Quotes About Enlightenment

The essence of all practice is to be cool. Life is not worth getting excited about because whatever you perceive is an illusion.

There is competition in Zen. Let's not be ridiculous. There is competition in everything in life; being a winner in Zen means, competing and winning in the world of enlightenment.

Each time you meditate you have the possibility of completely changing your life in one meditation. If you meditate with your whole heart and your whole soul, you will become light itself.

Use power carefully. Don't be afraid to have it. Learn balance and wisdom in addition to the unlocking of the kundalini, if you wish to have a happy and enlightened life.

Enlightenment requires discipline, balance, knowledge, power, happiness and a sense of responsibility and sacrifice, being able to do things with your life that you would not have done otherwise.

They don't understand the multi-life sequences. Anything they can't see in a laboratory, they think is nonsense.

Some departures bring more light to your life!

The life of Gautama Buddha illustrates the power of service, compassion and, most importantly, renunciation. He was convinced that material wealth is not the sole goal.

One day you're going to learn something that can't be explained with science. And when that happens, your life's going to change in ways you can't imagine.

If only we could be enlightened enough to be able to listen in the silence.

Your ecstasy is a movement towards the height and your meditation is a movement towards the depth. And once you have both, your life becomes a celebration.

All your knowledge is dust. Knowing is your purity, knowledge is dust.

The other world is hidden in this world. The Buddha is asleep in the Zorba. It has to be awakened. And nobody can awaken you except life itself.

The kind who live for music and are constantly seeking it out, anywhere they can. Who can't imagine a life without it. They're enlightened.

A university is not, thank heavens, a place for vocational instruction, it has nothing to do with training for a working life and career, it is a place for education, something quite different.

We want to know in order to make ourselves free. That is our life: one universal cry for freedom.

No one's life is totally morbid. Even on a subtle scale there's little flashes of enlightenment and of happiness and joy.

I do think that someone who decides to devote themselves entirely to the spiritual life, that that is more meritorious.

Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life

Enlightenment demands that you take responsibility for your way of life.

The transformation toward eternal life is gradual. The heavy gross energy of body, mind, and spirit must first be purified and uplifted. When the energy ascends... then self mastery can be sought.

Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.

If you fully awaken, you will not know yourself. Understand this, and you will understand all.

The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem.