Enlightenment Quotes - Page 14

There's a source, there's a perennial source from which all things come forth. We call it the Godhead, Nirvana, the Tao, enlightenment. It's big; it's bright; it's perfect, as are all of its children, as are we.

Once you have personally experienced enlightenment, you will see beyond the ocean of death to the everlasting shores of immortality.

You must learn to meditate and stop your thoughts. You must overcome all egotism and selfishness by serving others. You must cleanse your mind so that enlightenment will find a happy place to reside there.

It's necessary, sometimes, for women to embrace the company of other women even more than might seem normal. But there is no normal in this world. Radical change is necessary to counterbalance what has occurred.

By asseting the creation myth, in which God is a man over ealier creation myths in which God was viewed as a woman, men hoped to prove that the position of supremacy that they had assumed was Divine Law.

The day-to-day life we lead has nothing to do with enlightenment. It is just around the corner, and we don't see it.

What does God really look like stripped naked? That's the province of enlightenment...the formless, perfect face of existence.

In the case of the brujos, the sorcerers in Mexico, the Spanish Conquest forced them to develop their second attention.

My dear brothers, never forget, when you hear the progress of enlightenment vaunted, that the devil's best trick is to persuade you that he doesn't exist!

There is no whit less enlightenment under the tree by your street than there was under the Buddha's bo tree. I invite you to go sit under that tree by your street.

Enlightenment remains unrealized so long as it is considered as a specific state to be attained, and for which there are standards of success.

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think.

Enlightenment says the world is nothing Nothing but a dream, everything's an illusion And nothing is real.

Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.

If western culture is shown to be rich it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to "dissolve" harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.

I don't believe that human beings can achieve ultimate enlightenment, because humans have flaws.

My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness.

To be completely enlightened means that you're a Buddha.I don't speak of enlightenment.

No one's life is totally morbid. Even on a subtle scale there's little flashes of enlightenment and of happiness and joy.

For all the tribulations in our lives, for all the troubles that remain in the world, the decline of violence is an accomplishment that we can savor - and an impetus to cherish the forces of civilization and enlightenment that made it possible.

It is not after we understand the truth that we attain enlightenment. To realize the truth is to live - to exist here and now.

Today’s enlightenment is tomorrows mistake

Enlightenment! When it comes, it comes like a brick to the head, doesn't it?

Unity is divinity, purity is enlightenment.