Quotes About Enlightenment

I am in a sorry state, for I do not even know what I do not know. —St. Augustine

There is only one true purpose in life: to wake up from the delusion that you are separate from everything else.

When I say that Zen is life, I mean that Zen is not to be confined within conceptualization, that Zen is what makes conceptualization possible.

you can live a whole life time never being awake.

One of the marks of a life well lived has to be reaching a state of finally getting it, of not needing more, and of being able to sign off with something approaching peace of mind.

Have your life properly aligned with dharma. The technicalities of the movement of the kundalini are easy to master. Dharma is much more complex.

Even before I knew Yoga in this life, I was into that kind of thing.

Wakefulness is the way to life. The fool sleeps As if he were already dead, But the master is awake And he lives forever.

Keeping away for all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impunities.

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself, and enlarges the sphere of existence.

Magic is what happens when you have encountered the Divine. It is the life-altering experiences of connecting to the divinity that dwells within yourself and in the world.

There comes a point in your life when you become stark raving insane, commit suicide or become a mystic.

Live life as a series of revelations

"I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment." That's the beginning of the transformation of consciousness.

When you meditate deeply, you will see beyond life and death. You will see that you can't die and you can't be reborn. You are existence itself.

Look at the big picture of the wheel of life. Above it, there is a Buddha. He is pointing, not towards the wheel, but away from it. He is indicating that there is something else - nirvana.

Ignorance is death, Knowledge is life.

It is the acme of life to understand life.

Plain intellectual thinking is the peak of ignorance because all that you will know is to play with a few aspects and make others look like fools.

Life in its highest state is understanding.

You have dreamed me into your dream to awaken you from the dreams of life, death and separativity.

Even a good self will create another good self in the next life, and another one, and that good self will never be enlightened. You'll be bound, life after life, by good karma.

What you will be in your next life is the sum total of the realizations that you have had in this lifetime.

There is a still point in eternity. There is a still point where all things intersect. There is a still point beyond life, time, and death. Your experience of the still point is enlightenment.