Quotes About Enlightenment

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you. —Friedrich Nietzsche

You do not see anything when you experience pure consciousness; you become everything.

The greatest evil in our country today is...ignorance...We need to be taught to study rather than to believe.

The work of a lifetime, the process of individuation, is widening of that spotlight so much that everything is illuminated and you are conscious of and can see your All.

O societate dematerializata este o societate respiritualizata.

What he found were "a few brilliant beacons in a fog of fools.

The Great Way has no gate. Clear water has no taste. The tongue has no bone. In complete stillness, a stone girl is dancing.

Zen means putting it all down, cutting off all thinking, and returning to your pure and clear original nature.

The practice of Zen never explains anything. Zen simply points directly at our mind, our true self, so that we can directly attain enlightenment and help all beings. So

In your mind there is a diamond sword. If you want to understand yourself, take it and cut off good and bad, long and short, coming and going, high and low, God and Buddha. Cut off all things.

Now this process, which requires death to our "selves" and the piercing of the walls of our ego to penetrate into our heart, is not possible without the spiritual master, who already knows what it means to be fully human and who has realized this knowledge himself or herself through journeying across the mountains and valleys of microcosmic existence to reach the One.

I understand, better than ever now, that "living in the light" involves traveling into the darker places within ourselves and shining the light of our consciousness into them so that we can truly love and express all that we are.

Almost any form of meditation will eventually take you to an experience of your spiritual source, or your higher self.

The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be.

When I was a child, I saw God, I saw angels; I watched the mysteries of the higher and lower worlds. I thought all men saw the same. At last I realized that they did not see.…

We wear our lives Like costumes Use bills and coins like props In an over budget production That we cannot seem to stop So it just goes on like this As if we accept this As if we've all become Buddhas of mass production Our brains rotting Like teeth Under the sweet Unending bliss of false enlightenment.

I'm not fascinated by one particular case, but by knowledge that I had no idea was out there.

What need is there to say more? The childish work for their own benefit, The Buddhas work for the benefit of others. Just look at the difference between them. If I do not exchange my happiness, for the suffering of others, I shall not attain the state of Buddhahood. And even in Samsara I shall have no real joy. The source of all misery in the world lies in thinking of oneself; The source of all happiness lies in thinking of others.

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Now I come to look at love in a new way, now that I know I'm not standing in its light.

A democracy depends upon people getting brighter all the time. Democracies are delicate. They're not just ipso facto and just go on and on.

When you are no more, only then for the first time will you be.

That's the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being.

Die! Die to the ego, die to your past, and you will be resurrected. That resurrection will make you go beyond death, beyond time, beyond misery.