Quotes About Enlightenment

People say "I want peace." If you remove I (ego), and your want (desire), you are left with peace.

I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.

What creates happiness, peace, and balance is not becoming simply powerful, but knowledgeable.

To walk through walls go two steps slower in the vast conspiracy of ignorace.

Hare Krishna, Peace and Love

Don't give me the peace that passeth understanding, give me understanding.

I do not want the peace which pass-eth understanding I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

The way to Bliss is through Understanding, through Wisdom.

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love.

Acceptance is the vessel of realization.

Freedom will remain elusive as long as there remains a 'self' to be freed.

Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

Where the dance of Meera and the silence of Buddha meet, blossoms the true philosophy of Rajneesh.

Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws.

Zen professes itself to be the spirit of Buddhism, but in fact it is the spirit of all religions and philosophies.

All knowledge is worth having

As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.

A true philosopher is married to wisdom; he needs no other bride.

Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Turn away from your animal kind, try to leave your body, just to live in your mind.

What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.