Quotes About Enlightenment

I personally, only work with people in my business who show excellence. I have a business, the business of enlightenment.

I am a teacher because teaching allows me to observe the universe at work, that moment when wakefulness suddenly occurs.

Tantra is not for a hedonist at all. It won't work. If you're heavily attracted to sensual experiences, tantra will definitely not be of any use to you.

Alow immortality to work through you. Be but a mere instrument. And that instrument should be so absorbed in the perfect perfection of existence, that it knows not even that it is absorbed.

Eventually you're supposed to get so confounded by this whole thing that you just give up completely, and that's when it starts to work. Not give up the practice, but give up trying to figure it out.

If you work an extra ten hours to help spread the dharma, this will cause for much faster progression. You're doing something for a higher cause, for a higher ideal.

Enlightened teachers and people who help them, have a lot of trouble. People try to interfere with the work and spread awful rumors about you.

Nonphysical beings are drawn to enlightened beings. Some come to aid them in there work; some come to interfere. Some just come to watch. Enlightenment is rare in this world.

I don't work with men who are antagonistic to the liberation of women. I do work with quite a number of men who are supportive of the enlightenment of women. Such men are rare.

You have to do your own work; Enlightened Ones will only show the way. Those who practise meditation will free themselves from the chains of death

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

We live in this world in order always to learn industriously and to enlighten each other by means of discussion and to strive vigorously to promote the progress of science and the fine arts.

Today, my heart and soul lives peacefully for the hope that the 21st century will have to face a great challenge, a peaceful struggle for the enlightenment of humanity.

We live in the age of entitlement, as opposed to enlightenment.

The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

Every religion or every philosophy is an outcome of the human search for liberation.

'To Kill a Mockingbird' was so important because it was such adult film-making - to see something that dealt with such an important issue and had such an enlightened outlook on the world.

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

I wasn't overwhelmed by dogma, and that sort of freed me up to look at things differently.

An old Buddhist saying: BELIEVE nothing because it is said to be of divine origin. BELIEVE nothing because a wise man said it. BELIEVE nothing because its belief is generally held. BELIEVE nothing because it is written in ancient books. BELIEVE nothing because someone else believes it. BUT believe only what you yourself know to be true.