Enlightenment Quotes - Page 13

Every human being has consciousness, but not every human being has the same amount. The potential for each one of us human beings is infinite consciousness. This is called supreme enlightenment, and it just needs unfolding by transcending each day. The more consciousness we have, the better life is.

Not a few patients, however, suffering from certain forms of mental disorder, regain a high degree of insight into their mental condition in what might be termed a flash of divine enlightenment.

Beware of the manipulativeness of rich students who were neglected by their parents. They love to turn the campus into hysterical psychodramas of sexual transgression, followed by assertions of parental authority and concern. And don't look for sexual enlightenment from academe, which spews out mountains of books but never looks at life directly.

When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.

Dualistic doctrines that regard mind and body as separate entities do not provide much enlightenment on the nature of the disembodied mental state or on how an immaterial mind and bodily events act on each other

Enlightenment is "being," and it grows; it's end is serenity.

Enlightenment demands that you take responsibility for your way of life.

The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

Enlightenment is any experience of expanding our consciousness beyond its present limits. We could also say that perfect enlightenment is realizing that we have no limits at all, and that the entire universe is alive.

Truly, he thought, the way of enlightenment is like unto half a mile of broken glass.

People get very deep experiences and they think they're enlightened. That's not enlightenment, that's just some realization.

Enlightenment is the realization of the oneness of being, where otherness disappears.

Kung fu was made so the monks could train their bodies and move their bodies with strength, so they could be physical enough to gain mental enlightenment. Before that, they kept falling asleep when [masters] were trying to teach them.

Enlightenment is nothing but your consciousness being concentrated on a single point - now and here.

Enlightenment is when all hope disappears. Enlightenment is disappearance of hope.

Enlightenment is a direct experience with reality.

You are a Buddha, and so is everyone else. I didn't make that up. It was the Buddha himself who said so. He said that all beings had the potential to become awakened. To practice walking meditation is to practice living in mindfulness. Mindfulness and enlightenment are one. Enlightenment leads to mindfulness and mindfulness leads to enlightenment.

The 7 factors of enlightenment: mindfullness, investigation of mental objects, energy, joy, tranquility, concentration and equanimity.

Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute.

Our public monuments are memorials to the Enlightenment.

God and I will achieve Supreme Enlightenment at the same moment.

Because clarity and enlightenment are within your own nature, they are regained without moving an inch.

Sexual enlightenment is that hardhearted process which for hygienic reasons forbids young people to satisfy their curiosity themselves.

In dealing with the arrogant asserter of doubt, it is not the right method to tell him to stop doubting. It is rather the right method to tell him to go on doubting, to doubt a little more, to doubt every day newer and wilder things in the universe, until at last, by some strange enlightenment, he may begin to doubt himself.

Once we've achieved perfect meditation, we're terribly trapped because that's an illusion...any enlightenment that seems ultimate is an illusion.