Enlightenment Quotes · Page 23

Men are really not all that interested in sex. For most men, sex is a very simple experience.

— Frederick Lenz

Enlightenment is nothing but your consciousness being concentrated on a single point - now and here.

— Rajneesh

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

I have been following Buddhism since 11 years now. I love the sound of chanting.

— Sourabh Raj Jain

“Enlightenment isn’t when you go there; it’s when there comes here.”

— Jed McKenna

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

— David Brin

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

— Christopher Paolini

“Mass culture is enlightenment in reverse. Its goal is precisely to wipe out that last little garrison of human autonomy.”

— Rick Roderick

“Life is like a sandwich! Birth as one slice, and death as the other. What you put in-between the slices is up…

— Allan Rufus

Through reading the scriptures, we can gain the assurance of the Spirit that that which we read has come of God for…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Behind the transient reality, there is something else. It is a deeper, more permanent and unchanging reality that we Buddhists call nirvana.

— Frederick Lenz

There are two worlds, the world of desire and the world of enlightenment. The world of enlightenment doesn't go anywhere. It is…

— Frederick Lenz

I realize that there's a thing called the bodhisattva ideal, and it's a very nice pinnacle of attention. It's a very egotistical…

— Frederick Lenz

When we start to talk about gurus, we're talking about beings who actually know what this is all about. They know who…

— Krishna Das

This is the central idea of the Gita- to be calm and steadfast in all circumstances, with one's body, mind, and soul…

— Swami Vivekananda

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

“We are condemned to be modern. We can’t escape the facts of our history or of living in an age dominated by…

— David Watson

“It would be wonderful if everyone, everywhere, could slip so easily into the kingdom of heaven, and just as easily stay there…

— Paul Brunton

“The modern scientist attempts to step outside of himself in order to observe himself, an attempt that is always doomed to failure.…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from ordinary reality.…

— Robert Thurman

Once you are enlightened, you don't do wrong things. You don't take to wrong things. Then you start understanding all these prophets,…

— Nirmala Srivastava

If the minds of living beings are impure, their land is also impure, but if their minds are pure, so is their…

— Nichiren

[Michael] Chabon, who is himself a brash and playful and ebullient genre-bender, writes about how our idea of what constitutes literary fiction…

— Emily Barton

“Buddhism is not a belief system. It’s not about accepting certain tenets or believing a set of claims or principles. In fact,…

— Steve Hagen

If you could train an AI to be a Buddhist, it would probably be pretty good.

— Reid Hoffman

Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.

— D.T. Suzuki

The miracle of enlightenment is that you take the self and let it dissolve in the white light of eternity.

— Frederick Lenz

“Your actions show what you know, and your replies to obstacles give clarity into what you will learn.”

— Grace Sara

The day-to-day life we lead has nothing to do with enlightenment. It is just around the corner, and we don't see it.

— Frederick Lenz

Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.

— D.T. Suzuki

“The path to enlightenment is not a path. It is a realization that you are already the goal.”

— Susan Shumsky

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

— Rabindranath Tagore

But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.

— Bodhidharma

“In so many ways we are still in the dark ages, but there is light appearing over the horizon of choice and…

— Bryant McGill

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

— Elon Musk

People always snap and think they're Jesus. How come no one ever snaps and thinks they're Buddha?

— Bill Hicks

“Only the light that shines from within can be true enlightenment.”

— Rian Nejar

“Spirit did not enter flesh to suffer; it entered flesh to awaken inside it.”

— Sean B. McElhill

When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.

— Atifete Jahjaga

“The more you know, the less you talk. The less you talk, the more you know.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana