Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice. — Dogen Copy Share Image
How do you become enlightened? I don't know: Luck, karma, skill, friends in high places, friends in low places. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“If the earth needs night as well as day, wouldn't it follow that the soul requires endarkenment to balance enlightenment?” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values. — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
“And I envy you. You have the one thing that matters. You have all your discoveries before you.” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I believe I was at the peak of my enlightenment when I use to say you want fries with that. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Good humor and enthusiasm should be the sunshine ahead that will keep that shadow behind. — Charles W. Field Copy Share Image
Perfect mind, the diamond mind, radiating all universes through your being, each pulse beat is the universe, each breath, eternity. Enlightenment, try… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism regards all living creatures as being endowed with the Buddha nature and the potential to become Buddhas. That's why Buddhism teaches… — Hsuan Hua Copy Share Image
The idea of Buddha consciousness is that all beings are Buddha beings, and your whole function in meditation and everything else is… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
In meditation you can erase the conditioning. But still, you have to fight the description of the world that everyone else is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Buddhism is a religion of the heart. Only this. One who practices to develop the heart is one who practices Buddhism [...]… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
“Some people spend their whole lives seeking heaven, when all they needed to do was look about them, and embrace that which… — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
We live in a world of careers. Work, as Sri Krishna points out in the Bhagavad Gita, is a necessary path for… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Kirshna says its better to be a winner than a loser. It runs counter to what a lot of people whould think,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are many paths to enlightenment. Some of us who have expanded to a degree of illumination have thereafter preached the dogmatic… — Thaddeus Golas Copy Share Image
I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will… — Buddha Copy Share Image
People who are enlightened in previous lifetimes have a certain degree of difficulty in regaining their enlightenment. Sometimes it comes in childhood.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
So the Buddha is presenting awakening not as a single mystical experience that may come upon us at some meditation, some private… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“Buddha initially excluded women from his monasteries. When pressed, he made their entry conditional upon perpetual subservience to the lowliest (newest) male… — Joel Kramer Diana Astad Copy Share Image
“Among all shravakas and pratyekabuddhas, bodhisattvas are the foremost. So is the Lotus Sutra; among all sutras, it is the foremost! Just… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
One of the greatest things that ever taught me a super lesson was when I seen a baby come out of my… — RZA Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is not an experience at all, because the experiencer is lost. The "I", the ego is lost. Enlightenment is more like… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
Buddha had said: "Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Twenty or twenty-five years ago, contraception and enlightenment were held to be almost synonymous.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“All paths are valid, but in the end you will find that the realization of the ultimate truth is a pathless path.” — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
If you find yourself in some difficulty, step aside, and allow Buddha to take your place. The Buddha is in you. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“There is no satyayug, tretayug, dvapar or kali, there is only abhiyug - the yug here and now.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The unseen essential awaits your enlightened heart's ascension to love.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Simple kindness to one's self and all that lives is the most powerful transformational force of all. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed. — Ajahn Sumedho Copy Share Image
The secret to enlightenment is kindness and selfless giving. Without that, it's just words, isn't it? — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“At some magical instant you realize a deep Harmony with the universe. Enlightenment is that harmony.” — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is the ability to freely transact within the ten thousand states of mind without a continuous self or awareness — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s something which can’t be defined,” Enso Roshi says. “Maybe it’s a question, to be lived.” — T. Scott McLeod Copy Share Image
“The purpose of life is to reach a point where you can say 'yes' to all of it.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
“The Enlightenment taught that observation unrecorded was knowledge lost.” — Stephen E. Ambrose Copy Share Image
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