“How could the Buddha have believed that being incarnated as a human being was fortunate? Had he ever been to Georgia?” — Brenda Peterson Copy Share Image
You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment. — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
We're in an age of enlightenment, and we have a choice as a society which path to take. — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
True enlightenment is nothing but the nature of one's own self being fully realized. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“In the search of truth I lost myself; in the search of myself I found God.” — Shiva Negi Copy Share Image
A fully blossomed human potential is enlightenment. It is becoming a child again, and coming back to your original nature. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
“School rewards with a certificate; nature rewards with enlightenment.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Is enlightenment gradual or is it sudden? Whole schools of Buddhism have grown up around this issue. But it has always seemed… — Joseph Goldstein Copy Share Image
We are dominated on this planet by a fear-based rather than a love-based thought system. Enlightenment involves relinquishing the thought system based… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“There is no distinction between means and ends. There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way. There is no way… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Anything that is created must sooner or later die. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All souls do not reach enlightenment. Some souls reach a certain point and stay there. Some souls actually decline and go into… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment just means that you don't have a structural self. It means you've flipped through the gradated realities. Nothing binds, nothing clings… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Well, I believe life is a Zen koan, that is, an unsolvable riddle. But the contemplation of that riddle - even though… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“The goal of any spiritual person is to strive towards attaining self-realization by living spontaneously in the present moment of physical reality,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Authenticity is fundamental, more fundamental than spiritual enlightenment. Without authenticity, no genuine spiritual enlightenment is possible. Authenticity is the state of being… — Yasuhiko Kimura Copy Share Image
“If there is a person of the highest grade of understanding, he may first of all learn the most profound, next the… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“The world had opened out and so had the universe, or what she since had thought must have been the universe, lying… — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share Image
When Buddhists say, "A bodhisattva fears not the result, but only the cause," they mean that we must expend the bulk of… — Hsing Yun Copy Share Image
“Meditation is the art of learning to listen to our own heart. Meditation is the art of learning to listen to the… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“To be informed is to know simply that something is the case. To be enlightened is to know, in addition, what it… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
“When I did a therapist education in USA 1984, one of the course leaders – who had given personal and spiritual guidance… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“If death is perfect enlightenment, life appears to be the perfect opposite.” — Anthony Marais Copy Share Image
I think it is very important to view life in terms of winning and losing until complete enlightenment has occurred. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You're not capable of stepping into nirvana at this time. If you did it would be disastrous. You're tonal would be swamped. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Buddha’s dharma didn’t teach peace and relaxation; it taught awakening—often rude awakening. — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
“There is no greater success than the attainment of self-knowledge as the Supreme Consciousness (God).” — Shiva Negi Copy Share Image
The Buddha gave his first talks, and three or four ascetics became his first disciples. They recognized his enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“This is the sinking woman whose soul touched the ocean and caused it to storm kisses.” — Gloria D. Gonsalves Copy Share Image
“How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?” — Plato Copy Share Image
Enlightenment of your brain means the limited capacity of your brain has to become unlimited in its capacity to realize God. — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“Reinforce your positive thoughts and Redirect to the substantial energy of your frustration.” — Napz Cherub Pellazo Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment comes to the most dull-witted. It begins around the eyes. From there it radiates.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
More men will continue to attain enlightenment than women, unless women change their use of the second attention. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What they have done over the centuries is evolve the fine use of sexual power. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
