Quotes About Enlightenment

the purpose of life on earth is to achieve union with our fundamental, enlightened nature. The "task" for which the "king" has sent us into this strange, dark country is to realize and embody our true being.

The spiritual journey is one of continuous learning and purification.

we have to understand, the buddhas took one path and we took another. The buddhas recognize their original nature and become enlightened; we do not recognize that nature and so become confused.

To release means to release mind from its prison of grasping

The purpose of practice is not to increase knowledge but to scrape the scales off the eyes, to pull the plugs out of the ears.

Enlightenment... is the vivid, lively manifestation of the heart with which one is born--the heart that is no-form, no-mind, nonabiding, attached neither to form nor to thought, but in dynamic motion.

The figure of Shakyamuni Buddha lying on his side to die is known as the "nirvana figure.

I grow old learning something new every day.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

To be beyond yourself is the gate to wisdom.

Could there ever be a wise man without the wisdom or life or without the death of illusion?

Books are hindrances to persisting stupidity.

Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.

Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.

When reason died, then Wisdom was born.

When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.

The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.

But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.

Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom's face.

Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.

What is Meditation?' Excerpt from Meditation: God's Duty and Man's Beauty

When the power of love replaces the love of power, man will have a new name: God.

Man forgets. God forgives. Man forgets God's Truth. God forgives man's ignorance.