Enlightenment Quotes · Page 25

Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.

— Bodhidharma

Women have very powerful second chakras, and the goal is to move that energy up and use it.

— Frederick Lenz

“Om is the things, Om is the ingredient, Om is the container and the content of this universe.”

— Banani Ray

Historically men have suppressed women quite effectively. They have suppressed women since the beginning of our history.

— Frederick Lenz

There is nothing you need to do first in order to be enlightened.

— Thaddeus Golas

Life is an endless matrix of existence. And as you experience it in that pure form, that's what we call enlightenment.

— Frederick Lenz

“Perhaps I had inadvertently brushed up against the Buddhist axiom, that enlightenment is the ultimate disappointment.”

— Maggie Nelson

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Power is the big obstacle, or one of them, that you have to overcome and learn to deal with effectively before you…

— Frederick Lenz

“The bottom line remains the same: you’re either awake or you’re not.One day, there it is. Nothing. No more enemies, no more…

— Jed McKenna

I momentarily but genuinely believed that Barack Obama was the answer not only to our nation's depressing politics but to the question…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

We can't say what enlightenment is, we can't say what it isn't, because these are words and words have nothing to do…

— Frederick Lenz

You're thinking that you shouldn't have sex because you're celibate. So you just keep thinking about sex instead of enlightenment.

— Frederick Lenz

The advanced education in Tantra obviously has to do with the entrance into samadhi, the negation of the self. That is what…

— Frederick Lenz

I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and…

— Herbie Hancock

“Hinduism cannot live without Buddhism, nor Buddhism without Hinduism. Then realise what the separation has shown to us, that the Buddhists cannot…

— Swami Vivekananda

Whenever learners or those beyond learning awaken the mind, for the first time they plant one buddha-nature. Working with the four elements…

— Dogen

I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to…

— Patrick Duffy

Enlightenment, or true happiness, is not a transcendental state. It is a condition of broad wisdom, boundless energy, and good fortune wherein…

— Josei Toda

There is no holy life. There is no war between good and evil. There is no sin and no redemption. None of…

— Deepak Chopra

“Suffering offers a path to awareness. Awareness allows us to be truly born. When one is born, one is able to then…

— VD

“By suffering, one is shown the path to awareness. Along that path is where one discovers that he is truly born. Once…

— VD

“As I stumbled into confusion about what was real and what was not, the strangest thing happened: The world disintegrated. Reality collapsed,…

— Stefan Emunds

Liberals have a set of folk theories that are fallacious. One of them comes from the Enlightenment, and the assumption is that…

— George Lakoff

“Those who are actively seeking enlightenment will not find it because the act of looking for it is the distraction from it.”

— Enza Vita

Your very own sister may take your husband away and your husband may be the ticket for economic survival.

— Frederick Lenz

“Whoever said ignorance is bliss has never known the joy of enlightenment.”

— Denise Camille Frye

At the beginning and the middle and the end of all things, there is only the perfection of enlightenment that is nirvana.

— Frederick Lenz

Something in you wants to go beyond, wants to be free from this endless round of perception. Enlightenment is that.

— Frederick Lenz

“Of course balance is the key to enlightenment and no one can be perfect all the time.”

— Lee Vickers

“You can lead an idiot to enlightenment but you can't make him think.”

— Anthony Foster

An enlightened person does not ignore things and does not stick to things, not even to the truth.

— Shunryu Suzuki

Krishna once said to Arjuna: Consider the past and future with an equal mind, and pass the peanut M&M's.

— Frederick Lenz

In Buddhism, you have to believe in yourself. You don't believe something external guides your life. You do it yourself.

— Roberto Baggio

Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness.

— Anonymous

To be completely enlightened means that you're a Buddha.I don't speak of enlightenment.

— Tenzin Palmo

Buddhism is the study of changing who we are, modifying or perhaps totally restructuring ourselves as perceivers.

— Frederick Lenz

Keep in mind, hurting people often hurt other people as a result of their own pain.

— Nour

All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become.

— Gautama Buddha

“Journey to Enlightenment Emotions must come to the surface to release the past that binds.”

— Dana Dason