Enlightenment Quotes · Page 43

Similitude of the heart is like that of a telephone operator between man and God.

— Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

The Buddha never taught a sectarian religion; he taught Dhamma - the way to liberation - which is universal.

— S. N. Goenka

“One cannot transcend the body or mind just by repeating the mantra "I am not the body and I am not the…

— Amit Ray

I am who I am who I am who am I Requesting some enlightenment Could I have been anyone other than me?

— Dave Matthews

When women come into their full power, a balance will occur which has not been seen for so long that no one…

— Frederick Lenz

Nirvana is very funny. It's not sincere particularly. It's rather frivolous, actually.

— Frederick Lenz

The Enlightenment is not a nightmare, nor is it something that comes easily to us. It is an aspiration - and a…

— Dale Jamieson

I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'

— Alan Ball

Enlightenment doesnt occur from sitting around visualizing images of light, but from integrating the darker aspects of the Self into the conscious…

— Carl Jung

We need a new imprinting. We need the imprinting of enlightenment, of freedom. That comes through our association with a higher being.…

— Frederick Lenz

Since the Enlightenment, popular religion has rejected the Enlightenment path and transformed itself into a bastion of resistance against reason.

— Allen W. Wood

“Whatever is in your hands, you keep that in perfect condition; then what is beyond you will anyway happen. But people are…

— Sadhguru

“The Ornament of Sutras says: It is said that enlightenment is attained By those nonconceptual bodhisattvas Who regard all that has been…

— Karl Brunnholzl

Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the…

— Emma Goldman

Enlightenment means rising above thought, not falling back to a level below thought, the level of an animal or a plant. In…

— Eckhart Tolle

The idea that reincarnation means all beings eventually reach enlightenment is not true. Life does not have a fixed purpose. It just…

— Frederick Lenz

You must continue to go back to the beginning, to the foundation, and question the foundation. Even once you‘ve reached Samadhi you…

— B.K.S. Iyengar

Greed for enlightenment and immortality is no different than greed for material wealth. It is self-centered and dualistic, and thus an obstacle…

— Laozi

Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept…

— Daisaku Ikeda

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control…

— Anonymous

Although we have no actual written communications from the world of emptiness, we have some hints or suggestions about what is going…

— Shunryu Suzuki

“The extraction of discrete parts of Chöd teachings from their broader philosophical contexts is symptomatic of how Chöd has been incorporated into…

— Michelle Sorensen

You are a Buddha, and so is everyone else. I didn't make that up. It was the Buddha himself who said so.…

— Nhat Hanh

“Buddhism offers a basic challenge to this cultural worldview. The Buddha taught that this human birth is a precious gift because it…

— Tara Brach

To be enlightened means that you really don't change, and yet you're nothing but change.

— Frederick Lenz

The complete teachings of all Buddhas - past, present, and future - are to be found within the essence of every human…

— Huineng

There's this absurd innate need in most men to feel that they're more powerful than women are, which is ridiculous.

— Frederick Lenz

I am a humble adherent of...Enlightenment Rationalist Fundamentalism.

— Ernest Gellner

“Why do 'we' (Enlightened One, Dadabhagwan) not have a single obstacle? Because, 'we' are in completely desire-free state.”

— Dada Bhagwan

It is the way it is. But it is not the way it appears to be. Enlightenment.

— Frederick Lenz

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

— Nhat Hanh

You are all Buddhas. There is nothing you need to achieve. Just open your eyes.

— Gautama Buddha

To be enlightened doesn't mean you end up stupefied and unable to function.

— Tenzin Palmo

Enlightenment simply means that you've run out of questions, and that the answers don't matter anymore.

— Frederick Lenz

You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake.

— Adyashanti

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.

— Anthony de Mello

Instant enlightenment is to give all your happiness away to others.

— David Deida

“It doesn't matter how you conceive of divinity. It only matters that you see it in everything, including yourself.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha.

— Bodhidharma

Sometimes I feel like Leonard Cohen when he went off to become a Buddhist.

— Leo Sayer