Quotes About Enlightenment

The time of our delusion does not obstruct the time of our realization. Our practice is not in order to attain realization. Practice itself is the actualization of realization.

To learn the way of the Buddha is to learn about oneself. To learn about oneself is to forget oneself. To forget oneself is to be enlightened by everything in the world. To be enlightened by everything in the world is to let fall one's own body and mind.

Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.

That the self advances and confirms the myriad things is called delusion. That the myriad things advance and confirm the self is enlightenment.

Handle a single leaf in such a way that it manifests the body of Buddha. This in turn allows Buddha to manifest through the leaf.

It has been said that once the mind has been expanded by an idea or concept, it can never return to its original way of thinking.

We will become beings of light also, if we will only allow our self to reject all that is not of this light.

I have found you can obtain much information from the spirit. But the quality of that information depends upon the evolution or development of that spirit.

I felt a long way from the pre-me, the pawn-Christian who was a Republican because my family was Republican, not because I had prayed and asked God to enlighten me about issues concerning the entire world rather than just America.

People do not want to be enlightened about you (get to know you more) unless they are curious about you (you have something that can help them survive), and until they are enlightened about how you can help them survive, they will never commit.

This is the process by which your customer begins to trust you. If curiosity is what gets us to pay attention to a brand, enlightenment invites us into a relationship. I'm not talking

Then you will take your customer through the enlightenment phase by creating lead generators and nurture emails.

his own world lived in constant discovery of its own ignorance.

The Cloud of Unknowing.

Clearly 'worry' was the mark of a primitive and spiritually unevolved person.

All right," said Julian, looking around the table. "I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime?

El que no sabe llevar su contabilidad Por espacio de tres mil años Se queda como un ignorante en la oscuridad Y sólo vive al día.

There's a difference between seeking the truth and being willfully ignorant,

Men may be born in dark places of the earth, like these wise men, and yet like them be made "wise unto salvation.

Long have we peered, crouching on the watch-tower of our minds, through the darkness of ignorance lit alone by the northern lights of folly, till our scorched eyes falling as slags upon our hearts, a light celestial hath arisen from out the eyeless sockets of Eternity. A daystar, to flash forth into the west, winged and wonderful. A Pharos of gleaming hope lighting our way across the boisterous ocean of life to our haven of eternal rest.

I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats.

The truth is the truth. You are better off knowing the truth than not knowing it.

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.