Quotes About Enlightenment

By perfecting the practices of zazen and mindfulness, by learning patience and love and by realizing the essential emptiness of all phenomena, you will discover nirvana.

No nation can truly develop unless fanaticism, primitive superstitions and metaphysical non-sense are eradicated.

Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.

Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.

The person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is.

You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything else. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find Peace.

The Buddha's dharma didn't teach peace and relaxation; it taught awakening—often rude awakening.

The kingdom of God is just behind the darkness of closed eyes, and the first gate that opens to it is your peace.

Through the portals of silence the healing sun of wisdom and peace will shine upon you.

The fundamental goal of Buddhism is the realization of the peace and happiness of humankind.

Do not blindly believe what others say. See for yourself what brings contentment, clarity and peace. That is the path for you to follow.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices.

Enlightenment, peace, and joy will not be granted by someone else. The well is within us, And if we dig deeply in the present moment, The water will spring forth.

If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you. The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe would appear on the mirror of your perception.

Blessed is the one who has arrived at infinite ignorance.

The true, or higher part of the self is always seeking the state that mystics talk about, the state in which we are filled with a universal love and a peaceful euphoria.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism.

If the selflessness of phenomena is analyzed and if this analysis is cultivated, it causes the effect of attaining nirvana. through no other cause does one come to peace.

When you understand the roots of anger in yourself and in the other, your mind will enjoy true peace, joy and lightness

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

My mother always used to say, 'There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.