Quotes About Enlightenment

He's a bad-ass, that Buddha is. Tear your nuts right off.

To use a medical analogy, while mystics try to heal themselves (that is, to transcend sleep), conventionally religious people simply try to manage the symptoms. Near-death

Where there is spirituality there is freedom, but religion is rigid. To be spiritual you have to step aside from the belief and go more into knowing, which gives you a greater freedom, including the freedom to question. Unless you question you're not going to get past the beliefs.

The goal of human life is to realize this oneness, and so to transcend separation, fear and even death.

Tattersail smiled. "The only death I fear is dying ignorant.

I shaved my hair. I wore robes. I slept on the floor. We meditated for four to eight hours a day.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

You don't get smarter by not learning stuff.

Every day, I get a little smarter.

If you're going to spend your time, spend your time getting smarter.

When my time ends, I want people to say, 'Man her music made me smile; it just enlightened my life; it inspired me; it made me feel good every time.'

I believe that the appearance of God the Father and His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, in 1820 to Joseph Smith unlocked the heavens not only to the great spiritual knowledge revealed in this dispensation but also to secular knowledge.

The case can be made that the introduction of caffeine to Europe in the seventeenth century fostered a new, more rational (and sober) way of thinking that helped give rise to the age of reason and the Enlightenment.

noetic quality. People feel they have been let in on a deep secret of the universe, and they cannot be shaken from that conviction.

ordained Zen monk

changing the course of history or, in a great many more cases, the course of their own lives. "No doubt" is the key. I can think of a couple of ways to account for such a phenomenon, neither entirely satisfying. The most straightforward and yet hardest to accept explanation is that it's simply true: the altered state of consciousness has opened the person up to a truth that the rest of us, imprisoned in ordinary waking consciousness, simply cannot see.

once described a spiritually "realized being" as simply a person with "an acute sense of the astonishing mystery of everything.

What sustains our eagerness to speak of sex in terms of repression is doubtless this opportunity to speak out against the powers that be, to utter truths and promise bliss, to link together enlightenment, liberation, and manifold pleasures; to pronounce a discourse that combines the fervor of knowledge, the determination to change the laws, and the longing for the garden of earthly delights.

It would be hypocritical or naïve to believe that the law was made for all in the name of all; that it would be more prudent to recognise that it was made for the few and that it was brought to bear upon the others; that in principle it applies to all citizens, but that it is addressed principally to the most numerous and least enlightened classes.

Imagine fish swimming in a shallow pond, just below the lily pads, thinking that their "universe" is only two-dimensional. Our three-dimensional world may be beyond their ken. But there is a way in which they can detect the presence of the third dimension. If it rains, they can clearly see the shadows of ripples traveling along the surface of the pond. Similarly, we cannot see the fifth dimension, but ripples in the fifth dimension appear to us as light.

Socrates, one of the greatest philosophers of all time, took his whole life to get to the point where he said, "As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

And he realized that everyone was dreaming, but without awareness, without knowing what they really are.

There is no truth to find.

We are on an eternal search for the truth because we only believe in the lies we have stored in our mind.