Quotes About Enlightenment

Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.

I just refer to myself as being Spirit, Mind and Body like everybody else and working toward the mastery of my natural divinity and the healing of my emotional mind.

Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives

Until you've reached that point where you've perfected your lower nature and cleansed your emotional being, jnana yoga will have to wait.

Morandi suggests we are all single in this world, hoping for independent repose. But our best opportunity for a community of excellence depends upon a collection of enlightened individuals.

We must die to become true human beings.

Zazen is the ultimate practice. This is indeed the True Self. The Buddhadharma is not to be sought outside of this.

Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.

That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening

In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all.

Don't ask the mind to confirm what is beyond the mind. Direct experience is the only valid confirmation.

Heaven is within us, and we experience it to the degree that we become conscious of it.

When you transform your mind, everything you experience is transformed.

Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening.

Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.

In the experience of yogins who do not perceive things dualistically, the fact that things manifest without truly existing is so amazing they burst into laughter

Enlightenment is any experience of expanding our consciousness beyond its present limits.

The less there is of you, the more you experience the sublime.

The Infinite Way is not a message, it is an experience.

the more naps you take, the more awakenings you experience.

Satori is a brief flash. Suddenly the light breaks through. For a short timeless time we experience eternity in its unmanifest form. It's comparable to salvikalpa samadhi.

When there is no thought in the mind, no thought of thought, when the mind is quiet but fully alert, we experience a little bit of enlightenment.

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.

Experience is the highest level of knowing.