87. Metaphysics is the study of how to shift the self. How to get outside the self-reflection and to just gaze with awe and wonder at the countless universes, the countless celestial radiances of mind, of life, of enlightenment, nirvana, or God, whatever you want to call it.
Frederick Lenz
#88. When a bully is held accountable for his actions, his future actions will change. Bad behavior only continues for those who allow it.
Gary Hopkins
#89. On any given day, you will reach to the state of realization; you will never find any other God, except you. You are the God, you are searching for, either externally or internally.
Roshan Sharma
#90. My mother's a Buddhist. In Buddhism, if you want to achieve enlightenment, you have to do it through meditation and self-improvement through the mind. That's something she's passed on to me: to be able to calm myself down and use my mind as my main asset.
Tiger Woods
#91. Because not even the least Dharma is there found or got at. Therefore is it called 'utmost, right and perfect enlightenment'. Self-identical is that Dharma and nothing is therein at variance. Therefore is it called 'utmost, right and perfect enlighten'
Gautama Buddha
#92. Consumer goods become enlightenment, relationships, anything! It doesn't really matter because infinity exists in everything. "Greater than the greatest, smaller than the smallest, the self dwells in the hearts of all," that is the Upanishads.
Frederick Lenz
#93. The way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust, and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice.
Nhat Hanh
#94. Meditation is an excellent habit and tool for transformation, however your 'practice' should eventually evolve into your natural primary state of being.
Gary Hopkins
#95. You have eternity to experience your awakened self. So why not enjoy the dream while you're in it, even if it is limited?
Teresa Tsalaky
#96. And suddenly you realize: you are in every dot of the universe vanishing and arising.
Amit Ray
#97. Once there is realization of self challenge, ego versus soul, competition with others becomes futile.
T.F. Hodge
#98. Things do not happen to us ... They happen because of us
Gary Hopkins
#99. Raise you awareness and share your uniqueness to the world.
Amit Ray
