Quotes About Spiritual Enlightenment

#1. Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.

Walter Isaacson

#2. Forces of light on earth shall overcome the force of darkness. Complete spiritual enlightenment on earth will occur.

Edgar Cayce

#3. The inward offer is a kind of spiritual enlightenment, whereby the promises are presented to the hearts of men, as it were, by an inward word.

William Ames

#4. The reason for spiritual enlightenment is not to escape life, but to learn how to live it richly, to enjoy it.
The Language of Soul

Harold Klemp

#5. In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.

Wayne Dyer

#6. A burrito is a delicious food item that breaks down all social barriers and leads to temporary spiritual enlightenment.

Lisi Harrison

#7. Rather than being any longer a threat to the established androcratic order, Christianity became what practically all this earth's religions, launched in the name of spiritual enlightenment and freedom, have also become: a powerful way of perpetuating that order.

Riane Eisler

#8. I didn't have to go all the way to India for spiritual enlightenment. The blue-collar spirituality of everyday life was right in front of me, it was in every nook and cranny if I wanted to seek it, but I had chosen to ignore it.

Anthony Kiedis

#9. One should plan for spiritual enlightenment. At least bring a flashlight.

Lia Hills

#10. Spiritual enlightenment is the ultimate goal for all of humanity, not just a chosen few. Be helpful, not hurtful

L.J. Vanier

#11. Whatever their neurological and molecular antecedents, hallucinations feel real. They are sought out in many cultures and considered a sign of spiritual enlightenment.

Carl Sagan

#12. Do you want to eat Peyotl and human flesh on the path to spiritual enlightenment? Or just for the hell of it? Join the ancient cult of Anasazi.

Warren Ellis

#13. There is indeed something preposterous about well-educated Westerners racing East in search of spiritual enlightenment while Easterners make the opposite pilgrimage seeking education and economic opportunities.

Sam Harris

#14. In a special sense ... the three great natural states of waking, dreaming, and deep sleep contain an entire spectrum of spiritual enlightenment.

Ken Wilber

#15. Adversity itself may lead toward and not away from God and spiritual enlightenment; and privation may prove a source of strength if we can but keep a sweetness of mind and spirit.

David O. McKay

#16. Those who are actively seeking enlightenment will not find it because the act of looking for it is the distraction from it.

Enza Vita

#17. You will bring yourself the suffering you need to bring yourself so that you may awaken.

T. Scott McLeod

#18. Do you wish to take control of your life? Begin by focusing on steering the storm, rather than where the lightening strikes.

Gary Hopkins

#19. The goal of the soul is to work toward enlightenment.

Jodi Livon

#20. Do not allow consumerism to dictate your spiritual practice. You need nothing more than your focused attention to gain enlightenment.

Gary Hopkins

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. We are figments of the same imagination ... We are one

Gary Hopkins

#25. Spiritual Choice towards Light will open your eyes, you will see things, which you haven't seen before...

Jacklyn A. Lo

#26. You are a victim only when you have decided to play the part.

Gary Hopkins

#27. I make time every day to think.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. Self enlightenment is the greatest endowment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#29. Sex is the alpha and enlightenment is the omega. Sex is the first step of the spiritual journey, and enlightenment is the last step of the spiritual journey.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#30. Enlightenment seems paradoxical but all it needs is compassion

Priyanka Deshmukh

#31. Enlightenment is not an attainment; it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes. If a blind man realizes that he can see, has the world changed?

Dan Millman

#32. My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense.

Polly Toynbee

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. In order to know the Truth, you have to be out of your mind.

Vivian Amis

#38. Once you awaken, you will have no interest in judging those who sleep.

James Blanchard Cisneros

#39. Can you allow yourself to be impaled on the present moment?

T. Scott McLeod

#40. 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.

Stanislav Grof

#41. Who wants to be stuck in being religious and being spiritual either? That's not freedom. You've just exchanged handcuffs for leg irons - which doesn't mean that you should avoid enlightenment.

Frederick Lenz

#42. No spiritual master who ever walked the earth has anything on you. You're the complete package, the real deal. You just don't remember it yet.

Carrie Triffet

#43. 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. Life gives you exactly what you need to awaken.

T. Scott McLeod

#45. Flaky devotionalism, bowing and scraping and sucking up to the teacher is very phony. It is counterproductive to enlightenment and spiritual development. What is necessary is mutual respect.

Frederick Lenz

#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. To be able to see one's own faults; this is known as Enlightened vision (Samkit; Self-realization; right belief).

Dada Bhagwan

#50. 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

#51. The real meditative practice is to open up to the full range of what happens in life. And parenting is a fantastic arena for doing that kind of spiritual training. It's as much a potential door into enlightenment as anything else.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#52. 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

#53. Never allow your ego to diminish your ability to listen.

Gary Hopkins

#54. That which you see in me is that which is in you. ~ Maitreya Miranda* ~

Miranda Linda Weisz

#55. 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

#56. An apology can be a wonderful thing so long as it is infrequent and from the heart. However, beware of the person who justifies bad behavior with apologies. For them it is a means to an end, and quite often at your expense.

Gary Hopkins

#57. Instead of old spiritual distinctions you have new spiritual distinctions, instead of old worships you have new worships. You are all depending for your spirituality on someone else, for your happiness on someone else, for your enlightenment on someone else

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#58. Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?

Rumi

#59. He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.

Gautama Buddha

#60. The greater your inner light the brighter your outer world.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#61. Questions are only offensive to those who have something to hide

Gary Hopkins

#62. Never put yourself in a position to be made an example of.

Gary Hopkins

#63. It is the rub that polishes the jewel," Enso Roshi says. "Nobody ever gets to nirvana without going through samsara. Nobody ever gets to heaven, without going through hell. The center of all things, the truth, is surrounded by demons.

T. Scott McLeod

#64. Finding the calmness or serenity in oneself effectively diffuses the judgments of others

Gary Hopkins

#65. The soul's joys are greater than the heart's pleasures.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#66. We must empower our weak to be strong, and teach our strong to be compassionate. This will open a door to oneness.

Gary Hopkins

#67. I had less and became more.

Nikki Rowe

#68. 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

#69. You are not seeking to attain some future state. That is the fallacy of many spiritual seekers. They have an image of some state - enlightenment, or whatever they call it - they want to achieve.

Eckhart Tolle

#70. Positive, truthful and helping people always get rewards. Oneness, love, compassion and enlightenment can be attained by following the spiritual laws of the universe. -Hina Hashmi

Hina Hashmi

#71. You will always have time for what you make time for

Gary Hopkins

#72. Question what you think is enlightenment.

Jon Bernie

#73. To see through the illusion of duality, remember that fear and darkness have no substance in themselves, for they do not indicate the presence of a second universal force, but are only names given to the one Light unperceived.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#74. Let one who seeks not stop seeking until that person finds.

T. Scott McLeod

#75. 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

#76. Enlightenment has nothing to do with being spiritual. Being spiritual is just an idea - it's another ring of perception.

Frederick Lenz

#77. There is only one way of attaining liberation and of obtaining the omniscience of enlightenment: following an authentic spiritual master.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#78. The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilliser.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#79. As God talked with Arjuna, so will He talk with you. As He lifted up the spirit and consciousness of Arjuna, so will He uplift you. As he granted Arjuna supreme spiritual vision, so will He confer enlightenment on you.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#80. Do not give up when touching the Door of Awareness, you meet its Mindfulness Magic, but let it open wide giving your family a possibility to Create Reality of Your Dreams.

Natasa Nuit Pantovic

#81. Life is delicious. Waste not one bite!

A.D. Posey

#82. Illusion (maya) cannot enter where there is 'light' (enlightenment, awareness). Once darkness falls, illusion will enter there. The Gnani Purush can arrange for your illusion to go away permanently.

Dada Bhagwan

#83. Meditation is an excellent habit and tool for transformation, however your 'practice' should eventually evolve into your natural primary state of being.

Gary Hopkins

#84. Many people are so poor that the only thing they have is money. Cultivate your spiritual growth.

Rodolfo Costa

#85. The wider our conscience, the wider the impact of our actions, and I do believe someone with more light has the moral duty to enlighten others.

Robin Sacredfire

#86. Enlightenment arrives like a thief in the middle of the dark night of the soul.

Stefan Emunds

#87. Once there is realization of self challenge, ego versus soul, competition with others becomes futile.

T.F. Hodge

#88. Things do not happen to us ... They happen because of us

Gary Hopkins

#89. The Ego uses the mind as a means of spiritual search. It is through the mind that the Ego intends to understand what is beyond mind and forms. The mind in this way prepares the mental image of enlightenment, seeking, happiness etc.

Frank M. Wanderer

#90. Do not limit your Sacred Space to the literal, such as a small room or office. Allow this energy to flow from deep within, so that every where you go, no matter what the circumstance, you will always be immersed in the divine

Gary Hopkins

#91. Angry obsessive thoughts about another weaken your state of mind and well being. If you must have revenge, then take it by choosing to be happy and let them go forever.

Gary Hopkins

#92. Our lives are a divine expression no matter how messy and weird they may be. How much more meaningful can it get? The source is experiencing itself in form in a conscious, awake way.

Enza Vita

#93. Let whatever happens, be what needs to happen, so that I may awaken.

T. Scott McLeod

#94. It's always best to feel fulfilled first, before finding a man. Then you'll know the value of yourself, and you'll hold the key to your own happiness. So you won't turn into a vulnerable, needy, emotional mess the minute you fall in love.

Menna Van Praag

#95. He who controls the minds of others is a 'Gnani' (the enlightened one). Only when your mind is completely under your control, can other's mind come under your control. How can the other persons mind come under your control when one has disturbances himself.

Dada Bhagwan

#96. Enlightenment is beyond self-improvement and spiritual seeking. It is the final resolution of a case of mistaken identity. It is the direct recognition of your eternal nature and the seeing through of who you have falsely believed yourself to be.

Gary Crowley

#97. A person must cultivate their personal tutelary spirit in order to achieve their ultimate visage.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#98. When a fully qualified Mahayana disciple relies completely upon a fully qualified Mahayana Spiritual Guide the attainment of enlightenment is easy.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#99. Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

Ramana Maharshi

#100. I never realized it was all a game,
until I started winning.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal