Enlightenment Quotes · Page 33

The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Twenty or twenty-five years ago, contraception and enlightenment were held to be almost synonymous.”

— George Orwell

“All paths are valid, but in the end you will find that the realization of the ultimate truth is a pathless path.”

— Enza Vita

If you find yourself in some difficulty, step aside, and allow Buddha to take your place. The Buddha is in you.

— Nhat Hanh

Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.

— Dalai Lama

True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

— Voltaire

Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.

— Adyashanti

There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice.

— Dogen

“When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can…

— Pema Chodron

“The Buddha didn’t set out to found a religion or to convert people to a belief – he simply taught a system…

— Anonymous

So in the world of Enlightenment, things are just things, except they're not things. We're in nirvana. There is no debating team.

— Frederick Lenz

“The human condition to ignore or dispel ideas is an admission of fear by oneself and refusing to seek out the phenomena…

— Alastair Agutter

I would encourage you to follow the pathway to enlightenment, to learn to meditate, to practice mindfulness, and not to really care…

— Frederick Lenz

The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath,…

— Dave Mustaine

My work has been in the field of engaged Buddhism. That is my own practice, which began in 1965 that formed the…

— Joan Halifax

They have done this through sexual repression, economic repression, political repression, social repression, ideological repression and spiritual repression.

— Frederick Lenz

Matangi's mantra is aim, which is MIA backwards. She fights for freedom of speech and stands for truth, and lives in the…

— M.I.A

“8. Man is not Good-natured nor Bad-natured, but Buddha-natured. We have had already occasion to observe that Zen teaches Buddha-nature, which all…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“A person whom is dissatisfied with the existing constitution of the self might wish to eradicate the self. A spiritual death can…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“our nature is the mind. and the mind is our nature.this nature is the same as the mind of all buddhas. buddhas…

— bodhidharma

“I'm simply saying that there is a way to be sane. I'm saying that you can get rid of all this insanity…

— Osho

“I am not my mind, because I can observe my thoughts. So the observer is different from the observed – I am…

— Osho

In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment. If the process were otherwise, the awakened state of mind would…

— Chogyam Trungpa

The religious wars showed that the Christian faith was no longer Europe's unifying force. A new common ground was needed, and it…

— Walter Kasper

How do you become enlightened? I don't know: Luck, karma, skill, friends in high places, friends in low places.

— Frederick Lenz

“If the earth needs night as well as day, wouldn't it follow that the soul requires endarkenment to balance enlightenment?”

— Tom Robbins

One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.

— Herbie Hancock

“And I envy you. You have the one thing that matters. You have all your discoveries before you.”

— John Fowles

“It’s a tiresome proposition, having to take up the work of the Enlightenment all over again, but it’s happened on your watch.”

— Rebecca Goldstein

“Enlightenment seems paradoxical but all it needs is compassion”

— Pd

When the entire population of the world attains enlightenment, I'll retire and play golf every day.

— Jaggi Vasudev

I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really.

— David Hockney

Forever is not an idea or a concept, it is reality. All of the things here come from forever. We call forever…

— Frederick Lenz

“I'm an old-fashioned guy. I believe in the Enlightenment, and reason, and logic, and you know, facts.”

— Barack Obama

Sex does drain a certain amount of your occult energy. But that really has nothing to do with enlightenment.

— Frederick Lenz

The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.

— Vic Braden

“Change happens for you the moment you want something more than you fear it.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

“Enlightenment, broadly construed, is to be undeluded about how the world is and how best to live.”

— Thomas W. Clark

“No matter how strange things get, know that with every breath, you are becoming that which you have always been.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Sex is a game, a weapon, a toy, a joy, a trance, an enlightenment, a loss, a hope.

— Sallie Tisdale