Quotes About Enlightenment

Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens.

Evil is an extreme manifestation of human unconsciousness.

If there isn't an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment.

I love seeing the light go on in aspiring writers' eyes when you point out ways to improve their prose or their story - when they get it.

As your love grows, you will find that your attachment to this world will begin to fall away.

The final entrance into Nirvikalpa Samadhi, into nirvana, God-realization, when you become the absolutely best friend of God, can only come when your love is completely pure.

Thousands and thousands of incarnations and nothing to show for it. You must choose whether to follow the path of love or the path of attachment.

Love is something that we don't control. We have to be ourselves. You can be sexual, nonsexual, asexual, bisexual, or trisexual and it really doesn't have a lot to do with enlightenment.

Without enlightenment, everything in life is harsh. Sooner or later you see everyone you love die, unless you die first, of course. This causes you to suffer.

Enlightenment means that you're in love with all of life, with not only immortality but mortality.

There are four principal pathways that lead to enlightement: The yoga of love, the yoga of service, the yoga of knowledge, and the yoga of mysticism.

The path that is followed by most persons in the beginning of their spitirual search is the path of love, bhakti yoga.

In the yoga of love we learn to love consciousness. Consciousness is existence. It is the very stuff of which life is composed.

If one has an enlighened teacher and you come to this person with love, they will show you the ways of love.

To enlighten the world, let your light of love and kindness shine as bright as the morning sun.

There is no need to live in darkness.

If I could repeat it, people passing by would be enlightened and go free.

for in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength. It would be at once his sheath and his armour, and his weapons to destroy us, his enemies, who are willing to peril even our own souls for the safety of one we love—for the good of mankind, and for the honour and glory of God.

For in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.

For in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength. It would be at once his sheath and his armor, and his weapons to destroy us

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