Enlightenment Quotes

880 Enlightenment quotes by 346 unique authors

It is called enlightenment, nirvana, God, truth, call it what you will. There is no activity other than the eternal activities of the universe, perfect… — Frederick Lenz
Light by its very nature is endless. Therefore you can never say you've had the ultimate experience in light - it goes on forever. — Frederick Lenz
Once you have mastered the ten thousand states of mind, it's paranirvana, the absorption into the stillness forever. — Frederick Lenz
Enlightenment doesn't occur by accident. It is a deliberate decision that someone makes again and again. It is something you grow into and develop in. — Frederick Lenz
Nirvana is a step beyond. You dissolve into the universe. The universe dissolves into you until there is no longer a difference. There is no… — Frederick Lenz
There is no movement in Nirvana. There is no sameness. And one does not consider it to be timeless because one is not one. It… — Frederick Lenz
We've decided what we are. That's the dream. When the dream fades, it's not that we don't exist. How could we not exist since we… — Frederick Lenz
We erase ourselves; we go away. But we don't really go away, and we don't really erase ourselves, since we were never there to begin… — Frederick Lenz
Enlightenment does not put an end to awareness. It puts an end to limited awareness. It doesn't necessarily put an end to incarnation. It puts… — Frederick Lenz
Enlightenment doesn't simply mean being in heavenly states of mind. It doesn't mean being a saint. — Frederick Lenz
Enlightenment doesn't mean you know anything. It doesn't mean you don't know anything. It means that you've returned to the source, consciously. — Frederick Lenz
Enlightenment means that you've become a sophisticated perceiver, without letting anyone know that you're sophisticated. — Frederick Lenz
Enlightenment simply means that you've run out of questions, and that the answers don't matter anymore. — Frederick Lenz
Enlightenment means that you're in love with all of life, with not only immortality but mortality. — Frederick Lenz
Enlightenment means that you're living fully, and it means that you die fully. And then you go beyond life and death completely, everything, nothing, all,… — Frederick Lenz
It is possible to move to an enlightened state of mind from a lower bardo or level of awareness. It can happen, but it is… — Frederick Lenz
The idea that reincarnation means all beings eventually reach enlightenment is not true. Life does not have a fixed purpose. It just is. — Frederick Lenz
Nirvana is very funny. It's not sincere particularly. It's rather frivolous, actually. — Frederick Lenz
Awareness is wakefulness. Wakefulness is consciousness. Consciousness is limitless awareness. — Frederick Lenz
Enlightenment has nothing to do with physical knowledge. It is the experience of existence. Existence is infinite. There are countless universes and creations taking place… — Frederick Lenz
If you are liberated then you can be in the crowd and there is no crowd. You can be surrounded by the world and their… — Frederick Lenz
We have ideas of God and nirvana or truth or enlightenment. These ideas will go away in nirvana because the suffusion is so complete and… — Frederick Lenz
From the point of view of enlightenment, none of this has ever even been. All time and space, all the conditions that are apparent in… — Frederick Lenz
I have not in this lifetime yet met one person who earnestly seeks enlightenment in the West. Not one person. — Frederick Lenz
A better name for nirvana might be endless love. Love not even in the sense that we see it if we're watching the romantic movie,… — Frederick Lenz

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