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.

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

Enlightenment is always preceded by confusion.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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.