Enlightenment Quotes · Page 32

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

Enlightenment is the key to moving forward. The mind is illuminated with the truth. Stupidity is the absence of reasoning.

— Jeremy Limn

If you see the illusion you are enlightened, but if you think that you are enlightened you are in the illusion!

— H. W. L. Poonja

Instead of becoming the world’s expert on Buddhism, just let go, let go, let go.

— Ajahn Sumedho

“Most people fail because they confuse their gurus for their competitors.”

— Ritu Negi

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

— Dogen

“Everyone smiles in the same language, Happiness knows no frontiers, no age. No difference thar makes us feel apart if a smile…

— Ana Claudia Antunes

We remember a few people who've been enlightened. We build churches and edifices in their name. But few people, if any, feel…

— Frederick Lenz

That's the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human…

— Rajneesh

You're an emanation of enlightenment. Enlightenment, which is the universe, has created the hallucination that is you in a form that shifts.

— Frederick Lenz

The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved…

— Christopher Dawson

The path to enlightenment is really very simple - all we need to do is stop cherishing ourself and learn to cherish…

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good…

— Philip K. Dick

If you seek to develop the mind fully, for the enlightenment process, you will benefit if your career is related to computer…

— Frederick Lenz

The waking dreams of life as most people know them are spiritual experiences, but there is another order of spiritual experience and…

— Frederick Lenz

“In Guhyagarbha (māyājāla tantra) it is said: In any of the four times and ten directions Enlightenment will not be found Except…

— Longchen Rabjam

When we start talking about gurus, first of all we're starting to talk about something that can't be talked about, in the…

— Krishna Das

I'd like to say is that we shouldn't have an idea that the goal of spiritual practice is to annihilate ones ego,…

— Robert Thurman

“The old masters said if you met another Buddha on the road, you should kill him. All reality is an illusion: if…

— Edward W. Robertson

“2. The First Step in the Mental Training. Some of the old Zen masters are said to have attained to supreme Enlightenment…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“Emotional exhaustion follows fast on the footsteps of physical and mental depletion. I feel my lifeblood draining away in an oily spigot…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Buddhism and Christianity are incompatible because there is no God in Buddhism - particularly in Theravada Buddhism. But they are also allies…

— Ninian Smart

To nobody can you communicate in words and teachings, what happened to you in your hour of enlightenment.

— Hermann Hesse

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

— Gautama Buddha

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

— Master Del Pe

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

“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

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

— Michel Foucault

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

— Amit Ray

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