Enlightenment Quotes · Page 17

“The sound of one hand clapping is thunderous”

— johnjwillard

“Seek not revenge, but the Buddha.”

— Neil Gaiman

“True education is enlightenment.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Nirvana is where you are, provided you don't object to it.

— Alan Watts

The word 'guru' is very loaded, so I would never refer to myself that way. I see myself as a teacher.

— Gabrielle Bernstein

One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.

— Paul Theroux

All beings exist ultimately in a condition of inner enlightenment. Enlightenment is in all things.

— Frederick Lenz

Buddhism is in your heart. Even if you don't have any temple or any monks, you can still be a Buddhist in…

— Nhat Hanh

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

— Nhat Hanh

Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.

— Eckhart Tolle

The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity.

— Deepak Chopra

Women have allowed you to think that, which is a part of their inaccessibility in using their second attention.

— Frederick Lenz

There are some careers that will develop your mind more than others. In the study of enlightenment, it is most important to…

— Frederick Lenz

That is the ultimate synthesis - when Zorba becomes a Buddha. I am trying to create here not Zorba the Greek but…

— Rajneesh

There's many lanes on the highway of enlightenment, they don't have to be on the razor's edge like the yellow line dotted…

— Surya Das

I still consider myself a liberal in the Enlightenment sense of the word. But I have to admit that being a liberal…

— Claire Fox

When you meditate with an enlightened teacher, you will feel something from them. They just dissolve completely, absorption in nirvana, where they…

— Frederick Lenz

Meanwhile, followers of Eastern religions are sitting in the middle of their minds, experiencing a bliss and a level of consciousness that…

— George Carlin

“If you attain unsurpassable, complete enlightenment, all sentient beings also attain it. The reason is that all sentient beings are aspects of…

— Dōgen

“The supreme artist lives as closely as possible to replicating the perfect dream, with life unfolding in a manner that a person…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Everything is taken away from him; he is nothing and has nothing; yet he still feels one thing which utterly compensates for…

— Paul Brunton

People can hate on you for doing what it is that makes you happy, but ultimately, it has to belong to you.…

— Jamie Campbell Bower

“Buddhism asks big questions about birth and death, cause and effect, emptiness and form, delusion and enlightenment. I just hope you’re not…

— Karen Maezen Miller

“Even when I thought, with most other well-informed, though unscholarly, people, that Buddhism and Christianity were alike, there was one thing about…

— Chesterton Books

It is easy to imagine that the Buddha, the awakened one, is something or somewhere other than here or that awakening to…

— Adyashanti

“the question, "What and who is Buddha?" Yuen Wu (En-go) replied: "Hold your tongue: the mouth is the gate of evils!" while…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“To sit a long sesshin is a major blow to our hopes and dreams, the barriers to enlightenment. And to say that…

— Charlotte J. Beck

I think we should be very clear on this. You know, this country was founded on the principles of the Enlightenment... It…

— Wesley Clark

There's no right or wrong in the study of enlightenment. There's only experience.

— Frederick Lenz

Enlightenment is just the beginning, later on come other skills . . . patience, a forgiving nature, extreme attention . . . .

— E. J. Gold

Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.

— Bodhidharma

Enlightenment is when all hope disappears. Enlightenment is disappearance of hope.

— Rajneesh

How can one become enlightened? One can, because one is enlightened - one just has to recognize the fact.

— Rajneesh

For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation?

— John Campbell Shairp

If you want to find Buddha nature, love someone and care for them.

— Dainin Katagiri

“Ignorance causes pain, but awareness creates happiness. Therefore, look for enlightenment every day.”

— Linda Alfiori

Godliness is the fragrance of the man who has attained enlightenment.

— Rajneesh

Everything aids everything, because all things are a reflection of the Buddha mind, of the mind of Enlightenment.

— Frederick Lenz

Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

— Bodhidharma

“A buddha is an idle person. He doesn't run around after fortune and fame.”

— Bodhidharma