Enlightenment Quotes - Page 16

Paradoxically, the more deeply one grows in enlightenment, the more clearly one discerns one's own frailties and limitations.

Art is a necessity, an essential part of our enlightenment process.

To me, the most important thing is to tell a good story. If I can do that, I think that enlightenment, respect of nature, etc. follows.

I mean that much more than wiser beings from beyond the stars bringing us enlightenment or death or salvation, we are likely to find ourselves the wisest beings on the scene.

For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation?

Whether or not enlightenment is possible at the moment of death, the practices that prepare one for this possibility also bring one closer to the bone of life.

I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.

Enlightenment is being able to go to your own home and feel comfortable.

There are about 15 million Muslims in the EU. They face ignorance, insult and even persecution. They cannot be wished away. To impose Enlightenment freedoms is self-defeating. Anyway, the Muslims have their own enlightenment.

I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats.

To nobody can you communicate in words and teachings, what happened to you in your hour of enlightenment.

For each inclosed spirit is a star Enlightening his own little sphere

I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.

Live on berries in a hollowed-out comet lit by artificial suns long enough, and you start to have delusions about achieving enlightenment.

When a fully qualified Mahayana disciple relies completely upon a fully qualified Mahayana Spiritual Guide the attainment of enlightenment is easy.

Enlightenment is beyond self-improvement and spiritual seeking. It is the final resolution of a case of mistaken identity. It is the direct recognition of your eternal nature and the seeing through of who you have falsely believed yourself to be.

Expect forces to interfere with you and expect to conquer them all, if you are serious about the study. Just as there are powers that interfere with those who seek enlightenment, there are forces that will help.

If there is no way out and confrontation and battle is inevitable, one can use power and strategy, balance and wisdom and enlightenment to win, of course. But the best battle is the battle that is never fought.

From the highest state of mind you have a window whereby you could perhaps move beyond all states of mind, to enlightenment.

On the pathway that leads to enlightenment, only your heart can tell you what is right.

So in the world of Enlightenment, things are just things, except they're not things. We're in nirvana. There is no debating team.

Enlightenment is represented by Sri Krishna, who is said to be an avatar.

The sexual energies returned, when they're not evolved, are still linked with violence and the fear of power - the fear of women.

The attention that's being projected by men who simply watch you walking down the street, in the office, or in bed, in most cases, is going to be extremely destructive.

All disease and aging occurs as the subtle physical body breaks down.