Quotes About Enlightenment

There will be no further evolution without conscious evolution. - Robert Ornstein, The Evolution of Consciousness

including Francis Hutcheson, Adam Smith, and popularizers such as Archibald Alison, elaborating on sensibility and

including Francis Hutcheson, Adam Smith, and popularizers such as Archibald Alison, elaborating on sensibility and sympathy as the most important aspects of human psychology. These products of what Henry May calls the Didactic Enlightenment were enormously influential in America. They were heavily represented in the curricula of American colleges, and their ideas influenced everything from the Declaration of Independence to the practice and theory of all of the fine arts.

Contemporary man, hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgets, has little contact with his inner world, concerns himself with outer, not inner space. But the Master Game is played entirely in the inner world, a vast and complex territory about which men know very little. The aim of the game is true awakening, full development of the powers latent in man. The

The basic idea underlying all the great religions is that man is asleep, that he lives amid dreams and delusions, that he cuts himself off from the universal consciousness (the only meaningful definition of God) to crawl into the narrow shell of a personal ego.

To emerge from this narrow shell, to regain union with the universal consciousness, to pass from the darkness of the ego-centered illusion into the light of the non-ego, this was the real aim of the Religion Game as defined by the great teachers, Jesus, Gautama, Krishna, Mahavira, Lao-tze and the Platonic Socrates. Among

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

Imagine a culture in which everything is geared toward helping all individuals become the best human beings they can be; in which individuals are driven to devoting their lives to becoming enlightened by the natural flood of compassion for others that arises from their wisdom.

To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from ordinary reality. It is not even to come up with a solution, a sort of formula to control reality. Rather, it is an experience of release from all compulsions and sufferings, combined with a precise awareness of any relevent subject of knowledge. Having attained enlightenment one knows everything that matters, and the precise nature of all that is.

Completely give up even concentration, and hold nothing in your mind: you are verily the Self, and therefore free.

We have regarded as real what is unreal. We have to give up this attitude.

Find the Source of this false I: then it will disappear.

There can be no [ego] desire if there is no object. The state of no-desire is enlightenment.

The sage is not unconscious; he is fully aware of the Self.

the experience of the undivided reality".

The one who has known for certain that all this world is the product of illusion, and that nothing exists, naturally enjoys peace.

Only grief is possible when one thinks of oneself as a body.

When will suffering cease? Not until individuality is lost.

Once the I-thought has completely died, there is not even the thought of "I am Self." [There is only Be-ing.]

He lived on that high level, on the same highlands of the spirit that were disclosed in the Upanishads and Sufi classics. To go where Eckhart went is to come close to Lao Tzu and Buddha, and certainly to Jesus Christ.

Do not find any duality. The wise do not see "this" and "that," they do not perceive the "relative". Completely give up distinctions—the "world" of the relative is transcended by the wise. Free from the pairs of opposites (such as better-worse), the sage sees the same everywhere—his perception is nondual. Duality is the root of misery.

When once you realize your own Self, and that there is nothing other than this Self, you will come to look upon the whole universe as the Self.

he is that Self. Then, only, can he view everything as a form of the Self.

To see the false as the false, you need to lay aside all the search-oriented teachings, and focus on (contemplate) the reality that your presence and the Absolute presence cannot be other than the same presence.