Enlightenment Quotes

880 quotes by 346 authors

Good humor and enthusiasm should be the sunshine ahead that will keep that shadow behind. — Unknown Author
Logic is the key to an all-inclusive spiritual well-being. — Marlene Dietrich
Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment. — Dogen
Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand. — Alan Cohen
No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can be anything but… — John Dewey
Enlightenment is lightening up. — Mike Myers
Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The joy of suddenly learning a former secret and the joy of suddenly discovering a hitherto unknown truth are the same to me - both… — Paul Halmos
As God talked with Arjuna, so will He talk with you. As He lifted up the spirit and consciousness of Arjuna, so will He uplift… — Paramahansa Yogananda
The Spirit bears witness. Ecstasy and enlightenment, inspiration and intuition are not necessary. Happy is the man who is worthy of these; but woe unto… — Karl Barth
Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat. The… — Mark Twain
The search ends with the realization that there is no such thing as enlightenment. By searching, you want to be free from the self, but… — U.G. Krishnamurti
The curve of life is like the parabola of a projectile which, disturbed from its initial state of rest, rises and then returns to a… — Carl Jung
Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer… — Eric S. Raymond
Since my first discussions of ecological problems with Professor John Day around 1950 and since reading Konrad Lorenz's "King Solomon's Ring," I have become increasingly… — Allan McLeod Cormack
Nothing has to be changed, because all is beautiful - that is enlightenment. All is as it should be, everything is perfect. This is the… — Rajneesh
Enlightenment is finding that there is nothing to find. Enlightenment is to come to know that there is nowhere to go. Enlightenment is the understanding… — Rajneesh
Life is trying to teach us one thing: to see the Eck, Holy Spirit, in the eyes of all we meet. This means that those… — Harold Klemp
Expectations of goals and rewards (such as Enlightenment) are recognized for what they are: last-ditch attempts by the ghostly self to subvert the process to… — Stephen Batchelor
When we wake up from our confused state of mind, that is enlightenment. — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

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