Enlightenment Quotes

880 Enlightenment quotes by 346 unique authors

To an Earthkeeper, love is not a feeling or something your barter with. Love is the essence of who you are, and it radiates from… — Alberto Villoldo
Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty. — Bruce Lee
The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life. For it is only through meditation that you… — Sogyal Rinpoche
You are here for no other purpose than to realize your inner divinity and manifest your inner enlightenment. — Morihei Ueshiba
The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all. — Zhuangzi
The person who says, 'I'm enlightened' probably isn't. — Ram Dass
We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish. — Walter Savage Landor
Enlightenment is "being," and it grows; it's end is serenity. — William Gibson
Words are a distraction to enlightenment. Getting rid of conceptual thinking means enlightenment. — Ramesh S Balsekar
Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility. — Sharon M. Draper
Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless. — John Stott
You... are now servants to the ear that needs quiet solace, and the eye that needs the consolation of beauty, servants to the mind that… — Joyce DiDonato
The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity. — Deepak Chopra
You can't buy enlightenment, but you can hire a mirror so you can watch it happen. — Alek Wek
Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are. And listen to the wind singing in your veins. — John Welwood
It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the… — Adyashanti
Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It is the actualization… — Dogen
Life is not about focusing on the obstacles. It's about how you handle them, and whether you get enlightenment or levity from the way you… — Drew Barrymore
Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the way of Glass… — Mark Twain
Your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power… — Marcus Aurelius
There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice. — Dogen
The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your… — Eckhart Tolle
True enlightenment is nothing but the nature of one's own self being fully realized. — Dalai Lama
I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment. — Gautama Buddha
If you have a powerful enlightenment experience, do not try to hold on to it, for to do so will take you out of the… — Leonard Jacobson

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