The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is the realization of the oneness of being, where otherness disappears. — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
Enlightenment means that you're in love with all of life, with not only immortality but mortality. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Long since I have liberated my self from race, religion and ignorance.” — johnjwillard Copy Share Image
“You can forget about yourself and still know you will always do everything you are supposed to do.” — Jill Spiewak Eng Copy Share Image
“Enlightened Consciousness 16. Buddha Dwelling in the Individual Mind Enlightened Consciousness is not an Intellectual Insight” — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Mankind's biggest blunder, ignorance. Mankind's second, infallible.” — M.T. Dismuke Copy Share Image
For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is not a higher way to be. It is just experience. All humanity is enlightened. We are all at different parts… — Allura Eshmun Copy Share Image
“Thoughts, by their nature, come and go endlessly in you. But you are not the thought; you are the one seeing the… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
“the teachings of the Buddha are always meant to be put into practice in order to remove mental afflictions and suffering, and… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
It is possible to move to an enlightened state of mind from a lower bardo or level of awareness. It can happen,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
That which is right is different for each one of us in each situation. There isn't a moral code that I or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's an adversarial world outside of the safety of nirvana and enlightenment. In life, all beings need to feed on other beings… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What the enlightened person sees no one could ever tell or describe. Wonder beyond belief. We live in a universe filled with… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To an experienced Zen Buddhist, asking if one believes in Zen or one believes in the Buddha, sounds a little ludicrous, like… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
In order to understand why one chooses to be a Tantric practitioner, there has to be an understanding of cause and effect,… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“I don’t know where I’m going on this path. I don’t know what I’m doing with my life. You had to be… — T. Scott McLeod Copy Share Image
Martin Swinger is one of those rare singer-songwriters who excels at everything: singing, songwriting, guitar-playing, and being so present with his humor,… — Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the greater consciousness among Whites about Black equality has not carried over to the new victims of racism - Muslims and… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Can you picture Ghandi or Buddha storming into the polling place of a local election, shouting, overturning tables, sending the participants fleeing?… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
“A person only experiences the fathomlessly beautiful and mysterious particulars that constitute reality by giving up the distorting spectacles of our egotistical… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The one philosophy or religion I find I am most close to is the Buddhist one. I think it is the one… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
“Do not think that enlightenment is going to make you special, it’s not. If you feel special in any way, then enlightenment… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Buddhism leads you to the awareness that all things are holy. Everything is holy. The dark has its own light, in other… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha's discovery was happiness and bliss. — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
“When the world is filled with evil, transform all mishaps into the path of enlightenment.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“Satsang (association with the Self) means to understand, 'What this world is and what it is not.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The only time and place to find enlightenment is in this moment. No need to check your watch. The time is now. — Philip Toshio Sudo Copy Share Image
I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is a timeless void. It's an emptiness that's filled with the most excellent light. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Let whatever happens, be what needs to happen, so that I may awaken.” — T. Scott McLeod Copy Share Image
“...to be aware of the miracle entailed in every moment of living...” — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“Wisdom may teach you that all places are one, but love shows you how to get there.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
I have never said that there is no need for a guru. All depends on what you call guru. He need not… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Remember, the greatest gift to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism. — Moliere Copy Share Image
Simply by performing good actions and thinking good thoughts you will not attain enlightenment. It takes something more. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Buddhism is not a religion, but rather a way to finding happiness.” — His Eminence Gyalwa Dokhampa Copy Share Image