Enlightenment Quotes - Page 24

It is vain to think that we choose, that our own energy, our own intellect will create the possibility of us experiencing a higher order of existence. Liberation is to know you are that.

Normally the experience of enlightenment occurs in stages. A person will usually have many small enlightenments before full enlightenment dawns.

All beings exist ultimately in a condition of inner enlightenment. Enlightenment is in all things.

Without enlightenment, everything in life is harsh. Sooner or later you see everyone you love die, unless you die first, of course. This causes you to suffer.

Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment.

Meditation is the quickest path to enlightenment.

The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and suffering.

Personal power is a feeling that everybody is looking for called satisfaction. It is different from enlightenment, but you need personal power to become enlightened. Personal power is not the end of the process.

Simply by performing good actions and thinking good thoughts you will not attain enlightenment. It takes something more.

Zen was an attempt to get back to the purest teachings of the Buddha -enlightenment without strings.

Zen is a very quick path. Zen is the path of meditation. The word Zen means emptiness or fullness, meditation. Meditation is the quickest path to enlightenment.

Enlightenment is not about being political. It is not a social club. Ashrams often turn into that, I know. Societies of enlightenment often just become cliques.

Care, but don't be pushy! Don't preach about enlightenment to people who don't really want to hear about it.

Spiritual knowledge is the experience of enlightenment, and requires an understanding of the inner-most workings of the enlightenment cycle.

Anyone who seeks enlightenment is going to encounter opposition, whether it is from their society or from non-physical forces or friends or whatever it is. Be strong enough to go through that and win.

There are many paths that lead to enlightenment. There are lesser enlightenments along the way to a larger enlightenment, referred to sometimes as liberation.

The intuitive wisdom that comes from your infinite mind can add to your creativity, success and well-being, and can take you to the threshold of enlightenment.

The universe is endless. Enlightenment is endless. You have only touched the outer periphery of the endless still center of perfect being.

Becoming enlightened doesn't mean everything works your way.

The average woman today is almost completely out of touch with her own power.

What you focus on you become. So always focus on that which is highest, brightest, happiest and most noble of all things, enlightenment.

You have visits, then you have disappearances. You enter, then you exit. You come, you go. It would be so great if you could just get to human enlightenment on a linear path.

I am a humble adherent of...Enlightenment Rationalist Fundamentalism.

Enlightenment is probably antithetical to impatience.

You are not seeking to attain some future state. That is the fallacy of many spiritual seekers. They have an image of some state - enlightenment, or whatever they call it - they want to achieve.