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Quotes About Enlightenment

The gift of the Truth beats all other gifts. The flavour of the Truth beats all other tastes. The joy of the Truth beats all other joys, and the cessation of desire conquers all suffering
~ Gautama Buddha
Every expression of truth has in it the seeds of propagation, even as the sun cannot hide its light.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Oh happy he who still can hope in our day to breathe the truth while plunged in seas of error! What we don't know is really what we need, and what we know is of no use to us whatever!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Pray all the time, read all the scriptures in the world, and worship all the gods there are ...but unless you realize the Truth, there is no freedom.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Searching for the Truth through words and speech is like sticking your head in a bowl of glue.
~ Yuanwu Keqin
Look not for refuge to anyone beside yourself. Heed fast to the truth as a lamp.
~ Gautama Buddha
The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.
~ George Bernard Shaw
On every parable you ride to every truth.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Happy are those who have overcome their egos; happy are those who have attained peace; happy are those who have found the Truth.
~ Gautama Buddha
And, in order to possess the Truth, the plays of the lower nature must be stopped.
~ Sri Aurobindo
We do not progress from error to truth, but from truth to truth
~ Swami Vivekananda
In the space of no-mind, truth descends like light
~ Rajneesh
The words of truth are always paradoxical. To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
~ Laozi
In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Five hundred years ago a person in error was a person searching for the truth.
~ John H. Lienhard
The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves.
~ Pema Chodron
We have the possibility of being far removed from what we are, of beginning to taste it and feel it. That is direct knowledge. That is truth. Anything else is mere words.
~ Frederick Lenz
We do meditation, spiritual practices in this temporary body. Though this body is temporary, you have to use temporary things to realize the Truth.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
To realize truth, you must cross all boundaries of all religions and all prophets
~ Amit Ray
I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.
~ Anthony de Mello
Let us continue to improve until we are filled with the knowledge of the truth. We have yet much to learn.
~ Brigham Young
That's absolutely the truth, and that is exactly what the Pleiadians say, that we are going through what we would have done after we left the planet and remembered.
~ Christine McCormick Day
Who has magnificent self-confidence And fears nothing that exists? The man who has attained to truth And lives free of error.
~ Dalai Lama
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it
~ Denis Diderot