Enlightenment Quotes · Page 23

If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose.

— Jack Handey

The Enlightenment ideal, which all universities claim to endorse, is that everyone should think for themselves.

— George Monbiot

To be enlightened is to know that heaven is not "coming." Heaven is here.

— Joan D. Chittister

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

— Dogen

“We enter into paradise when, in contemplation, we enter into awareness of the Overself.”

— Paul Brunton

“Choose the Path to Enlightenment over the path of least resistance”

— Brian Coletta

A burrito is a delicious food item that breaks down all social barriers and leads to temporary spiritual enlightenment.

— Lisi Harrison

One of Buddhism’s main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness.

— Goldie Hawn

You must learn to meditate and stop your thoughts. You must overcome all egotism and selfishness by serving others. You must cleanse…

— Frederick Lenz

“Buddha was once asked to describe the essence of his teachings," Rinpoche said. "Do you know what he replied? 'Abandon harmfulness. Cultivate…

— David Michie

When I was 18 I read a book about Buddhism and, before I was halfway through it I said to my mother,…

— Tenzin Palmo

The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to…

— Salman Rushdie

“Enlightenment ideas gave legitimacy to this long-held racist “partiality,” the connection between lightness and Whiteness and reason, on the one hand, and…

— Ibram X. Kendi

When you visit the Zen Monasteries, one of the first things required is that you bring a donation. They have to pay…

— Frederick Lenz

There's a source, there's a perennial source from which all things come forth. We call it the Godhead, Nirvana, the Tao, enlightenment.…

— Frederick Lenz

“The greatest asset to the human experience is the ability to navigate one’s emotions. By practicing the skill of detachment, one can…

— Gary Hopkins

“The public education system did not promote the enlightenment of the individual, but rather suppressed critical thought and neurodiversity. It produced preformatted,…

— Rajinder Jhol

The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition…

— Thomas Ligotti

The problem has to be answered by means of art, because you can't blast them with bliss. Tat freaks them out even…

— Robert Thurman

How could being the entire cosmos and all of its wonder and all of its stages and cycles, and yet being that…

— Frederick Lenz

“This view was prevalent in Japan in the sixth century A.D., when Buddhism first reached that country. The Government, being in doubt…

— Bertrand Russell

“You cannot be aware of yourself, for you are awareness itself. How can a witness witness itself? That is like trying to…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

“the Mahayanist's aim of life is to bring out man's inborn light of Buddha-nature to illumine the world, to realize the universal…

— Kaiten Nukariya

I reject karma and rebirth not only because I find them unintelligible, but because I believe they obscure and distort what the…

— Stephen Batchelor

“Knowledge flourishes where words of eminent men empower the cognition of young minds with enlightenment.”

— Stephen TSJ

The Buddha is found in other people - even the ones we do not like very much.

— Francis Harold Cook

“The greatest book is one written by your pen, but not exactly from your mind.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Buddhism resonated very powerfully with a lot of my preoccupations.

— Pankaj Mishra

“Give yourself a break from any holy book; and start looking at others as you want to be looked at.”

— Gloria D. Gonsalves

“When you are always ready for the worst, then the worst is likely to show up”

— Gary Hopkins

“The teaching of the Buddha is called the Dhamma. He did not teach Buddhism, any more than Jesus taught Christianity.”

— Ayya Khema

Dharma is one and one only. Ahimsa means moksha, and moksha is the realization of Truth.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Buddhism helps me to have a healthy relationship with my body and spirit.

— Anthony Kiedis

No single step in the persuit of enlightenment should ever be considered sacred; only the search was.

— Ann Druyan

“A revolution in the eyes of man carries purpose. A revolution in the eyes of the awakened carries bliss.”

— Sal Martinez

“That (truth) which cannot be lived in daily life, cannot be true.”

— Satish Tripathi

Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand.

— Alan Cohen

“There is an enlightened way to flow with, in, and through conflict.”

— Bryant McGill

Its not my job to shove enlightenment up people's asses, but some days I get stuck volunteering to do it.

— Rock Cowles

“If all it took to become enlightened were to sit and meditate, then all frogs would be Buddhas.”

— Sengai