Quotes About Enlightenment

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.

You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves.

Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Many paths lead from the foot of the mountain, but at the peak we all gaze at the single bright moon.

The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.

What does learning mean: accumulating knowledge or transforming your life?

As you grow in spirituality, your whole life must improve.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.

All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

Those who see worldly life as an obstacle to Dharma see no Dharma in everyday actions. They have not yet discovered that there are no everyday actions outside of Dharma.

Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death

Your sole purpose in life is to attain God-realization. All else is useless and worthless.

Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.

Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment.

The only problem facing you in life is the belief in separation from your Source. Solve that one and all the other ones will vanish.

He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life.

Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see things in sunlit clarity as they actually are.

It shouldn't matter what anyone else thinks. Life is not easy. The road to happiness is not a path well trotted. You have to find your own path to enlightenment.

When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by the narrow focus of our usual worm's eye view