Quotes About Enlightenment

An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

If people would just wake up to what's real, there would be no misery in the world. I guess chanting's a pretty good place to start.

A saint is someone who has been very selfless and, over a period of lifetimes, generated a tremendous amount of good karma, which has caused them to enter into very lovely states of mind.

Good karma leads to rebirth also. The desire for higher states of mind is a desire. When you are fixated on higher states of mind, you don't become enlightened.

It is always possible to get into a higher state of mind. The way you get into a higher state of mind is by generating good karma.

An unread book does nobody any good

A sick body with a good heart is more beneficial to future lives than a fit, healthy body that is used for self-cherishing.

The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.

The good news is that we are Buddha. The bad news is that all beings are Buddha. The sickness of being human is the sickness of wanting to be unique.

Simply by performing good actions and thinking good thoughts you will not attain enlightenment. It takes something more.

A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.

How do you become enlightened? Have fun, meditate, don't take yourself too seriously, brush between incarnations and have a good teacher.

Buddhism suggests there are no elect. Everything rests upon your own self-effort, which is the good news because that means you don't have to wait around for some nebulous God to help you.

People who meditate seek good moments forever. They know that there are other worlds beyond this world. They feel it. I experience those worlds when I meditate.

To me, the most important thing is to tell a good story. If I can do that, I think that enlightenment, respect of nature, etc. follows.

Blessed are they who translate every good thing they know into action - even higher truths shall be revealed to them.

The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.

Only the great Souls can and know how to love.

Hanifs (Muslims) are stumbling, Christians all astray Jews wildered, Magians far on error's way. We mortals are composed of two great schools Enlightened knaves or else religious fools.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

God-realization is attained only by great effort on the part of the yogi and by divine grace.

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.

All the great spiritual traditions have placed major emphasis upon meditation as a path to personal growth.