Quotes About Enlightenment

As if only he and the blind man could see what the rest of them could not.

What these adults need then is an enlightened witness who can accompany them on the road to their own truth, help them embark on a process in the course of which they will finally permit themselves the always-wanted but always-denied things: trust, respect, and love for themselves. We must abandon the expectation that someday the parents will give us what they withheld in childhood. This

We're asleep, said Suni. Just walking and talking, eating and shitting. Sound asleep. And we have to be that way, of course, said Anne. It's the human equivalent of fallowness. Spiritual hibernation, said Suni.

However, loving is nothing if it is not an education...

Hope to sin only in the service of waking up.

When the Buddha, dying, entreated his followers to "be a lamp unto your self," I understood he was willing to free his followers even from his own teachings. He had done all he could do, taught them everything he had learned. Now, their own enlightenment was up to them.

The only thing to transcend is the idea that there's something to transcend. Nirvana is samsara. I finally got the memo.

The message is: Widen the area of consciousness.

I know too much and not enough.

I have mystical visions and cosmic vibrations

Ashoka supplemented this general moral and political principle by a dialectical argument based on enlightened self-interest: 'For he who does reverence to his own sect while disparaging the sects of others wholly from attachment to his own sect, in reality inflicts, by such conduct, the severest injury on his own sect.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; … Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; … Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.53

Ah, children of the sunlight and the gaslight, how little you know of the world in which you live!

As we run, we become.

Knowledge isn't always a gift, d'you see? Sometimes it's better we be swaddled in the comforting darkness of ignorance.

They say belief is righteous, but to Muslan only doubt was divine. From doubt flows curiosity, and knowledge, and progress. From belief flows only ignorance and decay.

When compassion becomes unconditionally ordinary and familiar for you, you have progressed from knowledge to experience to wisdom.

Cuando consigas despegar totalmente la atención de tu propio cuerpo, de las personas que forman parte de tu vida, de tus pertenencias, de los lugares que frecuentas e incluso del mismísimo tiempo, olvidarás literalmente la identidad que has forjado mientras vivías como un cuerpo en este espacio-tiempo.

Es la coyuntura en la que el alma se libera o se hunde en la inconsciencia.

When all is said and done, there is no shortcut to Nirvana. But in this narcissistic age of instant gratification and swift solution, the great deception of channeling is that we may glide effortlessly back to the Godhead. All we have is pay our money, take our seats and dream on as loving discarnates lead us to enlightenment. Why, the Big E. is just around the corner and anyway - didn't you know? - we are God.

The Lotus Way might lead to nirvana, but it was a long trip, and when you had a lot of miles to cover, it was just natural to want some drive-thru along the road.

As I awaken me, I awaken you.

A vision of spirituality beyond authoritarianism.

Buy the truth and do not sell it; get wisdom, discipline and understanding. PROVERBS 23:23