Quotes About Enlightenment

My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.

O God, for as much as without Thee We are not enabled to doubt Thee, Help us all by Thy grace To convince the whole race It knows nothing whatever about Thee.

Ignorance is God's prison. Knowing is God's palace

In my breaking through...I transcend all creatures and am neither God nor creature...for in this breaking through I find that God and I are both the same.

The human spirit must transcend number and break through multiplicity, and God will break through him; and just as He

So it's really a process of actually having a realization of God, which all becomes clear with the expanded state of consciousness that develops when you chant.

Krishna is God, and by chanting His Holy Names, the devotee quickly develops God-consciousness.

Books cannot teach God, but they can destroy ignorance; their action is negative.

To see God is the one goal. Power is not the goal.

Virtually every spiritual tradition teaches that your higher self is the presence of God within you.

From age to age an enlightened person comes along, one who has made friends with God. They're usually forgotten or scorned.

Humanity starts at the level of the human consciousness and makes its deliberate way to the summit, which is God Consciousness.

God and I will achieve Supreme Enlightenment at the same moment.

God cannot be realized through intellect.

The seeker asking, Where is God? Is really God saying, Where indeed is the seeker!

Walk in the light so you can see where you're going

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

Atheist isn't really the right word because they tended to believe in some sort of Enlightenment, capital 'N' Nature kind of god. But these were people who in their times were criticized as infidels.

In each of us is a seed of understanding. The seed is God.

The attempt is to kill the false "I", so that the real "I", the Lord, will reign. "I the Lord thy God am a jealous God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me," say the Hebrew scriptures.

Only when a man sees this universe as God does the veil fall from his eyes; then that man, purified and cleansed, finds his whole vision changed.

Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self - realisation.

To be unselfish, perfectly selfless, is salvation itself; for the man within dies, and God alone remains.

There is no salvation for man until he sees God, realises his own soul.