Quotes About Enlightenment

The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection.

Spiritual awakening is the process of recognizing our essential goodness, our natural wisdom and compassion.

In the Buddhist tradition, one who has realized the fullness of compassion and lives from compassion is called a bodhisattva.

The Buddha uses the framework of the four noble truths to formulate this insight: the first truth, the truth of suffering, is the illness. The second truth, the truth of the origin of suffering, refers to the cause of the illness. The third truth, the truth of cessation, is the understanding that a complete cure is possible. And the fourth truth, the truth of the path that leads to cessation, is the cure.

As long as there is consciousness, these two potentials exist—the potential to become enlightened and the potential to suffer.

The antidote to such self-contempt is to develop a deep understanding of the buddha nature that we all possess, and see that nothing is impossible with perseverance.

It is, in effect, as though we forget who and what we most truly are, and thus must labor to remember ourselves and reintegrate ourselves to the state of the person of light who is united with divine being in the light-continuum.

We teach people in order to open up their minds and release their captive powers. But we cannot predict the result. Freedom - we free their minds from superstition. We give the people the keys of the future to act therein as they wish.

Comprendo la Palabra, y los medios por los que opera, y de esta forma me disuelvo

I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.

In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.

The advance of science spares us from irrational dread.

'Ray of Light' changed my life. The whole album, but that song specifically, was just so life-changing and incredible for me.

When your mind is fully withdrawn in superconsciousness, it becomes centered in the bliss of the spine. You are then in your ideational, or causal, body. That is the level of the soul.

She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.

Soul is the central point of spiritual discipline.

The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.

At the core, we're all spiritual beings.

The practice of being on a spiritual path isn't about being the best meditator or the kindest possible person or the most enlightened. The practice is about surrendering to love as often as possible.

Even before 'The OA,' I was a very spiritual person.

People don't realize I'm a very spiritual person.

I believe that meditation is the highest spiritual practice, the pathway to God.

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.