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Quotes About Enlightenment

The world knows caterpillar becomes butterfly but they don't care that it also becomes a moth. One is diurnal another nocturnal.Human once awakened can change the view to change self from Angulimala to a Buddha
~ Milarepa
I trained my spirit in method.
~ Milarepa
When one comes to the essence of being, The shining wisdom of reality Illumines all like the cloudless sky.
~ Milarepa
El conocimiento, el saber, es libertad, mientras que la ignorancia es esclavitud, y yo, simplemente, no podía creer que alguien estuviera tan cerca de la libertad y no se aprovechase de su buena suerte. Es
~ Miles Davis
Above all, he believed that a man must learn constantly.
~ Min Jin Lee
A good master leads you to the true master within. Only that master, who is your own higher self, can adequately answer all questions.
~ Ming-Dao Deng
Why is it so hard to find liberation? Because our own minds are the source of our difficulties. Eliminate desire, accept personal shortcomings, and work toward a patient elimination of the mind's own hunger for outward satisfaction.
~ Ming-Dao Deng
Spirituality is creativity. Only with creativity can you remold your personality into a spiritual vehicle.
~ Ming-Dao Deng
A true master is indifferent to the ways of society.
~ Ming-Dao Deng
Our subjectivity is a mirrored, spiked casket. When will we see that all we have done is surround ourselves with our own illusions? Only when we realize our true nature does the casket disappear.
~ Ming-Dao Deng
Followers of Tao therefore do not emphasize enlightenment as an ultimate goal. For them, realization is a means, not an end. Their emphasis is on the act of living. They use the word longevity, not because they want to live forever, but because it symbolizes their determination to live the entire course of their lives well.
~ Ming-Dao Deng
A strong perspective is the root of wisdom.
~ Ming-Dao Deng
Budist? ?sitikinimu, vyras ir moteris turi tobul?ti t?kstant? met?, tik tada juodu sudarys karm?,leidžian?i? pad?ti galvas ant tos pa?ios pagalv?s.
~ Unknown
Beautiful is what we see. More beautiful is what we understand. Most beautiful is what we do comprehend.
~ Unknown
tradition is the guru, the person who turns darkness (gu) into light (ru). The guru, in other words, is a teacher.
~ Mira Kirshenbaum
A jeweler could meditate by envisioning that everything is as pure and radiant as shimmering gold; a winemaker might picture herself as distilling bliss from the grapes of experience; a shoemaker could imagine that he was sewing the leather of passion with the thread of freedom to produce shoes of enlightenment.
~ Unknown
When the secret of truth is found, falsehood is thrown on its back on the ground.
~ Unknown
No sleeper whom you have wakened, None downcast whom you have roused, None whose shut mouth you have opened, None ignorant whom you gave knowledge. None foolish whom you have taught.
~ Unknown
Never fear. The path to wisdom is illuminated.
~ Unknown
Our eternal reward forgives us at the palace of wisdom.
~ Unknown
Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
~ Unknown
The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself.
~ Unknown
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
~ Unknown
Ah! What a fine thing it is to know something!
~ Moliere