Enlightenment Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Enlightenment
Enlightenment Quotes & Sayings
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Men fearing their innate power, pushed woman back into slavery.
— Frederick Lenz
Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment.
— Gautama Buddha
Everyone is good if you see from good side.
— Sushil Singh
A woman's place, her entire experience in life, has been and in many places still is dependent upon the man she marries.
— Frederick Lenz
You will always have time for what you make time for
— Gary Hopkins
Nobody makes anybody enlightened.Just tell them what you want to say,
then let them decide for themselves. — Toba Beta
When a star falls from the sky, it is replaced by the deeds of the enlightened.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.
— Pankaj Mishra
Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
— M. Scott Peck
You will bring yourself the suffering you need to bring yourself so that you may awaken.
— T. Scott McLeod
Everything aids everything, because all things are a reflection of the Buddha mind, of the mind of Enlightenment.
— Frederick Lenz
Once there is realization of self challenge, ego versus soul, competition with others becomes futile.
— T.F. Hodge
Knowledge is a priceless gift of enlightenment
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We effect more than we can possibly know. With every mood, every thought, every word, every gesture, we change our lives and our universe.
— Maharishi Sadasiva Isham
As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
— Chogyam Trungpa
Life sucks. Enlightenment is getting over it.
— Ari Delta
We do not learn for the benefit of anyone, we learn to unlearn ignorance.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.
— Kurt Vonnegut
This thing I am feeling, I'm almost certain, is the closest I'll ever come to standing somewhere in between truth and reconciliation.
— Raquel Cepeda
My enlightenment comes from the lucid awareness of my extinction not the dream of my eternal ego.
— Christopher Zzenn Loren
When you accept what is, every piece of meat - every moment - is the best. That is enlightenment.
— Eckhart Tolle
It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us. - Tilopa
— Lama Surya Das
Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.
— Vera Farmiga
Chaos is nothing more than beauty about to dance.
— A.D. Posey
Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Be humble in order to attain enlightenment. Thus, after attaining it, be more humble still.
— Samael Aun Weor
It's one thing to have the attitude of enlightenment and another thing to act in an enlightened way, which is conduct or activity ...
— Sakyong Mipham
To nobody can you communicate in words and teachings, what happened to you in your hour of enlightenment.
— Hermann Hesse
Sometimes you just gotta wear the tinfoil hat.
— Gary Hopkins
Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand.
— Alan Cohen
Most people don't care much about enlightenment and the truth. They'd rather watch the Home Shopping Network, and maybe that's another kind of truth.
— Frederick Lenz
You have to become that infinite formless creation, which is life, to know it. It cannot be known in an intellectual sense. That is enlightenment.
— Frederick Lenz
The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
— Ramana Maharshi
Relationship are part of the vast plan for our enlightenment.
— Marianne Williamson
And what is enlightenment anyway but delusions we can live with?
— Jeanette Winterson
We've got to stand up not only for free speech, but also for all that we've inherited from the Enlightenment and from Christianity.
— Roger Scruton
The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.
— Albert Einstein
To hate the hate was just more hate; to reject the rejection was just more rejection; to judge the judging, just more judging.
— T. Scott McLeod
I think it is very important to view life in terms of winning and losing until complete enlightenment has occurred.
— Frederick Lenz
God then made the first woman, not directly out of his own substance, but from Adam's rib. Her purpose was to serve man.
— Frederick Lenz
God is your very being. So the first thing is, don't think about enlightenment as a goal.
— Rajneesh
We are figments of the same imagination ... We are one
— Gary Hopkins
No practice exists in isolation.
— Idries Shah
The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
— Michel Foucault
God and I will achieve Supreme Enlightenment at the same moment.
— Lon Milo DuQuette
Enlightenment means that you've become a sophisticated perceiver, without letting anyone know that you're sophisticated.
— Frederick Lenz
It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.
— Gore Vidal
The sage is sick of being sick (Tao Te Ching)
— Robert Baohm
Judge not, lest ye miss out on all the fun.
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead it's about becoming more fully human ... It is the end of ignorance.
— Lama Surya Das
Love is the only power that heals, connects and includes all ... not by force, but by grace.
— Vivian Amis
He who wishes to know, must seek to understand.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Well, then, eliminate the people, curtail them, force them to be silent. Because the European Enlightenment is more important than people.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment.
— Marisha Pessl
I'm sorry. This is diary, not enlightenment.
— Maryse Holder
Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.
— D.T. Suzuki
The miracle of enlightenment is that you take the self and let it dissolve in the white light of eternity.
— Frederick Lenz
It is possible to move to an enlightened state of mind from a lower bardo or level of awareness. It can happen, but it is extremely unlikely.
— Frederick Lenz
Women have been systematically pushed out of spirituality by men.
— Frederick Lenz
Neglect of women is the major cause for the society's downfall.
— Abhijit Naskar
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Enlightenment — Kim Cormack
True wisdom is being able to say 'it is what it is' with a smile of celebratory wonder on your face.
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal
To attain to enlightenment is to attain to all. When you are not, you become the whole.
— Swami Dhyan Giten
The less human you feel, the more human you become.
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal
True enlightenment is when you know that you're nobody and that you are an interplay and display of perplexing energy.
— Debasish Mridha
I need time every day to think.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The light is supposed to enter through your breaks, wounds, and cracks.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
They are denied access to the more advanced techniques of releasing the kundalini energy, which bring about quantum leaps in self-awareness.
— Frederick Lenz
Enlightenment is your ego's greatest disappointment.
— Wayne Dyer
Enlightenment is always preceded by confusion.
— Milton H. Erickson
In the case of the brujos, the sorcerers in Mexico, the Spanish Conquest forced them to develop their second attention.
— Frederick Lenz
Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.
— Laird Barron
I have not in this lifetime yet met one person who earnestly seeks enlightenment in the West. Not one person.
— Frederick Lenz
Nature blessed every person with the innate capacity to express wonder and awe for the eternal world and act with a kind and unstinting soul.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
— Jimmy Wales
HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Maybe it's something which can't be defined," Enso Roshi says. "Maybe it's a question, to be lived.
— T. Scott McLeod
Wisdom may teach you that all places are one, but love shows you how to get there.
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal