Enlightenment Quotes · Page 40

Ultimately, you have to work for your own enlightenment - for smarts - or it gets boring.

— Sissy Spacek

“See with a different eye, visualize with a colorful mind, manifest your thoughts with the energy within.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Dharma is another name for existence. It is existence in its purest form.

— Frederick Lenz

“Dharma – the foundation of all human goals be, Refers to obligations, conduct, moral duties; - 25 -”

— Munindra Misra

When you are realized, you can start feeling your own chakras and the chakras of other people. This is enlightenment.

— Nirmala Srivastava

Taking refuge means that you align and orient your life toward Buddha's example and toward enlightenment.

— Reb Anderson

To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.

— Gautama Buddha

Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think.

— Van Morrison

We, especially those of us in depoliticized and pacified societies, need to cast a colder eye at our self-perceptions, now and in…

— Pankaj Mishra

The Buddha taught some people the teachings of duality that help them avoid sin and acquire spiritual merit. To others he taught…

— Akkineni Nagarjuna

“It is neither cowardice nor betrayal to insist that the Enlightenment's main lesson is to be mindful of how much it has…

— Samuel Moyn

The practice of meditation is a way of continuing one's confusion, chaos, aggression, and passion—but working with it, seeing it from the…

— Chogyam Trungpa

The Lord Buddha was once asked by a disciple to sum up the whole of His teaching in one verse. He replied:…

— Arthur E. Powell

In the spiritual search doubt is beneficial, a closed mind is not. Doubt used wisely assists enlightenment; a closed mind assists ignorance.

— Ian Gardner

We have ideas of God and nirvana or truth or enlightenment. These ideas will go away in nirvana because the suffusion is…

— Frederick Lenz

Almost anyone can see the golden light in an enlightened master's aura when the master meditates, unless, of course, the person is…

— Frederick Lenz

Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another's word for it. We need to…

— Ajahn Chah

Dharma has several connotations in South Asian religions, but in Buddhism it has two basic, interrelated meanings: dharma as 'teaching' as found…

— Taitetsu Unno

How will you get God's grace? When you discipline yourself. How will you know how to discipline? By observing others that had…

— Sivananda

“Because we feel ourselves to be separate from the world in which we live, we have also grown to feel quite alone…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

I think real enlightenment is total sanity, a kind of acceptance of what actually is. It does involve a kind of different…

— Brad Warner

I think people are always looking for gurus. It's the easiest thing in the world to become a guru. It's quite terrifying.…

— Doris Lessing

“Taking part in your own creation is as simple as changing your mind. The way you think literally creates your everyday reality.…

— Gary Hopkins

The Buddhist, who thanks no man, who says "Do not flatter your benefactors," but who, in his conviction that every good deed…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Prince didn't want to celebrate birthdays but to live life, to elevate and educate to the next level of enlightenment.

— Mayte Garcia

“Bringing to light what had been hidden in darkness should not overwhelm you, but EDUCATE you.”

— Solange nicole

It is not necessary to meet your guru on the physical plane. The guru is not external.

— Neem Karoli Baba

Don't become a Buddhist. The world doesn't need Buddhist. Do practice Compassion. The world needs more compassion.

— Dalai Lama

“Is it a weakness not being able to hate? Or is it preparation for what is inevitable, the ability only to love.”

— Tom Althouse

“Clarity clattered into my thoughts and brought about a satori, an enlightenment, if you will.”

— Stuart Ayris

Words are a distraction to enlightenment. Getting rid of conceptual thinking means enlightenment.

— Ramesh S Balsekar

For the first time, we live in a society that shows any sign of the possibility of women changing this condition.

— Frederick Lenz

Obstructions on the way to enlightenment, are you kidding? Hey, they crucify people here. You think this is an easy place?

— Frederick Lenz

“If I say "A lotus for you, a Buddha to be," it means, "I see clearly the Buddha nature in you.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

I believe in Buddhism. Not every aspect, but most of it. So I take bits and pieces.

— Tiger Woods

The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation.

— Alan Cohen

Zen was an attempt to get back to the purest teachings of the Buddha -enlightenment without strings.

— Frederick Lenz

“Enlightenment, awakening or liberation can never be attained by seeking or desiring. It is realized only through experience.”

— Gian Kumar

The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.

— Kenneth Burke

“On who listens learns; one who learns listens; one who listens and learns is on the path to enlightenment.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo