Enlightenment Quotes · Page 41

Enlightenment is when all hope disappears. Enlightenment is disappearance of hope.

— Rajneesh

How can one become enlightened? One can, because one is enlightened - one just has to recognize the fact.

— Rajneesh

If you want to find Buddha nature, love someone and care for them.

— Dainin Katagiri

For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation?

— John Campbell Shairp

“Ignorance causes pain, but awareness creates happiness. Therefore, look for enlightenment every day.”

— Linda Alfiori

The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity.

— Deepak Chopra

“...spells of incarceration or exile were almost badges of honour for Enlightenment writers.”

— Kate Berridge

There's no right or wrong in the study of enlightenment. There's only experience.

— Frederick Lenz

“Although it is nonreligious and nontheistic, it’s difficult to present Buddhism without sounding theoretical and religious. As”

— Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse

The state of ambiguity - that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you're living through right now - is enlightenment itself.

— Brad Warner

The Buddha's teaching leads us to the realization that we must always strive to harm no sentient being, human or nonhuman, whether…

— Norm Phelps

It is not special to be enlightened, just different. An enlightened person is someone who has dedicated not just this lifetime but…

— Frederick Lenz

“Maximum benefit in harvesting good karma results from a donation that has the greatest influence on world evolution and human development for…

— Master Del Pe

Buddhism suggests there are no elect. Everything rests upon your own self-effort, which is the good news because that means you don't…

— Frederick Lenz

“The path that one person follows is not the correct path for any other person. Each of us must walk his own…

— Wu Wei

Find a teacher who is an integral being, a beacon who extends his light and virtue with equal ease to those who…

— Laozi

“The very way that you think is a crucial component to your overall health and well being. Living towards the negative will…

— Gary Hopkins

In an evolutionary context, the goal of the spiritual life is not peace; it's perpetual development. Evolutionary enlightenment is about the ecstasy…

— Andrew Cohen

There is nothing that does not get easier through cultivation. The buddhas of the past started out as ordinary beings. They were…

— Dalai Lama

“In bidding for popular support and competing with other cults as a parallel religion, the sangha had been losing ground throughout India…

— John Keay

The joke of it all is that you are looking from your true nature right now without knowing it. If you would…

— Adyashanti

I know many Catholic priests and nuns who use the Buddhist teachings to become better Catholics, and Jews who use them to…

— Tenzin Palmo

“If peace comes from seeing the whole, then misery stems from a loss of perspective. We begin so aware and grateful. The…

— Mark Nepo

“You can appreciate your life, even if it is an imperfect situation. Perhaps your apartment is run down and your furniture is…

— Anonymous

Women have allowed you to think that, which is a part of their inaccessibility in using their second attention.

— Frederick Lenz

Enlightenment is just the beginning, later on come other skills . . . patience, a forgiving nature, extreme attention . . . .

— E. J. Gold

The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing…

— Ajahn Chah

Only the rich can achieve enlightenment because the poor are too busy looking for fridge freezers.

— Rajneesh

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

— Laozi

My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.

— Kailash Kher

The word 'guru' is very loaded, so I would never refer to myself that way. I see myself as a teacher.

— Gabrielle Bernstein

One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.

— Paul Theroux

Buddhism is in your heart. Even if you don't have any temple or any monks, you can still be a Buddhist in…

— Nhat Hanh

All beings exist ultimately in a condition of inner enlightenment. Enlightenment is in all things.

— Frederick Lenz

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

— Nhat Hanh

Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.

— Eckhart Tolle

Every day is a new opportunity to work with what you have inside toward enlightenment.

— Pema Chodron

There are, strictly speaking, no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity.

— Shunryu Suzuki

“The soul knows only to love. While the ego criticizes everything, including the ego itself ...”

— Akemi G

Krishna says, fight. He says, go out in the battlefield and kill those people whom it's your job to kill.

— Frederick Lenz