“The path to enlightenment, to find out who you truly are, has to be taken alone.” — Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla Copy Share Image
“Don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-already-are.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can't buy enlightenment, but you can hire a mirror so you can watch it happen. — Alek Wek Copy Share Image
Even though it's not perceivable to the mind or senses, it's there and enlightenment is absolute freedom. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If even one woman in the West were to become enlightened, it would change karmas on this planet. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Madness is not enlightenment, but the search for enlightenment is often mistaken for madness. — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
The family gives you ambition, and ambition is one of the hindrances for enlightenment. It gives you desires, it gives you a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The sexual energies returned, when they're not evolved, are still linked with violence and the fear of power - the fear of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is freedom, the thought of enlightenment is prison. The truth exists in the moment. If we´re anywhere else, seeking something outside… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
If you've made a lot of negative seeds, and not a lot of positive seeds, even though you meet with the dharma,… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
If there was any teacher in the world who insisted upon the inexorable law of cause and effect, it was Gautam, and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“It’s very simple: If Buddhism is about awakening, people should be waking up. If it’s not about awakening, they should change the… — Jed McKenna Copy Share Image
“These new gurus even wrote text about what it was they were teaching, but the true meaning, power and role of the… — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is already there inside us and all things. All we have to do is get something out of the way that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Retreating from the world will not liberate you. Happiness is not found in a secluded forest hut or isolated cave. Enlightenment comes… — Guo Jun Copy Share Image
Puritanism prolonged in America the medieval Christian view of the world and of human destiny. It taught men to distrust their natural… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
You will have to learn ways of relaxing in the present. Enlightenment is not an effort to achieve something. It is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Tapascharya, spiritual practice means: accepting the truth that you are alone; that there is no way one can have a friend, a… — Osho Copy Share Image
[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Followers of the Way [of Chán], if you want to get the kind of understanding that accords with the Dharma, never be… — Linji Yixuan Copy Share Image
“However, one should be equally aware that, within the entirety of the Buddha's teachings of expedient and definitive meaning in his three… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“Always remember that you are the observer and not the doer. Do not take life to be anything more than acting. Don’t… — Osho Copy Share Image
“The Encyclopedia--the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment...” — Peter Prange Copy Share Image
The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest. — Buddha Copy Share Image
Men have reacted very negatively to the power that is inherent in women. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The Enlightenment taught that observation unrecorded was knowledge lost.” — Stephen E. Ambrose Copy Share Image
The Buddha himself said, "I still use conceptual thinking, but I'm not formed by it." And that's the Buddha. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is the ability to freely transact within the ten thousand states of mind without a continuous self or awareness — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“At some magical instant you realize a deep Harmony with the universe. Enlightenment is that harmony.” — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
“The purpose of life is to reach a point where you can say 'yes' to all of it.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s something which can’t be defined,” Enso Roshi says. “Maybe it’s a question, to be lived.” — T. Scott McLeod Copy Share Image
“The light is supposed to enter through your breaks, wounds, and cracks.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
A man searching for enlightenment is like a man sitting on an Ass in search of an Ass — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
When you dive into the reality and find the ultimate truth;then the enlightenment happens. — Bibeka Copy Share Image
It is not after we understand the truth that we attain enlightenment. To realize the truth is to live - to exist… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Transforming the human experience of aging into spiritual enlightenment in the service of peace on Earth.” — John C. Robinson Copy Share Image
The second attention is the occult side of the being. It is the ability to manipulate others, be it for good or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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