Enlightenment Quotes · Page 35

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

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

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

— Kim Hee-jin

“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

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

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

“We Vietnamese have two philosophies to sustain us. The Confucian tells us how to behave when fate grants us peace and order.…

— Denis Johnson

“We often try to force the experience we want to have, instead of allowing the experience we were meant to have, and…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

Sometimes when you are with an enlightened teacher, you will feel both pleasant and unpleasant things magnified. That happens when you meditate…

— Frederick Lenz

Buddhism is really, one of its main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness.

— Goldie Hawn

On your journey, remember there is no end. That is true knowledge. There is no final knowledge. There is no final enlightenment,…

— Frederick Lenz

“4. Mahayana Doctrine of the Nihilists. This doctrine disproves (both) the Mahayana and the Hinayana doctrines above mentioned that adhere to Dharma-laksana,…

— Kaiten Nukariya

There is a flaw with words, they always force us to feel enlightened, but when we turn around to face the world…

— Carlos Castaneda

The world of enlightenment doesn't know of its own existence. We're beyond both the knower and known. There's no conceptual identity whatsoever.

— Frederick Lenz

Most of the founding fathers, sympathetic with and influenced by the European Enlightenment, saw religion - natural religion, that is - as…

— Edwin Gaustad

I simply go with what works. And what works is the healthy skepticism embodied in the scientific method. Believe me, if the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“There are those who say that spiritual enlightenment is achieved through the denial of oneself; you must deny yourself many things, go…

— C. JoyBell C

“I heard a story once in the Orient about two architects who went to see the Buddha. They had run out of…

— Colin Higgins

“Lord Buddha never put much emphasis on belief. Instead, he exhorted us to investigate and try to understand the reality of our…

— Thubten Yeshe

“***Not Religious October 31, 2017 I am an ordained Lama of the Celtic Buddhist lineage, a multi-decade student of many great Tibetan…

— Doug "Ten" Rose

“Buddha-nature may be compared with the sun, and individual mind with the sky. Then an Enlightened mind is like the sky in…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“All in all, The Sutra of the Teaching ofAksayamati lists eight criteria that distinguish expedient and definitive meaning: i) The expedient meaning…

— Karl Brunnholzl

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

— Bhikkhu Bodhi

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

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Immanuel Kant

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

— Anthony de Mello

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

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

— Shunryu Suzuki

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

— Akemi G

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

— Pema Chodron

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

— Tenzin Palmo

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Toba Beta

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