Quotes About Enlightenment

She was a very old soul, which meant that her life was driven by love and not ego.

I'm not quite sure if he's talking to me or to himself, but every word he says feels like a drop of Wise Potion. I want to hear more. I want him to tell me all the answers to life.

Alas! how terrible it is to know, Where no good comes of knowing!

Ah! terrible is knowledge to the man Whom knowledge profits not.

Well, I will start afresh and once again Make dark things clear.

never should have seen, blind to the ones you longed to see, to know! Blind from this hour on! Blind in the darkness—blind!

Ymmärrä, ettei yksikään kuolevaisista osaa nähdä silmillään.

Ai— now I can see it all, clear as day.

Blessed is he who believes in the illusion because thus he can find his great truth!

Knowledge's surest logic is the lack of knowledge.

Only he who crosses the stream of life wishes to know what is known as unknowable.

There are realms of life where the concepts of sense and nonsense do not apply.

Each step along the Buddha's path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life.

And with joy you realize for the first time "Thinking's just like not thinking — So I don't have to think any more".

When you open up to awareness, it frees up your whole life.

Whether or not enlightenment is possible at the moment of death, the practices that prepare one for this possibility also bring one closer to the bone of life.

At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights of the past.

May all that have life be delivered from suffering

Hope to sin only in the service of waking up.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

I believe that art has been a vehicle for me that's been about enlightenment and expanding my own parameters, to give me courage to exercise the freedom that I have in life.

When you realize your purpose, it brings understanding deep within you

The only way a man can realise his freedom, its only when he has freed his mind. Therefore, freedom means nothing if the mind is still not free. Free your mind and it will free your life too.

Whoever sees the light shall never walk in darkness.