Age Quote by Dogen

By god the Buddhist means that from which the universe was born, the unborn of the Buddhist scriptures, and by soul that factor in…

— Christmas Humphreys

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…

— Frederick Lenz

Enlightenment does not come by reading many books, obtaining multiple academic degrees, meditating and starving the body under an ancient tree or praying the…

— Prem Tihan

Enlightenment has nothing to do with being spiritual. Being spiritual is just an idea - it's another ring of perception.

— Frederick Lenz

“In Buddhist thought, enlightenment is understood not as the presence of something but as the absence of something: the permanent extinction in our lives…

— Simon Parke

Enlightenment requires discipline, balance, knowledge, power, happiness and a sense of responsibility and sacrifice, being able to do things with your life that you…

— Frederick Lenz

Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to become...

— Robert Thurman

Enlightenment is just the beginning, later on come other skills . . . patience, a forgiving nature, extreme attention . . . .

— E. J. Gold

Enlightenment is not so much a hard-won achievement, much less a "creation," but instead is deep relaxation and recovery of our natural condition. You…

— Alex Grey

Enlightenment simply means that you've gotten above the body-mind complex. You've refined the self, dissolved it in the white light of eternity and gone…

— Frederick Lenz

Occasionally, in each age and in different lands, a Buddha is born, that is to say, an enlightened person...they re-codify the ways, the practices,…

— Frederick Lenz

If there isn't an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment.

— Eckhart Tolle