Quotes About Enlightenment

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On the sixth day, Jared and the rest of the 8th finally figured out what that sex thing was all about. On the seventh day, and as a direct consequence of the sixth day, they rested.

The only people who cling to tradition at the expense of real people are sad, angry dwellers in the darkness who don't even understand how pathetic they are, clutching and grasping at the things they remember without ever understanding that the world was never that simple to begin with. The future is bright, it is shining, and it belongs to everyone.

A man who can do everything fully consciously becomes a luminous phenomenon.

Thus arises suffering—from our ignorance of the truth of life and our refusal to accept that truth. Our

The Art of Peace is medicine for a sick world. We want to cure the world of the sickness of violence, malcontent, and discord—this is the Way of Harmony. There is evil and disorder in the world because people have forgotten that all things emanate from one source. Return to that source and leave behind all self-centered thoughts, petty desires, and anger. Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.

There is evil and disorder in the world because people have forgotten that all things emanate from one source. Return to that source and leave behind all self-centered thoughts, petty desires, and anger. Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.

Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the highest peak, and the deepest ocean, empty of all limiting thoughts.

Faith does not imply a closed, but an open mind. Quite the opposite of blindness, faith appreciates the vast spiritual realities that materialist overlook by getting trapped in the purely physical.

Walking toward the light. None of us lives in the light; we can only walk toward it, with the eyes and legs God has given us.

If I am through learning, I am through.

Socrates was famous in Athens for saying, "Know thyself." It is said that one of his students said to him: "Socrates, you go around saying 'Know thyself,' but do you know yourself?" Socrates was said to have replied, "No, but I understand something about this not knowing.

the true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and sense in which he has attained liberation from the self." Einstein

Simply put, meditation is the path to clarity, compassion, and a path of wisdom leading to the eradication of suffering.

When we identify ourselves with a permanent, solid "self," it is a delusion of consciousness, a form of self-imprisonment, according to Einstein. Elsewhere he wrote that "the true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and sense in which he has attained liberation from the self.

Le mot bouddha signifie celui ou celle qui s'est éveillé à sa propre nature.

In fact, the word "Buddha" simply means one who has awakened to his or her own true nature.

It's possible to be completely enlightened... except with your family.

Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.

You ask 'Are you a man or a demon?' Neither, I say. I have woken up, and the rest of you are sleeping, and that is the only difference between us.

Jesus brooded upon the Divine imminence until at last he could declare, 'I and my Father are One.'

Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.

Give up bondage; become a son, be free, and then you can "see the Father", as did Jesus.

To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing.