Quotes About Enlightenment

The world was simply and sheerly divided into 'the aware', those who had the experience of being vessels of the divine, and a great mass of 'the unaware', 'the unmusical', 'the unattuned.

The actual experience of awakening can only be in the present moment.

I have gone from "being" my experience to being infinite consciousness having the experience and observing the experience.

Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.

Only alone can you go into eternity. Only alone can you feel the transcendental light. It is not a shared experience because if it is shared, you are down in duality.

You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give you the impetus to meditate.

What is revealed through the psychedelic experience, I think, is a higher dimensional perspective on reality. And I use 'higher dimensional' in the mathematical sense.

That is the ultimate synthesis - when Zorba becomes a Buddha. I am trying to create here not Zorba the Greek but Zorba the Buddha.

It's just plain learning something that you didn't know. There is a real aesthetic experience in being dumbfounded.

Spirituality is a kind of virgin wisdom, a knowing that comes prior to experience.

In order to experience the Ultimate Reality you have to be out of your mind.

who accompany ignorants, lives in misery.

People often remain in the dark, not due to lack of light but of failure to open their eyes.

Any attempt at liberation, no matter how great it might be, if it does not take into consideration the necessity of dissolving the ego, it is condemned to failure.

The light of faith makes us see what we believe.

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.

Logic is the key to an all-inclusive spiritual well-being.

This is also the age of science and technology in which human beings have progressed beyond the stage of blind faith.

Wish I am free from barriers when I die, and Buddha will welcome me from far away.

Faith, consciousness, and awareness all exist beyond the thinking mind.

Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith.

O Lord open our eyes to see the wonders of your holy word.

When you're tangled up in confusion, there's a good chance you're busy unraveling the truth.