Quotes About Enlightenment

No great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow.

The truth can't hurt you, it's just like the dark. It scares you witless, but in time you see things clear and stark.

When the Christ says I: it is the I of all the Masters: the Way, the Truth, the Life

A Buddhist monk has a responsibility first and foremost to themselves, and that's to find the truth each day in every part of their life.

The most noble of all pursuits is to be enlightened, to know truth, to have knowledge and yet be beyond even truth and knowledge, to be God.

Most people don't care much about enlightenment and the truth. They'd rather watch the Home Shopping Network, and maybe that's another kind of truth.

We have ideas of God and nirvana or truth or enlightenment. These ideas will go away in nirvana because the suffusion is so complete and intense that nothing can be remembered.

The ultimate horror movie for a really un-illuminated being is an enlightened person. They are scared of others seeing what they are all about and what they really do. They are scared of truth.

It is only in Samadhi that you'll begin to get an inkling of who you are; and finally, it is only in nirvana that this perfect truth will become clear.

It came to me that I should teach this truth for it is real happiness and joy. The cessation of suffering is possible.

The best thing you can give is God consciousness. Manifest your own divinity first. The truth is there. It's right within us all. Understand what you are.

You go on being reincarnated until you reach the actual Truth. Heaven and Hell are just a state of mind. We are all here to become Christ-like. The actual world is an illusion.

Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars.

Life is a lie if you do not find the eternal truth.

Only when you stop identifying yourself with things that are not you, the possibility of knowing the nature of your existence arises.

I think it's time they knew the truth about Beethoven.

A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.

The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust.

Without living Truth, God is nowhere.

If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth, you must reduce yourself to a zero.

The devotee of truth is often obliged to grope in the dark.

Freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth.