Courses Quote by Anagarika Govinda

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

— Frederick Lenz

To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from ordinary reality. It is…

— Robert Thurman

People who are enlightened in previous lifetimes have a certain degree of difficulty in regaining their enlightenment. Sometimes it comes in childhood. Sometimes it…

— Frederick Lenz

Very few people become enlightened in any given lifetime. On the planet earth their might be a dozen who are fully enlightened and several…

— Frederick Lenz

To be enlightened is to know oneself and not run away.

— Veronique Vienne

Strictly speaking, "you" cannot become enlightened, because who you take yourself to be is like a ripple in the ocean of consciousness - or…

— Eckhart Tolle

To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain…

— Aldous Huxley

There is enough room in eternity for everyone to be enlightened. We gain or lose nothing by the success of others.

— Frederick Lenz

Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as an enlightened person. There is only enlightened activity.

— Shunryu Suzuki

It is taught, we too can be enlightened, every one of us. We can be completely freed from the bonds of limitation and conditioned…

— Sharon Salzberg

An enlightened person lives in the world, passes through the ten thousand states of mind, but they are not bound by them. They can…

— Frederick Lenz

“At the moment of enlightenment, everything is dropped—body, mind, all states, all things—everything. At that moment, there is no separate entity that can become…

— Enza Vita