Quotes About Enlightenment

Flaky devotionalism, bowing and scraping and sucking up to the teacher is very phony. It is counterproductive to enlightenment and spiritual development. What is necessary is mutual respect.

My favorite: Spirituality is a domain of awareness.

When a fully qualified Mahayana disciple relies completely upon a fully qualified Mahayana Spiritual Guide the attainment of enlightenment is easy.

There's a fire that burns away the lies, manifesting in the spiritual eye.

To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit.

The spiritual path is not one of attainment, but of return.

Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.

You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance.

There is a region beyond reason. Unless you get there, you will not know the sweetness of love, nor the Divine.

If only there is a sufficient number of people whose experience of life goes beyond body and mind, this world will be a very different place.

The sign of an advanced spiritual person is that they don't think they're an advanced spiritual person until after liberation.

Devotion means your limited entity has been dissolved; a much larger possibility has become a living reality for you.

If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's simply a function in this world.

One can have awareness of the Soul (Atmalakshi) after realizing 'Who am I?

We praise God, not because he needs our praise (for all glory resides in and on him), but in order to see him more clearly, enlarge our soul, and relieve our spirit.

Even this is paradoxical because even though the ego does all the spiritual practice in the beginning, it's the Truth that has orchestrated it all.

The awakening process is not about 'finding who you are' but more about finding out about the ego, about who you are not.

Till the chit is in blissful state, the world does not come in one's remembrance (one forgets the world till that time).

You are never a real guru until you understand that you are serving others and delivering them to the light.

The ego is the seeker but does not want the Truth.

Spiritual awakening is not really spiritual at all.

Third-eye is a gift from life. It's the gift you receive when you travel the long path of both your external and internal reality towards the self.

Lord Shiva, you my sunshine, my soul, Sivoham.

When you are on the spiritual path, and you are looking for the answers outside, there is an ample of reasons, for you to deviate from the path. The path of the ultimate truth is straight way inside