Quotes About Enlightenment

Meditation is the only magic that can help you to be free from the mind, can help you to be free from yourself, your past and all the burden of the past.

[M]ental peace is not meditation. Meditation is the flight beyond the mind. It has nothing to do with mental peace.

To me the greatest problem with humanity is that they don't know anything of meditation.

In meditation you are not unconscious, you are conscious—more conscious than ever.

As meditation flowers, you find that on one hand truth has revealed to you all its mysteries and on the other blissfulness is showering all its treasures on you.

No armies are needed, no weapons are needed, no nations are needed, no religions are needed. All that is needed is a little meditativeness, a little silence, a little love, a little more humanity... just a little more, and existence will become fragrant with something so totally unique and new that you will have to find a new category for it.

Once you start drinking a little of meditativeness, a little of love, you start growing wings.

Meditation is not growth of the ego, it is death of the ego.

Passing through the fire of meditation, everything that is not your authentic reality, everything that is borrowed, will be burned away.

By and by... there are more and more gaps of silence. Through those gaps, windows will open to the divine.

Your love will deepen as your meditation deepens, and vice-versa: as your meditation blossoms, your love will also blossom.

Wisdom happens through meditation, and bliss also happens through meditation. Both the flowers bloom on the same branch.

If you want to possess things—money; if you want to possess yourself—meditation. And if you possess yourself, money loses all meaning.

Meditation, perhaps, is the only alchemy that can transform a beggar into an emperor.

Meditation is the way to individuality. It makes you a light unto yourself.

The process of meditation does not take you to some new world; it only introduces you to the world where you have been for lives upon lives. The process of meditation does not add anything to you; it only takes away what is wrong, cuts it away, sheds it off.

Love is the flowering of meditation. Meditation brings many treasures; perhaps love is the greatest roseflower that grows on the bush of meditation.

Arjuna, before understanding the Bhagavad-gita, was a fighter, and after understanding the Bhagavad-gita he remained a fighter.

when one is intelligent enough, one tries to find out the supreme cause of all causes - within and without.

The Bodhi Tree Grows in L.A.

When I knew a thing or two, pride kept me blind. I was a like a rutting buck, mind so stained I imagined "I'm a buddha." Then bit by bit I approached the truly wise-minded and saw myself a fool-- pride was a fever that finally broke.

Man is but a beast without it: such a glorious god is Learning.

Blinded by self-conceit and knowing nothing, Like elephant infatuate with passion, I thought within myself, I all things knew; But when by slow degrees I somewhat learnt By aid of wise preceptors, my conceit, Like some disease, passed off; and now I live In the plain sense of what a fool I am.

The tool the Buddha holds out to free the mind from desire is understanding.