Enlightenment Quotes · Page 30

There are certain people who people think are enlightened. The problem with the word enlightenment is what you mean by it.

— Tenzin Palmo

“You have eternity to experience your awakened self. So why not enjoy the dream while you’re in it, even if it is…

— Teresa Tsalaky

“If you are on the Path, and see the Buddha walking toward you, kill him.”

— Allen Greenfield

Enlightenment is not a finite state. It's not something that you just do and it's done. It goes on forever.

— Frederick Lenz

If there isn't an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment.

— Eckhart Tolle

Don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-al ready-are.

— Dalai Lama

“If you want special illumination, look upon the human face: See clearly within laughter the Essence of Ultimate Truth.”

— Idries Shah

“Buddhism, with its non-theistic framework, grounds its ethics, not on the notion of obedience, but on that of harmony.”

— Bhikkhu Bodhi

The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out…

— Ken Wilber

“When the charging (of karma) stops, the binding of new 'sansar' (worldly life) ends. The state that 'I am the doer' never…

— Dada Bhagwan

There's a path in enlightenment called the path of negation where we intentionally throw ourselves into experiences that are extremely transient. In…

— Frederick Lenz

There is no whit less enlightenment under the tree by your street than there was under the Buddha's bo tree. I invite…

— Annie Dillard

You can't teach someone to be enlightened. It's something you have to go and do. You can't teach someone to meditate well.…

— Frederick Lenz

Dualistic doctrines that regard mind and body as separate entities do not provide much enlightenment on the nature of the disembodied mental…

— Albert Bandura

“And is it only a dream, that in the end man will find his joy in deeds of enlightenment and mercy alone,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“[The Buddha] is not dividing himself into worthy and unworthy pieces; he is one being, indivisible, immune from the tendency to double…

— Mark Epstein

“...one had to expect very little—almost nothing—from life, Aaron knew, one had to be grateful, not always trying to seize the days…

— Tao Lin

“Man does not live by bread alone. I have known millionaires starving for lack of the nutriment which alone can sustain all…

— Andrew Carnegie

“14. Zen and Nirvana. The beatitude of Zen is Nirvana, not in the Hinayanistic sense of the term, but in the sense…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“The people who are most discouraged and made despondent by the barbarity and stupidity of human behaviour at this time are those…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

You don't want to know the Truth, you want to know the truth as you understand it. This is the greatest barrier…

— Neale Donald Walsch

“He’d dive deeper and deeper into the calming depths of the sea, safe from the storms on the surface. And when he…

— Jasun Ether

Two hundred years ago the forces of freedom challenged this idea. The children of the new enlightenment rose up to defy the…

— Sherwin Wine

It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when…

— Francis Crick

Anybody or anything can become enlightened because enlightenment is the very nature of existence itself.

— Frederick Lenz

Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed; after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.

— Anthony de Mello

“Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.”

— Immanuel Kant

I personally, only work with people in my business who show excellence. I have a business, the business of enlightenment.

— Frederick Lenz

“Hatred never ceases with hatred, but with love alone is healed.”

— T. Scott McLeod

Since life is but a continuous series of experiences, everything ultimately helps me towards my final enlightenment.

— Sri Chinmoy

Buddhism has helped me understand my defects and has given me the tools to combat them.

— Roberto Baggio

“Buddha is Mind itself. Mind itself is Dharma. Buddha is identical with Dharma. So is Samgha.”

— Kaiten Nukariya

Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want.

— Pema Chodron

“Intelligence says think. Understanding says ponder. Insight says perceive. Enlightenment says overcome.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“They were in a position of total ignorance and people in that position often died without being enlightened.”

— Eoin Colfer

“One should plan for spiritual enlightenment. At least bring a flashlight.”

— Lia Hills

“If somebody asks me what enlightenment is, I say that it is simply recovering conscience.”

— Ilchi Lee

Those who greatly enlighten delusion are buddhas; those who are greatly deluded about enlightenment are sentient beings.

— Kim Hee-jin

Mind, Body, Spirit, Soul. Mind, Body, Spirit, Soul, Raise my vibrations that's my goal.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

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

— Leo Sayer