Enlightenment Quotes

880 Enlightenment quotes by 346 unique authors

If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is 'the quiet acceptance of what is'. — Wayne Dyer
I simply go with what works. And what works is the healthy skepticism embodied in the scientific method. Believe me, if the Bible had ever… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Unity consciousness is a state of enlightenment where we pierce the mask of illusion which creates separation and fragmentation. Behind the appearance of separation is… — Deepak Chopra
Don't worry. These poses have nothing to do with meditation or enlightenment. — Dharma Mittra
Enlightenment is intimacy with all things. — Dogen
Compassion has been advocated by all the great faiths because it has been found to be the safest and surest means of attaining enlightenment. It… — Karen Armstrong
If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose. — Jack Handey
This is what enlightenment is all about - a deep understanding that there is no problem. Then, with no problem to solve, what will you… — Rajneesh
Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love. — M. Scott Peck
When we recognize that the seemingly object nature of reality is nothing different than the subject nature of mind, which is rigpa, it is called… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
Anything that is created must sooner or later die. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it. — Chogyam Trungpa
By renouncing samsara, we renounce our habitual grasping, unhappy minds. And by renouncing samsara, we embrace our potential for enlightenment. — Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
When? At this time, while you have all the opportunities, if you do not do your best to achieve the pure, stainless path to enlightenment… — Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
Hackerspaces are the digital-age equivalent of English Enlightenment coffee houses. They are places open to all, indifferent to social status, and where ideas and knowledge… — Heather Brooke
My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also. — Kailash Kher
The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. — Umberto Eco
I do think one success of Northern Europe, which the United States came from, was its willingness to accept innovation in business practices like Adam… — James D. Watson
I think it may not be a coincidence that the rise of printing and book publication and literacy and the phenomenon of best sellers all… — Steven Pinker
As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I… — Robert Darnton
While confronting the problems of the present, I often find myself thinking back to the world of books as it was experienced by the Founding… — Robert Darnton
Movies can be instruments of enlightenment. — Marianne Williamson
With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist… — Noam Chomsky
Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment. — Noam Chomsky
Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and that the function… — Eric Kandel
I had been taught that the separation between religion and politics happened in the Enlightenment. But there were people who tried to create a secular… — Elaine Pagels

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