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Quotes About Enlightenment

Like vanishing dew, a passing apparition or the sudden flash of lightning -- already gone -- thus should one regard one's self.
~ Ikkyu
Many paths lead from the foot of the mountain, but at the peak we all gaze at the single bright moon.
~ Ikkyu
the wise know nothing at all well maybe one song
~ Ikkyu
all koans just lead you on but not the delicious pussy of the young girls I go down on
~ Ikkyu
When we are aware that we are eternal beings, when we become enlightened to the fact that our life is something eternal that cannot be harmed by anything, then we have no attachments to the past of anxiety about the future and are able to focus on the present moment the now.
~ Ilchi Lee
Everyone has it To know what it is. Take a journey deep within And open your eyes wide. Then you will see everything.
~ Ilchi Lee
Colliding with the bright light Of my true self, My illusions scream loudly, Themselves illusions Created by other illusions, Finally knowing that Deep within me Beneath the shell Lies the sacred beauty Of my true self.
~ Ilchi Lee
It is time for us to open our eyes. It is time for us to awaken to new possibilities and make them real. It is time for us to awaken our dormant spirituality-first as individuals, then as whole nations, and finally as the whole of humanity-and raise up our collective consciousness. -Healing Society: A Prescription for Global Enlightenment
~ Ilchi Lee
Dahnhak is not a way to gain enlightenment, but a way to actualize enlightenment. Dahnhak is a way to train yourself so that you can actualize the choices you have already made based on your enlightenment.
~ Ilchi Lee
What is enlightenment? In the Korean tradition of Tao, it is known a Mu-Ah (Mu means "No" or "Nothing" and Ah means "Me"). It is no-me-ness, or egoless-ness. It means realizing the true, unchanging nature of the person you happen to be.
~ Ilchi Lee
The essence of enlightenment … is a big understanding, which gives you a deep and wide perspective to see the world as a whole, and a capacity to accept with compassion all that is. 11/26
~ Ilchi Lee
The ancient teaching of Tao tells us that knowing what you really are is wisdom, and living it is virtue.
~ Ilchi Lee
The primary aim of an Enlightenment is to make peope realize their potential for enlightenment. That enlightenment is not for the selected few. That enlightenment can occur in everday life. That mass enlgihtement is the only way to slove today's widespread ills. But mass enlightenment starts with the individuals
~ Ilchi Lee
In lumine Tuo videbimus lumen, in Thy light we shall see the light
~ Unknown
As soon as we realise our primitivity, the world can progress to true greatness.
~ Unknown
Beyond that which we know is the place of pure answer.
~ Unknown
Don't be blinded by the lights of the world.
~ Unknown
He is here to show the worlds of The Cosmos the philosophy of the stars.
~ Unknown
Let philosophy be the light shining through the cloak of darkness that presently covers the world.
~ Unknown
The superior way of learnedness is to teach oneself of the world.
~ Unknown
The widest view is the clearest.
~ Unknown
The world has yet to know…
~ Unknown
There was an enlightenment in my mind, and too now, enlighten the world will I.
~ Unknown
To have knowledge is to have freedom.
~ Unknown