Quotes About Enlightenment

La futilité des préoccupations mondaines leur apparaissait dans toute son évidence.

We take spiritual initiation when we become conscious of the Divine within us, and thereby contact the Divine without us.

spirituality alone will not take a man far in the Mysteries; he must have intellectual powers as well.

Enter ye in.

she was in this life, but not of it.

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?

So then I whispered, 'What is this thing, Lord?' and I began to cry; the tears went like rain goes down on the world without touching the face of Heaven. Suddenly I realized that it was the first time in my life my tears were strange to me because they just went straight forward out of my eyes;

To study the Buddha Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things. When actualized by myriad things, your body and mind as well as the bodies and minds of others drop away. No trace of enlightenment remains, and this no-trace continues endlessly.

If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.

There are beings that we consider not very spiritually evolved. That does not mean they are negative.

People will become more aware. They will realize they are bigger than they believe they are. They are without limits. Some of these consciousnesses will wake up and some of them will not wake up because they are focused on themselves.

Open your God self, I say to you! Open your God self, and allow the light to enter.

I like learning new stuff, and continuing to educate myself as best I can.

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.

Self-understanding is the prelude to transformation, to moving beyond the ego and all that makes up what is called "false personality.

What's the point of having great knowledge and keeping them all to yourself?

For only with your help shall They come to see–and with no more Than average daily terror– All things for what they are, All things for what they are.

He considered China's interference in Korea to be an intolerable attempt to prevent the spread of enlightenment, and the war itself not merely a struggle between two countries but a "battle for the sake of world culture."49

The soul knows everything. Be who you are and your life will transform forever.

I am the Soul. I am the Light Divine. I am Love. I am Will. I am Fixed Design.

Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.

What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.

To attain Buddhahood ... we must scatter this life's aims and objects to the wind.