Enlightenment Quotes

880 Enlightenment quotes by 346 unique authors

To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment. — Dogen
Enlightenment is always through surrender, but surrender is achieved through intelligence. Only idiots cannot surrender. To surrender you need great intelligence. To see the point… — Rajneesh
Art is a necessity, an essential part of our enlightenment process. — Ken Danby
Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to… — Henry Steele Commager
Why write a book on uncovering past lives? Because the benefits for personal empowerment, healing, and enlightenment are tremendous. — Ted Andrews
Mysticism is: a. An advanced state of inner enlightenment. b. Union with Reality. c. A state of genuinely satisfying success. d. Insight into an entirely… — Vernon Howard
[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken… — H. L. Mencken
To limit yourself to a label of "alcoholic" is masochistic and false if you have awakened a deeper spiritual identity within and have come to… — Deepak Chopra
That's the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being. — Rajneesh
Witnessing can be called the seed and enlightenment can be called the flowers. But begin from witnessing, and then it starts growing. Go on nourishing… — Rajneesh
The family gives you ambition, and ambition is one of the hindrances for enlightenment. It gives you desires, it gives you a longing to be… — Rajneesh
Enlightenment is choicelessness. But don`t misunderstand me. Before that, you will have to move very cautiously, choosing the right against the wrong, choosing the truer… — Rajneesh
You will have to learn ways of relaxing in the present. Enlightenment is not an effort to achieve something. It is a state of effortlessness.… — Rajneesh
When Zen masters say `effortlessness` they are referring to the state when your enlightenment is well rooted. Now there is no need of any effort;… — Rajneesh
Godliness is the fragrance of the man who has attained enlightenment. — Rajneesh
Enlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave realizes it is water. At that moment, all fear of death disappears. — Nhat Hanh
When this awareness grows, dreaming stops, by and by. When this awareness grows, the wheel moves slower and slower, because there is no point. You… — Rajneesh
A woman should keep her separateness, should save all her feminine qualities and purify them. In this way she is going, according to her nature,… — Rajneesh
The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation. — Alan Cohen
It's one thing to have the attitude of enlightenment and another thing to act in an enlightened way, which is conduct or activity... — Sakyong Mipham
One only passes from the darkness of ignorance to the enlightenment of science if one re-reads with ever-increasing love the works of the ancients. Let… — Unknown Author
Life is an endless, truly endless struggle. There's no time when we're going to arrive at a plateau where the whole thing gets sorted. It's… — Arthur Miller
Anything that really frightens you may contain a clue to enlightenment. It may indicate to you how deeply you are attached to structure, whether mental,… — Thaddeus Golas
Enlightenment is not an attainment; it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes. If a blind man realizes that… — Dan Millman
Go beyond reason to love - it is safe. It is the only safety. Love all you can, and when you are ready all will… — Thaddeus Golas

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