Enlightenment Quotes · Page 29

“There's a thin boundary between the light and dark side. Both are fervent to reign in the space of the other.”

— Gloria D. Gonsalves

Use career to develop yourself. Have fun with it. Dedicate your activities and your career, to eternity, and to enlightenment.

— Frederick Lenz

Enlightenment occurs when someone becomes inspired by information and uses it to enhance their life.

— Aimee Vernon

“We live within the clouds of our minds waiting for the sun to shine with happiness.”

— Anthony T. Hincks

“There is nothing we could add to that which has already been created…perfection.”

— Vivian Amis

Many religions over the years have suggested that when a woman is menstruating, she should be avoided and not touched.

— Frederick Lenz

Three are the peaks that everyone must seek: Achievement, Fulfillment and Enlightenment.

— Anonymous

“If you take society’s definition of knowing oneself, you will become lost in the many translations.”

— Grace Sara

You have to be a warrior in order to become enlightened. If you think it's tough paying the bills, think about being…

— Frederick Lenz

The Bhagavad-Gita is a true scripture of the human race a living creation rather than a book, with a new message for…

— Sri Aurobindo

This question, Is loving your enemy a life practice?, I like that question. It is a life practice, certainly, for everyone. It…

— Robert Thurman

By renouncing samsara, we renounce our habitual grasping, unhappy minds. And by renouncing samsara, we embrace our potential for enlightenment.

— Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete…

— Terence McKenna

Enlightenment occurs when your mind merges with nirvana, with what Tibetans call the Dharmakaya, the clear light of reality, which is the…

— Frederick Lenz

Not a few patients, however, suffering from certain forms of mental disorder, regain a high degree of insight into their mental condition…

— Clifford Whittingham Beers

Nonphysical beings are drawn to enlightened beings. Some come to aid them in there work; some come to interfere. Some just come…

— Frederick Lenz

To limit yourself to a label of "alcoholic" is masochistic and false if you have awakened a deeper spiritual identity within and…

— Deepak Chopra

“Anything worth having doesn’t come easy' is a perception of negativity perpetuated by misery looking for company. Accept nothing but the opposite…

— Gary Hopkins

The more we try and understand enlightenment the more it will elude us. And that's because enlightenment does not come from the…

— Anita Moorjani

“He broke me down past the flesh, past the muscle, past the bone, down to my soul and in a loud provocation,…

— Jay Grewal

The curve of life is like the parabola of a projectile which, disturbed from its initial state of rest, rises and then…

— Carl Jung

“The most fundamental message of Gautama the Buddha is not God, is not soul... it is freedom: freedom absolute, total, unconditional. He…

— Anthony Morganti

Dharma is not about credentials. It's not about how many practices you've done, or how peaceful you can make your mind. It's…

— Reginald Ray

“As matters now stand, a great deal is still lacking in order for men as a whole to… apply [reason] confidently to…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“The Gautama Buddha instructs me to walk away from illness. But he wasn't attached to a drip.”

— Derek Jarman

The byproduct of doing for others is the path to enlightenment and when viewed in hindsight reveals the meaning of life.

— Jordan Blake Michiels

The fundamental goal of Buddhism is the realization of the peace and happiness of humankind.

— Josei Toda

“All these mystics, throughout history, all over the world, they all found their way to enlightenment by physical suffering.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Nobody makes anybody enlightened. Just tell them what you want to say, then let them decide for themselves.”

— Toba Beta

“Helping yourself is common sense, helping others is virtue, helping yourself and others is enlightenment.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?

— Adyashanti

“Whatever has the nature of arising has the nature of ceasing. (The Buddha)”

— Alex Fan Moniz

“The Gita is a commentary on the Upanishads. The Upanishads are the Bible of India.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Akemi G

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

— Shunryu Suzuki

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

— Frederick Lenz

Art is a necessity, an essential part of our enlightenment process.

— Ken Danby

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

— Pema Chodron

“An enlightened thinker does not waste his precious time thinking about what others think of what he thinks.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all

— Benjamin Franklin