Enlightenment Quotes

880 Enlightenment quotes by 346 unique authors

Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is. — Alan Watts
When a fully qualified Mahayana disciple relies completely upon a fully qualified Mahayana Spiritual Guide the attainment of enlightenment is easy. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
I hope you will attain enlightenment. I am here to tell you that you already have! But you don't know... The difference between the Buddha… — Sakyong Mipham
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity...No thing is required for this enlightenment.. .except freedom; and the freedom in question is the least harmful… — Immanuel Kant
There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment. — Jaggi Vasudev
So I cast my lot with Him-not the one who claimed wisdom, Confucius; or the one who claimed enlightenment, Buddha; or the one who claimed… — Norman Geisler
Because clarity and enlightenment are within your own nature, they are regained without moving an inch. — Laozi
Forces of light on earth shall overcome the force of darkness. Complete spiritual enlightenment on earth will occur. — Edgar Cayce
Your enlightenment depends on the company you keep. You do not know the world until you know the men who have possessed it and tried… — Woodrow Wilson
Enlightenment doesn't mean we were never wounded; it means we've found a way to evolve beyond our wounds. Enlightenment isn't idealistic; it's practical. What's idealistic… — Marianne Williamson
Zen Master Dogen has pointed out that anxiety, when accepted, is the driving force to enlightenment in that it lays bare the human dilemma at… — Philip Kapleau
When we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. We wish to hear only of unequivocal… — Carl Jung
Do no harmful actions, do not become attached to the cycle of death and rebirth, show kindness, respect the old and have compassion for the… — Dogen
Even my desire to become free or enlightened is just another craving for fulfillment or completion in the future. So don’t seek to become free… — Eckhart Tolle
An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary. — Adyashanti
Enlightenment is the natural state of consciousness, the innocent state of consciousness, that state which is uncontaminated by the movement of thought, uncontaminated by control… — Adyashanti
The recurrence during the eighteenth century Enlightenment of the aspiration to be the 'Newton of the moral sciences' testifies to the prestige not just of… — Stefan Collini
Martin Swinger is one of those rare singer-songwriters who excels at everything: singing, songwriting, guitar-playing, and being so present with his humor, tenderness, and wild… — Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Enlightenment doesnt occur from sitting around visualizing images of light, but from integrating the darker aspects of the Self into the conscious personality. — Carl Jung
Whoever accepts the higher mission of art and comes nearer and nearer to it through his creative activity, will then go on from art to… — Paul Brunton
The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment. — Chogyam Trungpa
So the single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. — Eckhart Tolle
Our Christian faith - and correlatively, our account of apologetics - is tainted by modernism when we fail to appreciate the effects of sin on… — James K. A. Smith
When we want a cup of tea our main wish is to drink tea, but to fulfill this wish we naturally develop the secondary wish… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
As soon as the mouth is opened, evils spring forth. People either neglect the root and speak of the branches, or neglect the reality of… — Huangbo Xiyun

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