Quotes About Enlightenment

The foolish being who lives making even the slightest distinction between the supreme Self and his own self will always be subject to fear.

Even fear itself is frightened by the bodhisattva's fearlessness.

From craving arises sorrow, from craving arises fear, but he who is freed from craving has no sorrow and certainly no fear.

Remain alert about your blindness, about your fear, about your ignorance, and just your alertness will dispel the whole darkness of blindness, of fear, of ignorance.

As each layer of shadow is mined from the darkness, as each fear is faced and each projection reclaimed, the gold shines through.

Enlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave realizes it is water. At that moment, all fear of death disappears.

What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death?

Fear dims when you learn things.

A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear.

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.

Those who have known death from inside lose all fear of death.

The only death I fear is dying ignorant.

Fear is the start of wisdom.

Ignorance is the father of all fear.

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

Until egoism reaches the non-existent state, there is nothing but fear in the worldly life.

Only ego has fear. The Gnani Purush has no ego and so he has no fear of any kind.

When is one considered a vitarag (free of attachment)? It is when he has no fear of anything in this world.

What is the essence of Vitrag? Fearlessness!

View life as a continuous learning experience.

My function in life was to render clear what was already blindingly conspicuous

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isnt it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am askedas I am surprisingly oftenwhy I bother to get up in the mornings.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Life is suffering.