Quotes About Enlightenment

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light.

People travel because it teaches them things they could learn no other way.

The best education I have ever received was through travel.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

I am in a very peculiar business: I travel all over the world telling people what they should already know.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend.

When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego ... things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.

India will reveal to you the places in your heart that must be purified.

As we go deeper and deeper into the world of meditation, we are able to travel along the luminous bands, just like you travel along a highway or road.

The fruit of love's great tree is poverty; Whoever knows this knows humility.

There is no Bodhi tree, Nor stand of a mirror bright. Since all is void, Where can the dust alight

How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!

The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening

Handle even a single leaf of green in such a way that it manifests the body of the Buddha. This in turn allows the Buddha to manifest through the leaf.

Trees are good for contemplation. Plato and Aristotle did their best thinking in the groves of olives and figs around Athens, and Buddha found enlightenment beneath a bo or peepul tree.

There is no whit less enlightenment under the tree by your street than there was under the Buddha's bo tree. I invite you to go sit under that tree by your street.

The savor of wandering in the ocean of deathless life has rid me of all my asking: As the tree is in the seed, so all diseases are in this asking.

The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a True Human Being.

The way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust, and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice.

Who has that perfect faith and trust? Only such a person with that faith and trust can be enlightened.

The path that leads to truth is littered with the bodies of the ignorant.

Be quiet in your mind, quiet in your senses, and also quiet in your body. Then, when all these are quiet, don't do anything. In that state truth will reveal itself to you.

I tell the truth; listen everyone. Only those who have Loved, will realise the Lord