Enlightenment Quotes

880 Enlightenment quotes by 346 unique authors

If one is enlightened, one does not perceive life with North, South, East and West. There is no California, there is no New York. In… — Frederick Lenz
Enlightenment just means that you don't have a structural self. It means you've flipped through the gradated realities. Nothing binds, nothing clings to you. You're… — Frederick Lenz
Enlightenment is not a finite state. It's not something that you just do and it's done. It goes on forever. — Frederick Lenz
Buddhists don't feel that enlightenment is particularly unusual. We feel that it's the natural state. Enlightenment simply means perceiving life directly as it is in… — Frederick Lenz
Be enlightened for you, just for you. No one else knows or cares. They crucified Christ, you know. They don't take real well, on this… — Frederick Lenz
The world of enlightenment doesn't know of its own existence. We're beyond both the knower and known. There's no conceptual identity whatsoever. — Frederick Lenz
Nirvana's not like anything you've ever known or experienced because it can't be known or experienced. — Frederick Lenz
Enlightenment is an ocean of awareness that slides through the human part of us and dissolves it, and leaves us forever in eternity. — Frederick Lenz
We can't say what enlightenment is, we can't say what it isn't, because these are words and words have nothing to do with reality. — Frederick Lenz
Words are a human way of trying to describe things. But they're much more of interference than they are a help in the world of… — Frederick Lenz
When I talk about the realm of spirit, happiness, nirvana, enlightenment, I'm not talking about something ideal or imaginary. There are realms of light that… — Frederick Lenz
You see, that's the fun of Buddhism. We do have a wild card in the deck that can't be explained, that changes value continuously, and… — Frederick Lenz
The enlightenment experience is not what you think. How could it be anything that you can configure, anything you can imagine, any way that you… — Frederick Lenz
It's a very complicated matter to become enlightened. If it happens to a person without a teacher in this lifetime, you can bet their boots,… — Frederick Lenz
The dreams of eternity are the states of mind. When we wake up from the dreams there's only enlightenment. There could never be anything else. — Frederick Lenz
Since infinity is by its very nature infinite, then enlightenment by its very nature is infinite, and thus can be experienced in infinite ways, by… — Frederick Lenz
Enlightenment is x-rated, honey; if you haven't checked it out. It's hot, it's vivacious. You're going to take your mind and merge it with the… — Frederick Lenz
Enlightenment is the food that eats you. — Frederick Lenz
Enlightenment means that you're never the same. You move and shift as the quiescent state, in a body or out of it. And since the… — Frederick Lenz
The effort to lift one's self into perfect enlightenment is a profound thing. It has nothing to do with individual will. It's a refraction of… — Frederick Lenz

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