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Quotes About Enlightenment

All spiritual practice must be directed to the removal of the husk and the revelation of the kernel.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Spirituality is the science of the Soul.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual experiences are like mist, they will evaporate.
~ Jigdral Yeshe Dorje
It takes years for average persons in the nagual's world to remove themselves from their involvement with themselves and be capable of seeing the wonder of it all.
~ Florinda Donner
Those who are Awake live in a state of constant amazement.
~ Jack Kornfield
The first step toward spiritual growth is to become aware of your emotions.
~ Gary Zukav
Dispassion and humility lead to spiritual knowledge. Without them no one will see the Lord.
~ Maximus the Confessor
A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Only a spiritual being has awareness.
~ Chick Corea
Soul development should take precedence over all things.
~ Edgar Cayce
Tantra is for a person who has reached a point in their spiritual evolution where everything looks the same.
~ Frederick Lenz
Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.
~ Nhat Hanh
We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.
~ Thomas Merton
Mental alertness is not awareness. Mental alertness only enhances your survival instincts. It does not take you towards liberation.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
In a special sense... the three great natural states of waking, dreaming, and deep sleep contain an entire spectrum of spiritual enlightenment.
~ Ken Wilber
The process of gathering spiritual light is the quest of a lifetime.
~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
The point of the spiritual revolution is not to become a good Buddhist, but to become a wise and compassionate human being, to awaken from our life of complacency and ignorance and to be a buddha.
~ Noah Levine
If you want to find out the purpose of life, you need to look beyond the limitations of body and mind.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
Spiritual life is absolute reality. Krishna is real but we have lost the ability to realize him.
~ Bhakti Charu Swami
You wander from room to room Hunting for the diamond necklace That is already around your neck!
~ Rumi
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The idea that consciousness is the ground of being is the basis of all spiritual traditions.
~ Amit Goswami
I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten.
~ Eckhart Tolle
There is only one way of attaining liberation and of obtaining the omniscience of enlightenment: following an authentic spiritual master.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche