“Enlightenment is beyond Description and Analysis 2. Enlightenment Implies an Insight into the Nature of Self” — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“We are in the age of enlightenment of what environmental radiation is and what it is doing to all life on Earth.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is 'the quiet acceptance of what is'. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
God is your very being. So the first thing is, don't think about enlightenment as a goal. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It's possible to be completely enlightened... except with your family. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“It is not so much about fighting against the ego; it is more about harmonizing with it.” — Grace Sara Copy Share Image
“The one whose ego has dissolved, he can please anyone in this world, and he can deal with everyone, with equanimity .” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The sexual energies returned, when they're not evolved, are still linked with violence and the fear of power - the fear of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is freedom, the thought of enlightenment is prison. The truth exists in the moment. If we´re anywhere else, seeking something outside… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
If you've made a lot of negative seeds, and not a lot of positive seeds, even though you meet with the dharma,… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“The essence of enlightenment … is a big understanding, which gives you a deep and wide perspective to see the world as… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, critics were skeptical of America's naive faith… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
The family gives you ambition, and ambition is one of the hindrances for enlightenment. It gives you desires, it gives you a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We have met with the dharma. Many of us have met with teachers. We do have some idea of what to do… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Buddhist nirvana ... is based on egolessness and is not anthropocentric but rather cosmological. In Buddhism, humans and the things of the… — Masao Abe Copy Share Image
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. Today the greatest divide within humanity… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Suttas are not meant to be 'sacred scriptures' that tell us what to believe. One should read them, listen to them, think… — Ajahn Sumedho Copy Share Image
“We choose ignorance because we can . We choose awareness because we can . Samsara and nirvana are simply different points of… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Copy Share Image
September 11 was a day of de-Enlightenment. Politics stood revealed as a veritable Walpurgis Night of the irrational. And such old, old… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
If you become very close to your teacher, if you do well in your meditation, a deep emotional bond will develop between… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“One of the great gifts of the Enlightenment is that we can form communities without necessaily agreeing on ultimate metaphysical grounds. We… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“He who recognizes that he is separate from the Prakruti (Relative Self) is a Gnani Purush (Enlightened One).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The most important problem for our world to solve is the inequality of men and women. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“True wisdom is being able to say 'it is what it is' with a smile of celebratory wonder on your face.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
Do not practice buddha-dharma with the thought that it is to benefit others. — Dogen Copy Share Image
The Zen expression “Kill the Buddha!” means to kill any concept of the Buddha as something apart from oneself. — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment. — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
Truly, he thought, the way of enlightenment is like unto half a mile of broken glass. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“if we are attached to our own tenets, view, and practice we will not realize Mahamudra.” — Sangyes Nyenpa Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Scared of the truth Scared of the proof Scared of the minds Enlightening the youth — Deri Isaac Copy Share Image
“Witnessing is not flowing with the current of the river but observing the flow from the bank of the river.” — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
“Buddha is sometimes called the ‘Awakened One’ because he has awakened from the ‘sleep’ of ignorance.” — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
Nirvana and enlightenment exist just on the other side of your sensory perceptions and your thoughts. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Reading books about enlightenment does not make you enlightened at all. You have to meditate yourself. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“You always drop by, to en- lighten my mind, when my wings are feeling heavy & i've forgotten how to fly.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
