Enlightenment Quotes

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

You are asking yourself, as all of us must: 'Who am I?' . . . 'Where am I?' . . . 'Whence do I go?' The process of enlightenment is usually slow. But, in the end, our seeking always brings a finding. These great mysteries are, after all, enshrined in complete simplicity.

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 that goal of enlightenment exists, I have had to search. It is the search itself which has been choking me and keeping me out of my natural state. There is no such thing as spiritual or psychological enlightenment because there is no such thing as spirit or psyche at all. I have been a damn fool all my life, searching for something which does not exist. My search is at an end.

Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretence. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.

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 purified and perfected by the enlightenment of real science.

Enlightenment is always preceded by confusion.

The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.

Even in the world, the yogi who faithfully discharges his responsibilities, without personal motive or attachment, treads the sure path of enlightenment.

Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.

Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.

The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.

Studying the Buddha way is studying oneself. Studying oneself is forgetting oneself. Forgetting oneself is being enlightened by all things. Being enlightened by all things is to shed the body-mind of oneself, and those of others. No trace of enlightenment remains, and this traceless enlightenment continues endlessly.

Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It is the actualization of wisdom, The ultimate truth of the oneness of all things.

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment.

If you have attained something, this is the surest proof that you have gone astray. Therefore, not to have is to have, silence is thunder, ignorance is enlightenment.

We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.

If you see the illusion you are enlightened, but if you think that you are enlightened you are in the illusion!

Create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path

When we wake up from our confused state of mind, that is enlightenment.

Be humble in order to attain enlightenment. Thus, after attaining it, be more humble still.

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

We live in an age that's repeating itself endlessly. We're getting closer again to the techno-chic world we saw in Atlantis that occurs in countless planes. It's indigenous to enlightenment.

The high-priests and priestesses of Atlantis had discovered many of the deepest secrets of the universe. They had come to understand all about reincarnation, karma, and the innermost workings of the Enlightenment Cycle.

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 our own destiny, find fulfillment in daily activities, and come to understand our ultimate purpose in life.

A burrito is a delicious food item that breaks down all social barriers and leads to temporary spiritual enlightenment.

The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition of vicious insight allows us a full grasp of the world, all things considered, just as a frigid melancholy grants us full possession of ourselves. We may hide from horror only in the heart of horror. (“The Medusa”)

Do not try to correct the mind. Trying to correct the mind is like trying to correct the waves in the ocean. Can you stop the waves in the ocean? If you want to see an ocean without waves you only have to dive deeper. When you dive deep inside you will experience the stillness of the ocean. And if it is all frozen that is enlightenment.

The point of recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony unleashes one of the most horrifyingly violent episodes in the history of music....The point is not to hold up Beethoven as exceptionally monstrous. The Ninth Symphony is probably our most compelling articulation in music of the contradictory impulses that have organized patriarchal culture since the Enlightenment. Moreover, within the parameters of his own musical compositions, he may be heard as enacting a critique of narrative obligations that is...devestating.

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 this world.

Hip-Hop is my vehicle to scientific and universal enlightenment

Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.

Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785)

Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.

The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.

Looking for enlightenment is like looking for a flashlight when all you need the flashlight for is to find the flashlight.

The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.

Enlightenment isn't found with a full stomach, or on a soft pillow.

The Art of Peace begins with you.

I don't want enlightenment, I want him. Sorry Buddha, I loved him more than you.

Enlightenment, and the death which comes before it, is the primary business of Varanasi.

Being an outsider to some extent, someone who does not "fit in" with others or is rejected by them for whatever reason, makes life difficult, but it also places you at an advantage as far as enlightenment is concerned. It takes you out of unconsciousness almost by force.

Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!

To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.

Ultimately one must abandon the path to enlightenment. If you still define yourself as a Buddhist, you are not a buddha yet.

Enlightenments, like accidents, happen only to prepared minds.

Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.

Consider a very natural process, menstruation, and how the association has been created in which this process is dirty, degrading.

One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.