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Quotes About Enlightenment

God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.
~ Ramana Maharshi
He is the wisest who seeks God. He is the most successful who has found God.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spirituality dawns when individuality vanishes. When our ego becomes aware of something that is higher than it - the individual Spirit, or Soul; then spirituality dawns.
~ Rama Swami
In the moment of deep creativity you disappear, God again starts functioning.
~ Rajneesh
Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.
~ Aristotle
God [is] not the exclusive property of any one tradition. The divine light [cannot] be confined to a single lamp, belonging to the East or the West, but enlightens all human beings.
~ Karen Armstrong
Satsang is here to wash off the minds face and to reveal the face of God
~ Mooji
Where God is, there is no other. Where world is, there is no God. These two will never unite. Like light and darkness.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Suffering is the way for Realization of God.
~ Ramana Maharshi
To a worldly man, a God-intoxicated person will appear mad and he will laugh at him, But to the God-intoxicated man, the worldly appear insane, foolish, misled, blind.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
The more you know, the more you see
~ Aldous Huxley
To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.
~ Plato
We're God too but we don't realise it.
~ George Harrison
No matter how good you are, you still need grace to get out of the material world. You can be a yogi or a monk or a nun, but without God's grace you still can't make it.
~ George Harrison
It's easier to be God than to see God.
~ Stephen Gaskin
All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Be happy! God sees in you another God. God sees you as another God. God sees you and He as One.
~ Sri Chinmoy
That higher awakening is called God-consciousness. In that condition, you will see that all the objects of the world are your own universal self.
~ Krishnananda Saraswati
In the course of time one does not feel even the existence of God. After attaining enlightenment one sees that gods and deities are all Maya.
~ Sarada Devi
The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept God.
~ Anthony de Mello
The purer I try to become, the nearer I feel to be to God.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride.
~ Ramakrishna
All that is real in me is God; all that is real in God is I. The gulf between God and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing God, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
~ Swami Vivekananda