Enlightenment Quotes · Page 29

“Enlightenment is coming out from the fear mode, victim mode and guilt mode of living to the mode of empowerment.”

— Amit Ray

There are two obstacles to enlightenment: 1. Thinking you know. 2 Thinking you don't know.

— Gautama Buddha

The Enlightenment needs more shadow; the Romantic Movement less.

— Mason Cooley

Zen students see themselves as athletes. Their competitive sport is enlightenment; only with enlightenment do we compete.

— Frederick Lenz

“Actual freedom has not increased in proportion to man's awareness of it.”

— Albert Camus

The goal of society in general is to succeed in the world, whereas the goal of enlightenment is to transcend beyond it.

— David Hawkins

Innumerable Buddhas Enlightened... innumerable Christs crucified... always the same Christ, the same Buddha!

— Frederick Franck

Enlightenment is a journey. It is a journey that is made alone. It is a journey that is made with a teacher.

— Frederick Lenz

“One day, soon after the Buddha’s enlightenment, a man saw the Buddha walking toward him. The man had not heard of the…

— Steve Hagen

I can understand pathways to enlightenment where people shun certain aspects of the sensual world because they feel that these aspects are…

— Frederick Lenz

The word Buddha comes from the Sanskrit word Budh, meaning, to be awake. So Buddha is not a name and ultimately not…

— Eckhart Tolle

“It [enlightenment] has not come to you by means of teaching! And-thus is my thought, oh exalted one,-nobody will obtain salvation by…

— Hermann Hesse

Whether a Buddha comes into the world or not, the nature of things is still the nature of things. The Buddha is…

— Tsoknyi Rinpoche

Nirvana isn't a physical place. It is not like going to heaven. It just means no more individualized awareness, no aggregate body…

— Frederick Lenz

“We are so accustomed to classifying judgments, arguments and deeds in terms of morality that we forget how relatively new the notion…

— Alasdair C. MacIntyre

Non-violence is the essence of the entire Buddha's teaching, and the practice of non-violence is the entire essence of the practice of…

— Lobsang Tenzin

Adam Smith is an egalitarian, he believed in equality of outcome, not opportunity. He is an enlightenment figure, pre-capitalist. He says, suppose…

— Noam Chomsky

“There is beauty all around us, and the light finds us when we realize, we are all part of that beauty and…

— Tom Althouse

Having no background in philosophic thought and ignorant of the reasons supporting their faith, they experience great uneasiness when someone questions their…

— Thubten Yeshe

“Gnan (knowledge) of every living being of the entire world exists in a Soul. However, only the Gnan that is able to…

— Dada Bhagwan

“These classes, according to the degree of enlightenment at which they have arrived, may propose to themselves two very different ends, when…

— Bastiat, Frederick

“The Buddha grew up in a well-to-do family of warriors and nobles. although there were some fucked up moments, his childhood was…

— VD

“The good men or women who keep, read, recite, expound and copy even a phrase of the Sūtra of the Lotus Flower…

— Shinkyo Warner

“…When the secret is discovered, when the Truth is seen, all the forces which feverishly produce the continuity of samsara in illusion…

— Walpola Rahula

“Samsara is one flower. Nirvana is another flower. Enlightenment happens when both the flowers blooms.”

— Amit Ray

Through meditative techniques, one can free the mind of delusions and attain what we call enlightenment.

— Dalai Lama

Once you have mastered the ten thousand states of mind, it's paranirvana, the absorption into the stillness forever.

— Frederick Lenz

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

— Marianne Williamson

“When asked to sum up the Buddha’s teachings in one phrase, Suzuki Roshi said, “Everything changes.”

— Benjamin Riggs

You have to come to the world of enlightenment with open hands, not clinched fists, without an agenda.

— Frederick Lenz

“When the world is filled with evil, all mishaps, all difficulties, should be transformed into the path of enlightenment.”

— Pema Chödrön

Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment.

— Marisha Pessl

The kingdom of God is just behind the darkness of closed eyes, and the first gate that opens to it is your…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

All disease and aging occurs as the subtle physical body breaks down.

— Frederick Lenz

“Sometimes it's good to let people swim in ocean of ignorance and let them struggle to the shores of enlightenment.”

— Uzoma Nnadi

“Enlightenment is not imagining figures of light, but making the darkness conscious.” — Carl Jung”

— Ken Goldman

“Transformation happens only when you put your total energy into it.”

— Osho

If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.

— Ram Dass

Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color…

— John Lubbock

It can be made only when one recognizes the ground of being itself, when one recognizes directly that One is All.

— Amit Goswami