Quotes About Enlightenment

Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.

You get there by realizing you are already there.

Those who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the Integral Oneness.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

Be strong, get beyond all superstitions, and be free.

Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.

Oh, if only you knew yourselves! You are souls; you are Gods. If ever I feel like blaspheming, it is when I call you man.

Elevate. Each day, live to elevate yourself, each day elevate one person. Make elevation your religion and you shall reach infinity.

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.

As long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from God, fear remains with us; but when we know ourselves to be the One, fear goes; of what can we be afraid.?

The power of thoughts is ecstasy

All paths are valid, but in the end you will find that the realization of the ultimate truth is a pathless path.

Being enlightened ironically means realizing that there is no separate entity that can be enlightened or unenlightened.

Looking forward" to what you think enlightenment might be at some grand point in the future keeps you from seeing the truth of its presence right now.

Not knowing anything, not searching for anything, understanding that we can't hold on to anything, leaves us with nothing — nothing except our original nature, pure awareness.

In enlightenment, the seer and the seen disappear. Or, more accurately, are seen through as illusions. In reality, they were never there, apart from being concept and misunderstanding.

When you use more than 3-5% of your brain, you don't want to be on Earth!"-Bob Diamond, Interdimensional Attorney, from the Albert Brooks' movie, Defending Your Life

Nirvana means to extinguish the burning fires of the Three Poisons: greed, anger, and ignorance. This can be accomplished by letting go of dissatisfaction.

The real aim of music is to co-ordinate the minds of the people into an intelligent reach for a better world and an intelligent approach to the living future.

When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.

Within the body there is played Music unending, though without stringed instruments That music of the Word pervades the entire creation Who listens to it is freed from all illusion

It was kind of sort of the heavens opened up and I realized that Bach, at least, you know - out of all the classical music - needs to be a big part of my life.

Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss[Sat-Chit-Ananda].

The witness of the three states of consciousness [waking, dream and deep sleep] and of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss is the Self