Enlightenment Quotes · Page 27

Dharma is not upheld by talking about it. Dharma is upheld by living in harmony with it...

— Gautama Buddha

Buddha is in our hearts. Buddha is in our mouths. Buddha is in our daily lives.

— Gautama Buddha

“To Do Today, 1/17/08 1. Sit and think 2. Reach enlightenment 3. Feed the cats”

— Jarod Kintz

“You invoke a new future when you envision your past in the light of your present.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Then there will come a time where, very quickly, a woman will lose what some call her beauty.

— Frederick Lenz

The compassionate actions of a Buddha are essential to reforming and revitalizing society.

— Vinessa Shaw

I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity ... I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can.

— Thomas Merton

Become a Buddha? The mind can't do it. The body can't do it. Only what can't become a Buddha becomes a Buddha.

— Ikkyu

She'll find rapid deterioration, which is particularly noticeable in the skin.This is the sign that the subtle physcial is aging.

— Frederick Lenz

“The path towards living in a spiritual manner begins by eliminating inculcated cultural biases, destroying personal illusions, and gratefully accepting the world…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

When light engages the heart, it causes an illumination of the path, a purification of the consciousness, an enlightenment of the intellect…

— Habib Umar bin Hafiz

There are those who will seek to block you. There are also non-physical forces. To win in the world of enlightenment, it…

— Frederick Lenz

A teacher will have an initial contact at some point with someone. It happens inwardly first. Before you ever meet an advanced…

— Frederick Lenz

If you are going to set out to develop mystical powers to impress your friends and do other things to your enemies,…

— Frederick Lenz

I came to the conclusion that we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better…

— Elon Musk

Protection, as we use the word in Buddhism, is actually wisdom, it's insight. Protection is seeing and knowing deeply that all things…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Someone who begins to develop an interest in the teachings can tend to distance themselves from the reality of material things, as…

— Chögyal Namkhai Norbu

This is our challenge at the beginning of the twenty-first century - we need to find the courage to see our own…

— Andrew Cohen

“Once Seung Sahn Soen-sa and a student of his attended a talk at a Zen center in California. The Dharma teacher spoke…

— Zen Master Seung Sahn

I began researching and writing what I intended as a book-length essay entitled Fascination and Liberation, exploring the question of whether there…

— Quentin S. Crisp

The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is left none over for works of…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

The Buddha is your real body, your original mind. This mind has no form or characteristics, no cause or effect, no tendons…

— Bodhidharma

“The whole world is the same single community; each and everyone learns there's nothing to do. This is the very place to…

— Layman Pang

“Somewhere along the way, there develops within the soul a yearning that can no longer be ignored, a craving for the great…

— Donna Goddard

Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.

— Sharon M. Draper

Until women assume their rightful place on earth there will never be an end to wars, cruelty and oppression.

— Frederick Lenz

“Ignorance is an ugly duckling; enlightenment is a magnificent swan.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Finding the calmness or serenity in oneself effectively diffuses the judgments of others”

— Gary Hopkins

“Being enlightened ironically means realizing that there is no separate entity that can be enlightened or unenlightened.”

— Enza Vita

Enlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave realizes it is water. At that moment, all fear of death disappears.

— Nhat Hanh

[In] the post-Enlightenment world, science [has] taken the place of magic, miracles, and superstition.

— Jonah Goldberg

“Burying oneself in holy books and traditions, doesn't bring holiness, what does is, losing oneself in the service of others.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

— Idries Shah

“Jesus was indoctrinated in the Therapeutae Buddhist Monk tradition.”

— Lee Vickers

“Enlightenment is just great common sense with a really cool name”

— johnjwillard

“If we can’t be ballplayers together, maybe I can start bein’ a Buddhist.”

— David James Duncan

If a man wanted to put the entire universe in his breast, he couldn't do it with his chest stuck out.

— Eiji Yoshikawa

The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.

— Ramana Maharshi

It takes a tremendous amount of merit to meet with the dharma - especially if you have an interest in it.

— Tenzin Palmo

“When one does ‘Everywhere Adjust’, one is said to have completely attained the talk of the Vitrags (The Enlightened Ones).”

— Dada Bhagwan