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Quotes About Enlightenment

We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.
~ Thomas Aquinas
...the more a person becomes spiritually minded or advances towards God, the more tolerant he becomes and the less differentiation he sees.
~ Meher Baba
Knowing the Self, God is known.
~ Ramana Maharshi
In one word, one should desire of God desirelessness. For desire alone is at the root of all suffering. It is the cause of repeated births and deaths. It is the obstacle in the way of liberation.
~ Sarada Devi
Without purity it's impossible to realize God.
~ Frederick Lenz
The kingdom of God is available to you in the here and the now. But the question is whether you are available to the kingdom.
~ Nhat Hanh
What else does one obtain by realization of God? Does one grow two horns? No, the mind becomes pure, and through a pure mind one attains knowledge and awakening.
~ Sarada Devi
Oh my God. Lift me up out of this illusion, Lord. Heal my perception that I might know only reality and only you.
~ Bill Hicks
Place your attention 6 inches above your crown. God is breathing in and out there.
~ Lauryn Hill
God can never be realized by one who is not pure of heart.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
To grasp God in all things--this is the sign of your new birth.
~ Meister Eckhart
For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.
~ Peace Pilgrim
God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with.
~ Peter Kreeft
Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to become.
~ Robert Thurman
Why, when God's world is so big, did you fall asleep in a prison, of all places?
~ Rumi
Even faith in God is only a stage on the way. Ultimately you abandon all, for you come to something so simple that there are no words to express it.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The highest and greatest goal that every soul has to reach is God. As everything needs renunciation, that highest goal needs the highest renunciation.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
... The wise in all ages... have tried to learn one thing only, and that was resignation to the Will of God. By doing this, they have reached a stage at which they could see from God's point of view.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
Don't think that some tomorrow you'll see God's Light. You see it now or err in darkest night.
~ Angelus Silesius
If you want to know where God is, ask a drunk.
~ Charles Bukowski
If you are on an honest journey to find yourself, you'll find God.
~ Martin Sheen
Why is it so difficult to find God? Because you're looking for something you've never lost.
~ Meher Baba
The Ultimate and Highest leave taking is leaving God for GOD, leaving your notion of God for an Experience of That which transcends all notions.
~ Meister Eckhart
We are on the planet to... wrap our consciousness around the divine treasure within us.
~ Michael Beckwith