Enlightenment Quotes - Page 7

Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment.

Logic is the key to an all-inclusive spiritual well-being.

Enlightenment is awakened awareness.

Art is a necessity - an essential part of our enlightenment process. We cannot, as a civilized society, regard ourselves as being enlightened without the arts.

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.

Zen is a special transmission outside the scriptures,With no reliance on words and letters.A direct pointing to the human mind,And the realization of enlightenment.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

So the single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind.

Perhaps the most concise summary of enlightenment would be: transcending dualism . ... Dualism is the conceptual division of the world into categories ... human perception is by nature a dualistic phenomenon - which makes the quest for enlightenment an uphill struggle, to say the least.

The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting.

The goal of society in general is to succeed in the world, whereas the goal of enlightenment is to transcend beyond it.

Enlightenment consists not merely in the seeing of luminous shapes and visions, but in making the darkness visible. The latter procedure is more difficult and therefore, unpopular.

The pursuit of enlightenment is for the purpose of the world, not merely for the purpose of the individual. Practices for enlightenment must lead to action in the world.

You must continue to go back to the beginning, to the foundation, and question the foundation. Even once you‘ve reached Samadhi you must go back so you can create it at will. Samadhi is the beginning of spiritual growth, not the end. You must always be questioning. Enlightenment comes as an accident at first, then you have to learn to recreate it.

Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand.

Enlightenment is your ego's greatest disappointment.

WHETHER BEINGS LOVE ME OR FEAR ME IS IRRELEVANT. IF BEINGS GIVE ME THEIR ATTENTION I WILL TAKE THEM TO ENLIGHTENMENT AND BLISS.

The Bible has been used as a way of making us accept our situation, and not to bring enlightenment to the poor.

Enlightenment is very possible for the ordinary individual. Actually, it is easier than for someone who thinks that they are special.

Enlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave realizes it is water. At that moment, all fear of death disappears.

Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

Enlightenment is x-rated, honey; if you haven't checked it out. It's hot, it's vivacious. You're going to take your mind and merge it with the entire cosmos.

Enlightenment is the complete awareness of life without mental modifications.

Enlightenment means choosing to dwell in a state of presence rather than in time. It means saying yes to what is.

A flash of enlightenment offers a preview of coming attractions, but when it fades, you will see more clearly what separates you from that state - your compulsive habits, outmoded beliefs, false associations, and other mental structures. Just when our lives are starting to get better, we may feel like things are getting worse - because for the first time we see clearly what needs to be done.