Quotes About Enlightenment

The main cause of suffering is egoistic desire for one's own comfort and happiness.

What makes us happy is to have a spiritual experience ... that experience of ecstasy in the deepest meditation; that's happiness.

Enlightenment is really worth seeking. It is the only thing that gives you permanent happiness. When you experience the ecstasy of enlightenment, everything is alright.

It is by fighting and triumphing over the enemies of the Buddha that we ourselves become Buddhas.

The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.

It is you who are choosing, in any moment, to be happy or choosing to be sad, or choosing to be angry, or forgiving, or enlightened, or whatever. You are choosing.

Whenever you meditate, there are glimpses. Then the mind comes in and says, 'Be happy! Look, I have done it.' And immediately the contact is lost.

That is why I don't believe much in what Mr. Descartes said: "I think, therefore I am." I think, therefore I'm lost in my thinking. I'm not there.

The person who suffers most in this world is the person who has many wrong perceptions, and most of our perceptions are erroneous.

Suffering just means you're having a bad dream. Happiness means you're having a good dream. Enlightenment means getting out of the dream altogether.

There is no happiness in what worldly people believe happiness in, there is happiness in what Gnani [the enlightened one] believes the happiness in. What people regard as happiness is not happiness.

Things do not give unhappiness, ignorance (of one's real Self) does.

A man came to Budha and said, "I want happiness". Budha replied" Remove 'I", its your ego, Remove "want" its you source of misery, Now you are left with "happiness".

Without the 'applied awareness' of the Soul, 'happiness' cannot arise.

Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.

When you experience permanent bliss of the Self (samadhi), then it will be considered that your entire work is completed.

If you experience bliss of the Self (samadhi) amidst complete problematic stage, then know that you have met a "Gnani Purush" [the enlightened one]!

As much longing for worldly happiness (of 5 senses) there is, that much less is the spiritual development.

An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy

You are trying to pierce the veil, to break through the Frisbee so that it doesn't exist, to break through the football so it doesn't exist, and to break through your opponent so they don't exist.

One should strive to understand what underlies sufferings and diseases - and aim for health and well-being while gaining in the Path.

When we commit ourselves to writing for some part of each day, we are happier, more enlightened, alive, light-hearted and generous to everyone else. Even our health improves.

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

Spirituality leads to awaken of soul and revitalize of spirit.