Quotes About Enlightenment

It is possible to contact higher beings who are not in the body. But the being you really want to contact is you.

Your mind is made up of light. We call it the dharmakaya, the clear light of reality. The transcendental eternal light is everywhere. It's the light of god or whatever you want to call it.

I teach meditation and the pathway to enlightenment because I know that there are other people who, like i did a long time ago and continue to, want to climb that mountain to the highest light.

It's very funny. People do not want to achieve liberation or be happy. This is the basic guideline they teach you in Spiritual Training School.

People love misery, they love to feel sorry for themselves, and they definitely don't want to be enlightened. That's the first thing they tell you at boot camp in the higher worlds.

Some people just chase the glittery stuff and they have no substance to their life whatsoever. Actually all they really want is power. But they pretend they're interested in enlightenment.

If you're a person who just wants to be in the world and doesn't want any knowledge, then I don't know what you are doing with this tape. Turn it off immediately.

Meditation is not for everybody. When you meditate you become conscious. Most people don't want to be too conscious because they are afraid of awareness, of death, and of being happy.

Some people meditate because they want to get the larger picture on life. It could get kind of discouraging if this was all there was.

True teachers of enlightenment are hard to find. The popular ones, of course, usually aren't enlightened because how could they be? They just tell people what they want to hear.

The only death I fear is dying ignorant.

Wisdom grows by stripping away beliefs, until the last tether is cut, and suddenly you float free.

Tattersail smiled. "The only death I fear is dying ignorant. No, is my answer.

Knowledge was no blessing; awareness was a disease that stained the entire spirit.

it is knowledge that makes one aware of his or her own chains.' 'Knowledge only makes the eyes see what was there all along

Thus, I die a wise man, not a fool. Is there any difference? I still die, after all. No, there is. I can feel it. That difference — I have cast off my chains. I have cast them off!

Psychotherapy/educational cults, which have enjoyed great popularity, purport to give the participant "insight" and "enlightenment." Commercial cults play on people's desires to make money. They typically promise riches but actually enslave people, and compel them to turn money over to the group. None of these destructive cults deliver what they promise and glittering dreams eventually turn out to be paths to psychological enslavement.

This man has conquered the world! What have you done?" The philosopher replied without an instant's hesitation, "I have conquered the need to conquer the world.

Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians

My perspective was all wrong. Self-centered. I had to learn, or unlearn my own importance. Only then, could I begin to see. Only then could Wraethru touch me.

I should have been with them, yes, part of them. I was meant to be part of them, but now I was there in my salon with the Lord of Light.

He felt as if he was on the brink of a vast understanding-he could almost feel its intense shine within his mind, and yet the meaning evaded him. The scintillant ideas burst like shimmering bubbles of glass even as his imagination encountered them.

Once he had spoken with the voice of Paraga, but now he was a vessel for all the elements. He was no longer human.

You are growing now, growing forth and your roots must spread until they touch the knowledge.