Enlightenment Quotes - Page 3

In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.

Consider a very natural process, menstruation, and how the association has been created in which this process is dirty, degrading.

Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.

If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is 'the quiet acceptance of what is'.

They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.

There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice.

There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take the one with a heart.

Words are a distraction to enlightenment. Getting rid of conceptual thinking means enlightenment.

I came to the conclusion that we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask. Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.

The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.

The whole purpose of life is to gain enlightenment. Nothing else is significant compared to that completely natural, exalted state of consciousness. So always strive for that. Set your life around that goal. Don't get caught up in small things, and then it will be yours.

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.

Gain is delusion; loss is enlightenment.

Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.

The real pleasure,the real peace, the real enlightenment is to give. The more you give the more you get. If you give 10, you get 100.

Your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.

There is a flaw with words, they always force us to feel enlightened, but when we turn around to face the world they always fail us and we end up facing the world as we always have, without enlightenment

Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.

Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment.

Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everythiong else.

Practice and enlightenment are not two.

I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.

Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment.

Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power.