Quotes About Enlightenment

Only the free mind knows what Love is.

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

If you can grow in love, you will grow in awareness. If you grow in awareness, you will grow in love.

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

One can't reach the Truth but through Love.

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

He whom Love touches not walks in darkness.

When you transcend the transcendent states, you get past the ego structure, and at that point you don't need laws, you have "morality!" You have inborn, natural ethics, because it is built on Love.

God realization and self-realization are one and the same. God-realization is nothing but the ability and expansiveness of heart to love everything equally.

Enlightenment is the Goal - Love is the Game - Taking steps are the rules!

We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.

The only enlightened masters I know are the people that I see every day and the people that I've seen through my life who have had the understanding, at some level, that we're here to express love.

Although we all possess the seeds of great love and compassion, without the light of the enlightened one's wisdom and the waters of their compassion these seeds would never spout.

Love is the first step towards the divine, surrender is the last. And two steps is the whole journey.

Hate is the last refuge of the ignorant. Love is the medicine. Compassion is the gift of the awakened ones.

If we develop a good heart we will progress to true compassion, and awaken Bodhicitta. This is the way of the Buddha's method.

I call that person the most intelligent who sees the benevolence, the ascent and the ultimate goal.

Anything a man does can bring him closer to the Supreme Wisdom, as long as he works with Love in his heart.

If love and agreement are manifest in a single family, that family will advance, become illumined and spiritual.

Love is the state of enlightenment and enlightenment is the state of love. You can't make any separation between them. Enlightenment is the state of no feelings and pure knowledge and so is love.

I ask you only to stop imagining that you were born, have parents, are a body, will die and so on. Just try, make a beginning-it is not as hard as you think.

You know that you have fully experienced love when you turn into love - that is the spiritual goal of life.

As you learn to love the company of the holy, your heart will become pure.

Your wisdom then consists not of the knowledge you already have, but the continual search for knowledge, which is the highest form of wisdom.