Enlightenment Quotes · Page 31

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

— Bodhidharma

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

— Adyashanti

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

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

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

— David Deida

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

— Anthony de Mello

“Your Soul is your ultimate guidance system. You can think of your Soul as the compass, map, and destination all in one.”

— Aletheia Luna

The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.

— Sri Aurobindo

“Hadn't another wise man, the Buddha himself, warned about the evils of attachment?”

— Manil Suri

“The calligraphy reads, “Pointing directly at your own heart, you find Buddha.” Listening to talks about the dharma, or the teachings of…

— Pema Chödrön

Buddhism is a path of supreme optimism, for one of its basic tenets is that no human life or experience is to…

— Taitetsu Unno

I am a liberated teacher. A person who meditates with me, even though they may be thousands of miles away, will draw…

— Frederick Lenz

“I now understand why my guru told me not to read other commentaries onthe Bhagavad Gita. He didn't want my mind influenced…

— Paramhansa Yogananda

Everyone should not be ordained, but for those who really feel that the only thing that matters in this world is the…

— Tenzin Palmo

“Meditation is an excellent habit and tool for transformation, however your ‘practice’ should eventually evolve into your natural primary state of being.”

— Gary Hopkins

While 'Buddhism' suggests another belief system, 'dharma practice' suggests a course of action. The four ennobling truths are not propositions to believe;…

— Stephen Batchelor

“But I wish to be enlightened.' 'Let me caution you against it.' 'Is enlightenment on the subject, then, so terrible?' 'Yes, indeed.'…

— Thomas Hardy

Do no harmful actions, do not become attached to the cycle of death and rebirth, show kindness, respect the old and have…

— Dogen

“The first paradox of Illuminism, then, was that it was a network that craved an elaborate hierarchical structure, even as it inveighed…

— Niall Ferguson

Only Zorbas become Buddhas - and Buddha was never a monk, A monk is one who has never been a Zorba and…

— Rajneesh

“According to Kant, the motto of this new era, which came to be known as the Enlightenment, was “Dare to know!”—Sapere aude!…

— Phyllis Goldstein

The search ends with the realization that there is no such thing as enlightenment. By searching, you want to be free from…

— U.G. Krishnamurti

...I am afraid that education is conceived more in terms of indoctrination by most school officials than in terms of enlightenment. My…

— Bertrand Russell

Thus all things are subject to death, sorrow and suffering. I became aware that I too was of the same nature, the…

— Gautama Buddha

“Listen! Here’s all you need to know to become enlightened: Sit down, shut up, and ask yourself what’s true until you know.…

— Jed McKenna

In this world, there is a fine line between enlightenment and brain damage.

— Neal Shusterman

Enlightenment, and the death which comes before it, is the primary business of Varanasi.

— Tahir Shah

The Buddha taught complete honesty, with the extra instruction that everything a person says should be truthful and helpful.

— Sylvia Boorstein

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.

— Bodhidharma

Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

— Huineng

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

— Frederick Lenz

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

— 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

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

— Nhat Hanh

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

— Gautama Buddha

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