Quotes About Enlightenment

Dissolving the name is awareness. Dissolving the form is meditation. The world is name and form. Bliss transcends name and form. Bangalore Ashram, India September 24, 1997

This Truth has to be realized here and now, in this lifetime. Do not postpone it until the next lifetime. If you do not know it this lifetime, it is the greatest loss. There cannot be any greater loss than this. This is the greatest loss imaginable.

Your head will be in the mud in a few years. Don't put mud in your head while you are still alive.

Dvityadvai bhayam bhavati which means, Fear is the result of duality.

At night a hooded monk passed by where there were no lamps. I could not see his face. I only heard these words he kept repeating: "Teach me, dear Lord, all that you know." I knew instantly a great treasure had entered my soul.

That name--my conception of Him--extended to me a hand that led to a place where even His divine name could not exist. Why?

Blindness itself commends the excellence of sight.

Press on where truth begins to dawn.

It is Wisdom, Wisdom's self which gleameth through me; severing my cloudiness which yet again mantles over me, fainting from it, through the darkness which for my punishment gathers upon me.

It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

the potential for a mystical experience is the natural birthright of all human beings

But if you're serious about the path to enlightenment and lucrative stock options, go quietly with us in the noise and haste as we take a look at our lives and ask the one pertinent question for those who wish to conquer the twenty-first century: "What would Machiavelli do?" Answer? He would play to win.

Bir kez kendini bulmuÅŸ olan kiÅŸinin bu yeryüzünde yitirecek bir ÅŸeyi yoktur art?k. Ve bir kez kendi içindeki insan? anlam?? olan bütün insanlar? anlar.

Bir insan kendisini bulduktan sonra, onun bu dünyada kaybedebileceÄŸi hiçbir ÅŸey yoktur. Ve o kiÅŸi kendi içindeki insanl??? anlad?ktan sonra, bütün insanlar? anlayacakt?r.

To free oneself from fear and hope, belief and superstition. To be free of convictions and parties.

don't understand

Die Menschheit werde lernen, meinte er. Sie lerne etwas langsamer, als er angenommen habe. "Es liegt daran, daß die Tüchtigen ständig versuchen, das wenige von der Welt zu verändern, was sie kennen. Eines Tages werden sie die Welt entdecken, statt sie zu verbessern. Und nicht mehr vergessen, was sie schon entdeckt haben.

long as a person will not raise his or her consciousness beyond the physical world to higher, spiritual realities, the soul's enslavement in darkness—whether darkness in the outer, physical world or in

Gnostics (and Buddhists) have often been labeled pessimists and world haters because of their willingness to look the dark face of the world in the eye. Yet, both of these traditions affirm that there is a way out of suffering and ignorance, and that this way out involves an essential, salvific change in consciousness.

implications of gnosis: What makes us free is the gnosis of who we were of what we have become of where we were of wherein we have been cast of whereto we are hastening of what we are being freed of what birth really is of what rebirth really is. (Excerpta de Theodoto)

To sum up, salvation to the Gnostic means not reconciliation with an angry God by way of the death of his son, but rather liberation from the stupor induced by earthly existence and an awakening by way of gnosis.

Your spirit already thinks 'outside of the box'. It's called intuition. Your body just needs to catch up and open its eye(lid).