Enlightenment Quotes · Page 43

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

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

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

— Frederick Lenz

“Smartass Disciple: Master, please show me the way to the enlightenment. Master of Stupidity: Walk with me! [but I won't let you…

— Toba Beta

People imagine enlightenment will make them incredibly powerful. And it does. It makes you the most powerful being in all the universe-…

— Brad Warner

If we want to really see the Buddha, we should observe his virtuous qualities. Whatever he taught, we should practise it. Only…

— Ajahn Chah

Technology isn't fulfilling its promise of unlimited progress and solving every problem through technology. With the Enlightenment and its aftermath, there already…

— Thomas Keating

In the enlightenment cycle, attention is paid to bringing back the awareness field from other lives. This does not simply mean memory,…

— Frederick Lenz

We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon.…

— Barry Ritholtz

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are…

— Alan Watts

The key to enlightenment lies in a secret that very few people have ever known, but which Jesus knew well. The way…

— Gary Renard

“In Dzogchen one learns to become responsible for oneself without following rules. A person who follows rules is like a blind person…

— Namkhai Norbu

Enlightenment is the mind that is open to anything, but attached to nothing. That is freedom. No values, no resentment, no grudges.…

— Gary Busey

As I study both the exoteric and the esoteric schools of Buddhism, they maintain that human beings are endowed with Dharma-nature by…

— Dogen

“For love to flourish, the light of your presence needs to be strong enough so that you no longer get taken over…

— Eckhart Tolle

“Life doesn’t have a singular purpose and yet we try to pigeonhole this infinite gift by searching for a single meaning behind…

— L.M. Browning

It is dangerous for a spiritual master to accept almost any aspirant. Although it is an aspect of mercy, it is dangerous.…

— Bhakti Tirtha Swami

I am a child of the Enlightenment. I think irrational belief is a dangerous phenomenon, and I try to consciously avoid irrational…

— Noam Chomsky

There's a strong nativist tradition - saying, "we have to protect ourselves" - that comes from the founding of the country. If…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Alan Cohen

“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

A Guru is there to show you what you are. You are not different from Me. Whatever I am, that is what…

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“Wisdom is my religion. Books are my priest. Libraries are my temple. Enlightenment is my heaven.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.

— Bill Richardson

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

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

— Ramesh S Balsekar

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

— Stuart Ayris

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

— Frederick Lenz

Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

— Dalai Lama

Enlightenment means that you've become a sophisticated perceiver, without letting anyone know that you're sophisticated.

— Frederick Lenz

The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.

— Adyashanti

Practicing Dharma is the supreme method for improving the quality of our human life.

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso