Quotes About Enlightenment

The watch is very old, purchased from a specialist dealer in a fortified arcade in Singapore. It is military ordnance. It speaks to the man of battles fought in another day. It reminds him that every battle will one day be as obscure, and that only the moment matters, matters absolutely. The enlightened warrior rides into battle as if to a loved one's funeral, and how could it be otherwise?

Allí, tumbado en la oscuridad, comprendió que era un desterrado. - Y solo por tener un poco de sentido común.

The social doctors enjoy the satisfaction of feeling themselves to be more moral or more enlightened than their fellow-men. They

Wisdom is seeing something in a non-habitual manner.

Freedom is only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

Thus Spake Zarathustra

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

The man who does not learn is dark, like one walking in the night.

Man awakened to the Self's Glory is God; God forgetful of His own glory is the deluded man!

M????kya? eka? kevala? mumuk?u??? vimuktaye).

Why was it that our holy men who made a big deal of giving up so many things—comfort, fame, family—couldn't seem to give up their tempers?

Child, the things you don't know would fill the milky ocean where Lord Vishnu sleeps - and spill over its edges.

One part of Krishna's conversation with Arjun I was unable to report. Arjun spoke of it later, though his disjointed words didn't make much sense. He said Krishna had appeared to him in the form of God.

If a guru is a highly developed clairvoyant, he would ask the student to sit down, and he would look into the crown chakra and into the mental permanent seed. Then he would read the past lives of the student.

the divine self) exists in everyone no matter how deeply it may be covered over by greed, anger, and foolishness, or buried by their own deeds and retribution; and when all defilements are removed, sooner or later, it will reappear.

Very beautiful situations have developed using chaos as part of the enlightened approach. There is chaos of all kinds developing all the time: psychological disorder, social disorder, metaphysical disorder, or physical disorder, constantly happening. If you are trying to stop those situations, you are looking for external means of liberating yourself, another answer. But if we are able to look into the basic situation, then chaos is the inspiration, confusion is the inspiration.

Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.

We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate action, the mahayana path.

In a sense, the rediscovery of the Nag Hammadi Library marks the resurrection of a more historical Jesus, an ecstatic rebel sage who preached enlightenment through rituals involving magical plants, and who is more analogous to the archetypal magician, than the pious ascetic and crucified savior that has come down to us through the Bible's New Testament.

Independent inquiry is essential in our search for truth. Each of us must strive to actively discern truth for ourselves rather than simply looking to or relying upon external authority figures to give it to us. If we allow another person or group to give us truth, or merely accept their truth as our own, we are depending on someone else for our spirituality, for our enlightenment, for our happiness, our success, etc.

Few ever found enlightenment in haste, and nobody will ever discover it in gibberish

Each river is different, but they all eventually lead to the ocean. No matter what we're doing or when, or whether it brings us happiness or remorse, gain or loss, we're all on our individual paths to enlightenment. Even when we've done something we consider wrong, we're still on our path to enlightenment.

Faith and belief have nothing in common; they are as different as darkness and light.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.