Quotes About Enlightenment

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

You're thrown to the side and then you think, oh, there's more to life than what we really can just see in front of us. There's something else going on.

Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.

Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.

Reincarnation is not what a lot of people think. Yes, we are eternal. No, everyone does not attain enlightenment; it's not necessary; life is smarter than we are.

My whole life, I never spoke a single-word.

What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.

There is something beyond power. The totality of one's being. Some call it nirvana. We have a higher destiny. Before you can scratch the surface, you have to bring your life into order.

The study of enlightenment is really a reorganization of our perceptual body or our perceptual field. We learn to see life more directly and more clearly.

As a student of life I just want to be constantly progressing mentally, physically, and spiritually.

A disciple asked, "Who is a Master?" The Master replied, "Anyone to whom it is given to let go of the ego. Such a person's life is then a masterpiece.

It is about getting a sense of integrity about issues. That was was my enlightenment over it and knowing that I had a safe place to go to handle anything in life.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Muichi Motsu: "Hold nothing": If you meet Buddha, kill Buddha. If you meet the patriarchs, kill the patriarchs. Free of all, bound by nothing, you live your life simply as it is

Life without learning is death.

You cannot experience what you don't know. And you don't know you are in "heaven" right now because you have not experienced it.

Meditation has only one meaning, and that is going beyond the mind and becoming a witness. In your witnessing is the miracle - the whole mystery of life

Taking refuge means that you align and orient your life toward Buddha's example and toward enlightenment.

The enduring life is the one that begins once we awaken from this world. And it is in that awakening that we realize... It was only a dream

There's more to life than physical and material.

Do not live in the shadow of the masters for ever. Learn to live in the light of your soul. Life deserves full expression.

To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.

Kill the cow of your ego as quickly as you can, so that your inner spirit can come to life and attain true awareness.

As long as one accepts "time" tacitly as such he is dreaming a dream, not living a life.