Top 32 Quotes About The Path To Enlightenment
#1. 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
#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. People can hate on you for doing what it is that makes you happy, but ultimately, it has to belong to you. It shouldn't matter what anyone else thinks. Life is not easy. The road to happiness is not a path well trotted. You have to find your own path to enlightenment.
Jamie Campbell Bower
#4. To learn, you must be humble. You must be prepared to admit your ignorance. You must allow yourselves to be filled with the vital information presented to you via the skills and dedication of those who have gone before you down the long path to enlightenment.
Paula Brackston
#5. Zen is a very quick path. Zen is the path of meditation. The word Zen means emptiness or fullness, meditation. Meditation is the quickest path to enlightenment.
Frederick Lenz
#6. The further we travel down the path of enlightenment, the more humble we become. We shouldn't seek to impress others - or allow ourselves to be taken - with mere outer trappings. If we do our inner work, our spirit will be our calling card. Nice to meet you.
Philip Toshio Sudo
#7. There's a path in enlightenment called the path of negation where we intentionally throw ourselves into experiences that are extremely transient. In other words, we do all the stuff you're supposed to normally avoid to become enlightened, intentionally.
Frederick Lenz
#8. Have we," asks Claude de Saint-Martin, the great 'unknown philosopher,' "have we advanced one step further on the radiant path of enlightenment, that leads to the simplicity of men?" Let us wait in silence: perhaps ere long we shall be conscious of "the murmur of the gods.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#9. The path that one person follows is not the correct path for any other person. Each of us must walk his own path to enlightenment - that is the way.
Wu Wei
#10. Music has always been the greatest expression of mortal philosophy," continued Lucky. "The path to enlightenment is found in the lyrics of Spinal Tap.
A. Lee Martinez
#11. Zen is a very fast path to enlightenment, fast in comparison to some other paths, not fast for the person who practices it. There is no sense of speed.
Frederick Lenz
#12. A scientist must be a traveller, an explorer. Knowledge comes from experience. ... The path to enlightenment is never linear.
Joanne Owen
#13. 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
#14. If you stay on this path as long as I have, you'll soon learn that the road to providence leads right through perdition. And along that road, the devil's waiting to collect his pound of flesh.
Jay Grewal
#15. There is a common misunderstanding that if you are going to be a "good" Buddhist, you will have to leave your career and run off to the woods to meditate 24/7 until you reach enlightenment. I don't think you have to do that in order to follow a spiritual path. I have seen my
Lodro Rinzler
#16. Zen is a very quick path to enlightenment and development of the mind and all its facilities.
Frederick Lenz
#17. The path to inner peace already exists. It was forged by others before us.
Lynne Cockrum-Murphy
#18. Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment.
Pema Chodron
#19. You think you want to know the secrets of the universe. You think you want to see the way things all fit together. You believe in your heart of hearts that enlightenment will save the world and set you free.
Maybe it will.
But the path to enlightenment is rarely a pleasant one.
Neal Shusterman
#20. The circumstances of confusion will be your path to enlightenment' - Thursday Next
Jasper Fforde
#22. Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
Bell Hooks
#23. Enlightenment is illusive and can only be received by those who ask for it and by those who are worthy to receive it. Only then will you be shown the path.
Robert Palasciano
#24. Those who feel the impulse to pursue the path of enlightenment should immediately take the step, and not defer it while they attend to all the other things on their mind.
Yoshida Kenko
#25. The advanced education in Tantra obviously has to do with the entrance into samadhi, the negation of the self. That is what the path of negation means, not the negation of life, but the negation of anything that is not enlightenment.
Frederick Lenz
#26. The approach is that the best way to use unwanted circumstances on the path of enlightenment is not to resist but to lean into them.
Pema Chodron
#27. Start to see yourself for who you really are: a traveller, an explorer or on the path of life, confidently advancing along the path of enlightenment towards your destiny. Don't lose sight of the things that are truly vital in your life.
Robin Sharma
#28. Many paths lead to the Door of Enlightenment. Beware those that proclaim there is but one.
Mary Summer Rain
#29. The path to enlightenment is when you allow presence, love and gratitude to overlap your ego.
Matthew Donnelly
#30. The path to enlightenment, to find out who you truly are, has to be taken alone.
Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla
#31. The path to enlightenment is really very simple - all we need to do is stop cherishing ourself and learn to cherish others. All other spiritual realisations will naturally follow from this.
Kelsang Gyatso
#32. One of the most despicable religious fallacies is that suffering is ennobling, that it is a step on the path to some kind of enlightenment or salvation.
Aleksandar Hemon