Quotes About Enlightenment

Into eternity, where all is one, there crept a tiny, mad idea, at which the Son of God remembered not to laugh."8

With no surroundings there can be no path, and with no path one cannot become free.

Within a few generations, all humans will be multisensory. They will experience not only the domain of space, time, matter, and duality that has been the totality of experience for most humans since the origin of humanity, but also nonphysical domains and dynamics that affect us and that we affect.

What is truth? Truth is that which does not contaminate you, but empowers you. Therefore, there are degrees of truth, but, generically, truth is that which can do no harm. It cannot harm.

When a question is asked that cannot be answered within the common frame of reference, it can be classified as nonsensical, or it can be dismissed as a question that is not appropriate, or the person who is asking the question can expand his or her consciousness to encompass a frame of reference from which the question can be answered.

Truth is that which does not contaminate you, but empowers you. Therefore, there are degrees of truth, but, generically, truth is that which can do no harm. It cannot harm.

Rather than continuing to seek the truth, simply let go of your views.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.

No one saves us but ourselves, no one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path but Buddhas clearly show the way.

The darkest night is ignorance.

A life of chastity ... is the road that leadeth to Nirvana.

By the destruction of his Cravings, This monk hath extinguished Hunger, and hath attained Nirvana.

The man that is dominated by Anger Doth not know what is seemly and seeth not the Law; That man whom Hate doth accompany, Becometh like unto murky darkness.

Whatsoever misfortunes there are Here in this world or in the next, They all have their root in Ignorance And in the accumulation of Longing and Desire.

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

It is like a lighted torch whose flame can be distributed to ever so many other torches which people may bring along; and therewith they will cook food and dispel darkness, while the original torch itself remains burning ever the same. It is even so with the bliss of the Way. [Sutra of 42 Sections]

The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.

Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice.

A rich man's wealth is not in the amount of lands and materials he holds, but in the measure of his consciousness.

Transcendence and dissolution, always the same thing.

Only in the boundaries of a loving Creator can humanity be free. Is a fish out of the water free? Is a bird out of the sky free? Only in fulfilling our god-given purpose can mankind experience the liberty of obedience. Disobedience is not enlightenment, it is pure blindness; it is not freedom, it is slavery.

Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding...

In the words of Meister Eckhart, "Cease to be this or that, and to have this and that, then you are all things and have all things, and so, being neither here nor there, you are everywhere…you are everything…what remains is nothing but God."40 In the end, says St. Paul, we become one with the risen, cosmic body of Christ, "the fullness of the one who fills all in all" (Eph. 1:23).