Enlightenment Quotes · Page 27

Everyone is afraid of enlightenment, knowledge, completion. People are afraid of being exposed.

— Frederick Lenz

Paradoxically, the more deeply one grows in enlightenment, the more clearly one discerns one's own frailties and limitations.

— Kim Hee-jin

The Buddha is not a person but a (state of) realization to which anyone can attain.

— Swami Vivekananda

I don't believe that human beings can achieve ultimate enlightenment, because humans have flaws.

— Tiger Woods

“Sciences and theologies are my playthings, I'm the pulse before reason and scriptures.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Enlightenment doesn't simply mean being in heavenly states of mind. It doesn't mean being a saint.

— Frederick Lenz

“Meditation is not what your mind does: whether it is silent or not. Meditation is what you do with your mind.”

— Satish Tripathi

Buddhism is all about finding your own way, not imitating the ways of others or even the ways of Buddha himself.

— Brad Warner

“Is enlightenment gradual or is it sudden? Whole schools of Buddhism have grown up around this issue. But it has always seemed…

— Joseph Goldstein

The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is…

— Anonymous

I think Enlightenment as an epistemic ideal involves rejecting the appeal to a fundamental stratum of non-conceptual self-evidence.

— Ray Brassier

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

— M. H. Abrams

However far-fetched it may sound, experience shows that many neuroses are caused by the fact that people blind themselves to their own…

— Carl Jung

“If ignorance is bliss, than knowledge is blissful enlightenment or a serious pain in the butt - depends on how I feel…

— M.P. Sharma

“No matter how much grandeur a person has, if he does not like bondage even for a single moment, then he has…

— Dada Bhagwan

A real enlightened teacher is intense and they could care less what you think about anything at any time since you are…

— Frederick Lenz

Enlightenment is part of everything and so our minds have to be very big to encompass all things, to understand all things…

— Frederick Lenz

By god the Buddhist means that from which the universe was born, the unborn of the Buddhist scriptures, and by soul that…

— Christmas Humphreys

The courage to be as oneself within the atmosphere of Enlightenment is the courage to affirm oneself as a bridge from a…

— Paul Tillich

“To learn, you must be humble. You must be prepared to admit your ignorance. You must allow yourselves to be filled with…

— Paula Brackston

“In the West everyone wants the “highest” practice, a wish that indicates a misunderstanding of the path. Everyone wants to hurry through…

— Tenzin Wangyal

“If a teacher or a so-called guru offers you enlightenment, tells you he has all the answers, claims his way is the…

— karma yeshe rabgye

In a post 9/11 world, in which the uncritical essentializing of people from the "Third-World" has been legitimized; Iraq and Afghanistan have…

— Nyla Ali Khan

What, concretely, is Enlightenment ?" "Seeing Reality as it is," said the Master. "Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?" "Oh, no!…

— Anthony de Mello

“Enlightenment is not about cocooning one’s self, but about integrating more fully with both your self and life.”

— Jay Woodman

“The world suddenly vanished from view like a morning mist. I was left alone with Reality.”

— Paul Brunton

I'd been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta.

— Lorene Cary

“Knowledge is a gift. Understanding is a prize. Wisdom is a blessing. Enlightenment is your reward.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

— Amit Ray

The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.

— Michel Foucault

“Invest in your enlightenment; it pays the highest life dividends.”

— Master Del Pe

I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment.

— Gautama Buddha

When we wake up from our confused state of mind, that is enlightenment.

— Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

“To attain to enlightenment is to attain to all. When you are not, you become the whole.”

— Swami Dhyan Giten

There's a strong aspect of Buddhism which is geared towards ending all fertility.

— Quentin S. Crisp

We have to leave everything we have been, a perceiver, "I" as an individual. That is enlightenment.

— Frederick Lenz

Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there's no mind.

— Bodhidharma

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

— Alan Watts

The last thing we should do is allow ourselves to be infantilized by a counterfeit version of enlightenment.

— Marianne Williamson

“All time is illusion, unless it's a record of love. Life is but illusion, till it's an instrument of love.”

— Abhijit Naskar