Enlightenment Quotes · Page 27

“(Only in a spontaneous utterance is there real, uncalculated evidence of enlightenment.)”

— Thomas Hoover

Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If there's any possibility for enlightenment, it's right now, not at some future time. Now is the time.

— Pema Chodron

Buddhist teachings are not a religion, they are a science of mind.

— Jack Kornfield

Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.

— Jet Li

I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I'm not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death interests me.

— Joan Baez

To perfect your nature means to let go of this world and place your attention fully in the plane of enlightenment.

— Frederick Lenz

Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment.

— Gautama Buddha

The effort to lift one's self into perfect enlightenment is a profound thing. It has nothing to do with individual will. It's…

— Frederick Lenz

Enlightenment is the culmination of self-knowledge, pure unadulterated knowledge. Not knowledge you can get from reading a book, it comes from perfecting…

— Frederick Lenz

The thing about Buddhism is that it stresses attainment of something ineffable, that is where it differs from other religions in that…

— Frederick Lenz

The root-word "buddha" means to wake up, to know, to understand; and he or she who wakes up and understands is call…

— Nhat Hanh

When you are enlightened and have united your mind with the deepest and most ancient part of the mind of the universe,…

— Frederick Lenz

It is equally easy, initially, for either a man or a woman to attain enlightenment, what we would call liberation or self-realization.

— Frederick Lenz

This is the central idea of the Gita- to be calm and steadfast in all circumstances, with one's body, mind, and soul…

— Swami Vivekananda

Nirvana is the center of things; then there are the outer bandings of attention. The universe is a mind. At the center…

— Frederick Lenz

“Again, ancient Zenists did not claim that there was any mysterious element in their spiritual attainment, as Do-gen says[FN#259] unequivocally respecting his…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“The Buddha isn’t a god or deity to be worshipped. He was a rebel and an overthrower, the destroyer of ignorance, the…

— Noah Levine

Once renunciation and the awakened mind have been fully realized, the way to Buddhahood is clear. Liberation is complete and such liberated…

— Maura O'Halloran

“And yes, given our circumstances, in this post-enlightenment era of post-trust, post-truth, post-rationality, post-honour, and post-chivalry; as meaningless non-entities in a disenchanted…

— H.M. Forester

If the minds of living beings are impure, their land is also impure, but if their minds are pure, so is their…

— Nichiren

[Michael] Chabon, who is himself a brash and playful and ebullient genre-bender, writes about how our idea of what constitutes literary fiction…

— Emily Barton

Once you are enlightened, you don't do wrong things. You don't take to wrong things. Then you start understanding all these prophets,…

— Nirmala Srivastava

“The modern scientist attempts to step outside of himself in order to observe himself, an attempt that is always doomed to failure.…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

“We must empower our weak to be strong, and teach our strong to be compassionate. This will open a door to oneness.”

— Gary Hopkins

Looking for enlightenment is like looking for a flashlight when all you need the flashlight for is to find the flashlight.

— Lew Welch

Attachment is the main thing that is blocking your path towards enlightenment.

— Garchen Rinpoche

Don't worry. These poses have nothing to do with meditation or enlightenment.

— Dharma Mittra

The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.

— Larry Dossey

When you wish to subjugate a people, you have to convince them of their own inherent weakness.

— Frederick Lenz

The limits on your enlightenment come not from the age you stopped going to school but from the age you stopped being…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.

— Anonymous

I have found a much greater appreciation of Buddhism because I couldn't take it for granted here in exile.

— Dalai Lama

“Love and intuition are both the language of the soul. Speak soul.”

— Jodi Livon

“Subject and object are not separate—so-called objective reality is projected by our subjective Consciousness.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

Searching outside of you is Samsara (the world). Searching within you leads to Nirvana.

— Amit Ray

“The circumstances of confusion will be your path to enlightenment' - Thursday Next”

— Jasper Fforde

Zen is a very quick path to enlightenment and development of the mind and all its facilities.

— Frederick Lenz

“The trying to do something is in itself enlightenment. When we are in difficulty or distress, there we have enlightenment.”

— Shunryu Suzuki

Purity is the ability to see dharma in its manifold forms in any plane or loka.

— Frederick Lenz