Enlightenment Quotes

880 Enlightenment quotes by 346 unique authors

Be - don't try to become. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance. — Rajneesh
Hip-Hop is my vehicle to scientific and universal enlightenment — Unknown Author
The goal of society in general is to succeed in the world, whereas the goal of enlightenment is to transcend beyond it. — David Hawkins
Aging is like enlightenment at gunpoint. Before I had cancer, I lived my life for my art. After I had cancer, I lived my art… — Anna Halprin
I have made a vow to attain Enlightenment in the female form - no matter how many lifetimes it takes — Tenzin Palmo
Climbing is a heroic liberating act; and height spontaneously symbolizes things of high value, be it in the value of worldly power or of spirituality.… — Rudolf Arnheim
The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. — M H Abrams
We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything. — Ajahn Chah
People mistakenly think that art is about nature, or about an artists feelings about nature. It is instead a path of enlightenment and pleasure, one… — Wolf Kahn
I have searched everywhere to find an answer to my question, 'Is there enlightenment?' but have never questioned the search itself. Because I have assumed… — U.G. Krishnamurti
Enlightenment, or true happiness, is not a transcendental state. It is a condition of broad wisdom, boundless energy, and good fortune wherein we each shape… — Josei Toda
In human life, you will find players of religion until the knowledge and proficiency in religion will be cleansed from all superstitions, and will be… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment. — Leo Tolstoy
Climbing is the lazy man's way to enlightenment. It forces you to pay attention, because if you don't, you won't succeed, which is minor -… — Unknown Author
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same… — H. L. Mencken
... an essential feature of a decent society, and an almost defining feature of a democratic society, is relative equality of outcome - not opportunity,… — Noam Chomsky
Understanding others is knowledge, Understanding oneself is enlightenment; Conquering others is power, Conquering oneself is strength. — Laozi
The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith. — Michael Polanyi
Enlightenment, and the death which comes before it, is the primary business of Varanasi. — Tahir Shah
Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in… — Walter Isaacson
Sitting peacefully on a cushion day and night seeking to attain Buddhahood, rejecting life and death in hopes of realizing enlightenment, is all like a… — Unknown Author
In the past, kong-an (koan) practicing meant checking someone's enlightenment. Now we use kong-ans to make our lives correct. . . . You must use… — Seungsahn
A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things. — Reginald Horace Blyth
Whenever learners or those beyond learning awaken the mind, for the first time they plant one buddha-nature. Working with the four elements and five clusters,… — Dogen
There is a flaw with words, they always force us to feel enlightened, but when we turn around to face the world they always fail… — Carlos Castaneda

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