Quotes About Enlightenment

Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation.

Escape is not about moving from one place to another. It's about becoming more.

The best education I've had in my life is to travel.

You need energy and life force to see and feel what you need to do. Otherwise you are in a dark room and you can't tell what's going on. You need to practice meditation.

People who meditate deeply find wonderful things happening in their life all the time.

When you meditate, you take charge of your life. You bring your conscious awareness to a new high point, where the vista is beyond any horizon.

Our current perception is very cloudy and all screwed up. As our perception increases through meditation, we're seeing life more correctly.

When you go into the planes of light, all of the incorrect ways of seeing and understanding life that you pick up are washed away.

You remember, you are drawn back to the pathway to enlightenment, to meditation, and when you begin to meditate your past life knowledge returns to you.

With the practice of meditation you can move into other states of mind, sort of ungluing the glue that binds you to a particular perceptual mode, a way of seeing life which is an illusory one.

As you meditate, you will discover, pleasantly, that you too can see beyond this life, that you can see your eternality.

When it comes time to die, you will not be afraid. By meditating, you will have already seen beyond life and death and you will see there is nothing to fear.

We are immortal life. Think of the opportunity of self-realization. What a gas!

The life of an unenlightened person is filled with suffering.

There is suffering and there is joy. Your life is very short, and then you're back again for another and another, forever, unless you step off the wheel.

Everybody here is so caught up in the game of life they don't see death. They don't see beyond their deaths. They are on the wheel of birth and death.

At the moment you're suffering from what we call Maya. Maya is illusion. Maya is a Sanskrit word that suggests that we have forgotten. We've forgotten the purpose of life.

When you see that you are not the body, that the body comprises only a small fraction of the aggregate of your awareness, then death is no fear, life is no fear, there is no fear.

Only one who has achieved immortality of awareness can laugh with life and laugh with death.

Enlightenment is a perfect state of mind. It is the direct seeing of reality. The world most people see, which they call life, is really just a dream.

You have to become that infinite formless creation, which is life, to know it. It cannot be known in an intellectual sense. That is enlightenment.

Enlightenment means that you're living fully, and it means that you die fully. And then you go beyond life and death completely, everything, nothing, all, and beyond all.

The day-to-day life we lead has nothing to do with enlightenment. It is just around the corner, and we don't see it.

If one is enlightened, one does not perceive life with North, South, East and West. There is no California, there is no New York. In a higher bonding state of attention, everything is fluid light.