Enlightenment Quotes

..we have become wealthy, and wealth is the prelude to art. In every country where centuries of phys...

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand years is tr...

By reflecting a little on this subject I am almost convinced that those numberless small Circuses we...

When one has attained a state of mind from which the evil passions of the present world have been so...

The sage is still not because he takes stillness to be good and therefore is still. The ten thousand...

In the midst of darkness, he alone sees the dawn; in the midst of the soundless, he alone hears harm...

When a man does not dwell in self, then things will of themselves reveal their forms to him. His mov...

The man who has forgotten self may be said to have entered Heaven.

A man like this will not go where he has no will to go, will not do what he has no mind to do. Thoug...

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Actual freedom has not increased in proportion to man's awareness of it.

The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from ...

She shook her head. "It sounds suspiciously like Nirvana." "What's wrong with that?" "Pure Spirit, o...

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,The proper study of mankind is Man.Placed on this isthmus...

Poetic justice, with her lifted scale,Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs,And solid p...

While pensive poets painful vigils keep,Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

Enlightenment is coming out from the fear mode, victim mode and guilt mode of living to the mode of ...

Enlightenment gives profound joy of the heart and a great love for the fellow beings.

Remember your connection with the cosmos. Remember your connection with the infinity and that rememb...

Enlightenment is making friendship with the whole existence.

There is a rose in every heart. Enlightenment is recognizing that rose.

Enlightenment is living in the light of cosmic collaboration.

Enlightenment is something that you've been resisting to happen. It’s not something you have to stru...

There are twenty one mystical dimensions of consciousness. Enlightenment is abiding in the highest t...

Enlightenment is the transforming process that makes one kind, happy, and compassionate to the world...

Everyone has the fire, but the champions know when to ignite the spark.

At some magical instant you realize a deep Harmony with the universe. Enlightenment is that harmony.

Enlightenment is the complete flowering of body, mind and the soul.

Enlightenment is the moment when you are most alive and most compassionate.

Suddenly you realize that you are the mother of the Universe, eager to protect, transform and care e...

Collaboration has no hierarchy. The Sun collaborates with soil to bring flowers on the earth.

Enlightenment is blossoming the thousand petaled lotus flower on the top of the head.

Be the ocean let the river come to you.

Raise you awareness and share your uniqueness to the world.

Witnessing is the alchemy of enlightenment. It can transform mud into gold.

Enlightenment is making every cell, gene and DNA as the radiator of peace and harmony.

Witnessing is not flowing with the current of the river but observing the flow from the bank of the ...

There is a music of the universes in every heart.

Enlightenment is the transformation that brings out the highest human qualities. It is the process t...

Enlightenment is tuning our consciousness to music of the universe.

And suddenly you realize: you are in every dot of the universe vanishing and arising.

Enlightenment comes when you understand the language of heart - the language of tree, birds and the ...

Your greatest awakening comes, when you are aware about your infinite nature.

You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.

Enlightenment is the ultimate nourishment for body, mind, and soul. It is the ultimate freedom and e...

One cannot transcend the body or mind just by repeating the mantra "I am not the body and I am not t...

Om is not just a sound or vibration. It is not just a symbol. It is the entire cosmos, whatever we c...

Renunciation is the art of removing the barriers between one’s self and others.

Deep down there is a rose in every heart.

Cultivate blessing. Bless yourself. Bless the whole world. Let it be full with love, peace, joy and ...

Be the radiator of peace. Go to the center of your inner being. Radiate peace in every direction.

I say, "it seemed to me," for from the depths of my past childhood, there now awoke in me the glimme...

The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazin...

Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.

I'm an old-fashioned guy. I believe in the Enlightenment, and reason, and logic, and you know, facts...

Human intellectual progress, such as it has been, results from our long struggle to see things 'as t...

The universe does not reveal itself to undergraduates or fools: This is the entire premise of higher...

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balmines...

Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own bei...

For thousands of years humans were oppressed— as some of us still are— by the notion that the univer...

What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body.

Just because ANYONE CAN, DOESN'T MEAN EVERYONE CAN.

JUST BECAUSE ANYONE CAN, DOESN'T MEAN EVERYONE SHOULD (Mrs. Peters to Conner Bailey)

So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the ha...

We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or...

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went...

A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how ...

HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing,...

If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, t...

The world had opened out and so had the universe, or what she since had thought must have been the u...

It is significant comment on the victory of science over magic that were someone to say ‘if I put th...

Enlightenment is not an attainment, it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes an...

Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment.

Sometimes enlightenment descends upon you when you least expect it...

When you dig a well, there's no sign of water until you reach it, only rocks and dirt to move out of...

If there is a dark and hostile power, laying its treacherous toils within us, by which it holds us f...

We believed in another world, but we admitted the feebleness of our senses. Then came 'enlightenment...

...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in w...

So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify fro...

You occasionally hear it said that spiritual aspirants should drop everything and set off for the wo...

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

Man, when he is re-born, passes through the ages as he who is born; and the preceding state is alway...

I have often been asked why I maintained such a non-compromising antagonism to government and in wha...

They were in a position of total ignorance and people in that position often died without being enli...

What is it that has called you so suddenly out of nothingness to enjoy for a brief while a spectacle...

It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenmen...

I have said: "Blow out the lamp! Day is here!" And you keep saying: "Give me a lamp so I can find th...

With rope-ladders learned I to reach many a window, with nimble legs did I climb high masts: to sit ...

Bhikkus, all is burning. And what is the all that is burning?The eye is burning, visible forms are b...

Whoever sees me sees the teaching, and whoever sees the teaching sees me.

All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.

He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opp...

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as ou...

What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did...

They [his readers, whom he asks to be his friends] will find that I have always loved truth so passi...

You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and,...

It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows...

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Book...

An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope...