Quotes About Enlightenment

Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.

The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning, but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel.

To know, but to be as though not knowing, is the height of wisdom.

True mastery transcends any particular art. It stems from mastery of oneself--the ability, developed through self-discipline, to be calm, fully aware, and completely in tune with oneself and the surroundings. Then, and only then, can a person know himself.

The key to liberation is within. — Each man binds himself; the fetters are ignorance, laziness, preoccupation with self, and fear. He must liberate himself, while accepting the fact that we are of this world, so that "In summer we sweat; in winter we shiver.

Zen insists that the whole trouble is just our failure to realize that there is no problem.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

education is what makes a man free!

Do you remember, Abelard.… Once I told you that ecstasy was better than being God." "I remember." "I was wrong, darling. Being God is better.

Education can be glorious. At its best, to quote Roman philosopher Lucretius, it is a "voyage in mind throughout infinity.

In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.

All things are accomplished by the meditative act of releasing illusions and simply becoming.

A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom

I am the miracle.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Again a different meaning has to be understood.

There is no wealth like knowledge, and no poverty like ignorance.

Whatever is subject to origination is all subject to cessation.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to the Truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the Truth as their refuge, they shall reach the topmost height.

You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself