Quotes About Enlightenment

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.

The world will probably not look brighter after we've eaten, but we'll be able to see in the dark better." She

The bodhicitta (spirit of enlightenment) starts arising when one sees what a mess we are all in. One can't begin to see that until one is a little way out of the mess oneself.

The Enlightened person is like a clear window through which the light of reality shines, through which that light can be seen almost as it is. Or one can say that he or she is like a crystal or diamond concentrating and reflecting that light.

The wisdom of the Tath?gata is not to be measured by the yardstick of human intelligence, nor limited by the cravings of the human heart.

The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance is destroyed, spirit shine forth, like the sun when released from clouds.

The moment you realize yourself as the dreamer and the world as your own dream, you will attain salvation.

The moment you stop seeking pleasure in worldly things and become a true master of yourself, you will experience the essential reality of the Self. Then you will no longer have to seek God. God himself will come to you. This is the Divine law.

The person who does not see, hear or know anything other than the True Self is all-pervading. As long as you perceive things other than your Self, and consider those entities to be real, you will remain limited and finite, not infinite and eternal.

not one girl I think who looks on the light of the sun will ever have wisdom like this

Even the wise need wisdom.

To let go of the self is the highest calling of the self, something that few achieve. And something that every self, whether she knows it or not, aspires

So the guru goes up to the hot dog guy. Hot dog guy says, 'What can I get you?' "And the guru says, 'Make me one. With everything.'

In short, you can't have the truths without the Truth. Either Jesus is telling the truth about Himself, or He is lying about everything else too. None of this business about Jesus being merely an enlightened Buddha of sorts, offering wiser-than-average insights into how to live a healthy, balanced life. None of this quoting Jesus in order to make your own point about justice or fairness or peace on earth when you don't really believe what Jesus said about Himself.

Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.

I enjoy spending time with other awakened people and feeling the shared vibration of that, whereas just fun for its own sake might no longer be quite so enticing as it used to be.

I was so full of sleep at the time that I left the true way.

The holy man is beyond time, he does not depend on any view nor subscribe to any sect; all current theories he understands, but he remains unattached to any of them.

Spiritually, it's always there. It gets better and better all the time. One of these days I'll just finally release all that out.

The only time and place to find enlightenment is in this moment. No need to check your watch. The time is now.

Who ignores the time walks in darkness, and who explores it is illumined by a great light.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.

I know of no condition worse than that of the man who has little or no light on the supreme religious questions, and who at the same time is making no effort to come to the light.