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Quotes About Enlightenment

Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
~ Matthew Arnold
O, Great Spirit, open my eyes, open heart's wings, open my ears to your voice in all things.
~ Rumi
Occasionally in my travels I meet people who have pushed too far into the nagual. These individuals are not too balanced but they have made great journeys in the unknown.
~ Frederick Lenz
Through the practice of meditation and the auric empowerments and guidance of an enlightened master, you can totally change your karmic destiny.
~ Frederick Lenz
I want to help put some of the pieces together for people. I want to empower people so they don't have to keep going to others outside of themselves for guidance.
~ Echo Bodine
The Ignorance the people live in leads them to commit mistakes against their own happiness
~ Simon Bolivar
A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends.
~ James Monroe
He who knows that all things are his mind, That all with which he meets are friendly, Is ever joyful.
~ Milarepa
O, happy the soul that saw its own faults.
~ Rumi
True happiness consists in eliminating the false idea of 'I'.
~ Buddhadasa
Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy.
~ Alfred Armand Montapert
When you go into the space of nothingness, everything becomes known.
~ Gautama Buddha
Whatever suffering there is in this world,all arises from desiring only myself to be happy.And whatever joy there is in this world,all arises from desiring to share my happiness with everyone.
~ Gautama Buddha
Speak or act with a pure mind, and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakable.
~ Gautama Buddha
Be thou a true yogi. A yogi who understands that everything he's looking for is really inside himself. Learn to live more in the Self.
~ Goswami Kriyananda
Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.
~ Mary McLeod Bethune
The Zen of doing anything is doing it with a particular concentration of mind, a calmness and simplicity of mind, that brings the experience of enlightenment and, through that experience, happiness.
~ Chris Prentiss
Books make up no small part of human happiness.
~ Frederick The Great
Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world - harmlessness towards all living beings.
~ Gautama Buddha
Beyond happiness and unhappiness is truth. Truth is not affected by anything in the relative world. Truth is the unifying aspect of existence.
~ Frederick Lenz
I will not be afraid because I understand ... And understanding is happiness.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Freedom from suffering is a great happiness.
~ Nhat Hanh
The pathway to enlightenment is happiness. It doesn't really matter if you're successful, if you're in prison, if you're dying - if you have contact with light.
~ Frederick Lenz