Quotes About Enlightenment

You're going to go to stillness. When that happens, the world collapses. There is no time, no space, no viewer, no viewing, no object in view.

Practicing zazen and mindfulness constantly and correctly, over a period of time, can bring strength and clarity to your finite mind and eventually give you access to your infinite mind.

The perceptual body that you are at the time of death ceases to be. It is not structured quite so tightly.

From the point of view of enlightenment, none of this has ever even been. All time and space, all the conditions that are apparent in the absence of enlightenment are unreal.

Samadhi is the absorption of God. There's no sense of time, place or condition.

Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness.

It is high time that we had lights that are not incendiary torches.

Many people [still] believe that at the time of your death, 1,000 Buddhas show up and welcome you into the paradise state.

The time has come for us to envision ourselves as spiritual beings of light and love.

The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three.

I love feeling that I am opening new worlds for people who don't have time to investigate these things themselves.

Bring forth a spiritual idea that will never fade.

so many people who think they know only know what they don't know, as time passes by, they may get to know what they don't know and then they will know

An enlightened thinker does not waste his precious time thinking about what others think of what he thinks.

Parsifal is on his way to the temple of the Grail Knights and says: "I hardly move, yet far I seem to have come", and the all-knowing Gurnemanz replies: "You see, my son, time turns here into space

Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.

When body, breath, and mind work together in harmony to achieve a spiritual goal, that is yoga.

Begin with bodhicitta, do the main practice without concepts,Conclude by dedicating the merit. These, together and complete,Are the three vital supports for progressing on the path to liberation.

The greatest human ideal is the great cause of bringing together the thoughts of Europe and Asia; the great soul of India will topple our world.

wisdom begins when you discover the difference between 'That doesn't make sense' and 'I don't understand.' Ã¢â'¬Â "Then I must be very wisdom. I don't understand anything.

because individualism is giving us real difficulties today. Although it is a guiding ideal for our age, accepted as a main achievement of the Enlightenment, it takes many different forms.

But the palace of knowledge is different from the palace of discovery, in which I am, truly, a Copernicus.

I have wrestled with the angel and I am stained with light and I have no shame.

Knowledge, I suppose, blocked the gates of vision.