Enlightenment Quotes - Page 6

Although we have no actual written communications from the world of emptiness, we have some hints or suggestions about what is going on in that world, and that is, you might say, enlightenment. When you see plum blossoms or hear the sound of a small stone hitting bamboo, that is a letter from the world of emptiness.

Don't move. Just die over and over. Don't anticipate. Nothing can save you now because you have only this moment. Not even enlightenment will help you now because there are no other moments. With no future, be true to yourself and express yourself fully. Don't move.

All those who slight me to my face, Or do me any other evil, Even if they blame or slander me, May they attain the fortune of enlightenment!

In the course of time one does not feel even the existence of God. After attaining enlightenment one sees that gods and deities are all Maya.

Enlightenment is lightening up.

The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.

Attachment is the main thing that is blocking your path towards enlightenment.

We live in a world of careers. Work, as Sri Krishna points out in the Bhagavad Gita, is a necessary path for everyone attaining enlightenment. It is something that we all do. Some people work very hard at not working.

Enlightenment is not the process of learning 'new' information. It is the process of 'reminding' ourselves that the answers are already 'within our consciousness'. All knowledge, all energy, all information is within us, not outside of us. it always has been and always will be.

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

Instant enlightenment is to give all your happiness away to others.

A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be.

We are approaching a time when Christians, especially, may have to declare the social contract between Enlightenment rationalists and Biblical believers - which formed the basis of the constitution written at our nation's founding - null and void.

Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.

We need to learn that truth consists not in correct doctrine, but in correct doctrine plus the inward enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.

Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.

There is only one way of attaining liberation and of obtaining the omniscience of enlightenment: following an authentic spiritual master.

Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security.

Enlightenment has nothing to do with physical knowledge. It is the experience of existence. Existence is infinite. There are countless universes and creations taking place simultaneously.

The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity.

Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom...is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go. -Anthony Bourdain

It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn. Maybe that's enlightenment enough - to know that there is no final resting place of the mind, no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom, at least for me, means realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.

Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation.

What the world needs more than anything are Bodhisattvas of peace, lawyers, politicians, teachers working tirelessly for the enlightenment of themselves and others.