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Quotes About Enlightenment

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
~ Roald Dahl
To know everything is to know nothing, but to know nothing is to know everything.
~ Confucius
The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.
~ Laozi
Do your actions in the world, without forgetting that your find goal in life is to break free from all bondage and limitations. Always 'remember that you have a higher goal to attain.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
Enlightenment is the complete awareness of life without mental modifications.
~ Frederick Lenz
When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
Die before you die and find that there is no death.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Whoever makes you smarter a little earlier in life makes you better
~ Charlie Munger
Whoever does not detach himself from the ego never attains the Absolute and never deciphers life.
~ Constantin Brancusi
As you sit in this light from week to week, you will transform and grow and develop. It washes away the samskaras, the past-life tendencies. It washes away the karmic tendencies from this life.
~ Frederick Lenz
Seeking but not finding the house builder I travelled through life after life. How painful is repeated birth! House-builders, you have now been seen. You will not build the house again.
~ Gautama Buddha
Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.
~ Jet Li
When the mind goes beyond the thought of 'the me,' the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness that is incorruptible.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
When you get to a higher level of consciousness, though, when you get into a spiritual approach to life, you are not trying to get someplace else...
~ Wayne Dyer
History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.
~ Wendell Willkie
Complete health and awakening are really the same.
~ Tarthang Tulku
We're blind, deaf and dumb. It is only that Self, which is our life force that makes who and what we are. The realization of that is self-realization.
~ Frederick Lenz
He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
The nation no longer stands for the enlightenment tradition, but rather for military-political hegemony and the total commodification of life.
~ Morris Berman
Your job on Earth, therefore, is not to learn (because you already know), but to remember Who You Are. And to remember who everyone else is.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things.
~ Reginald Horace Blyth
He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living being is called an ariya.
~ Gautama Buddha
Practicing Dharma is the supreme method for improving the quality of our human life.
~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
To be enlightened is to know oneself and not run away.
~ Veronique Vienne