Quotes About Enlightenment

Inner freedom is not guided by our efforts; it comes from seeing what is true.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

What I am trying to do is to unmuddle the metaphysical.

Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists.

I come not to entertain you with worldly festivities but to arouse your sleeping memory of immortality.

The Age of Aquarius is the age of excellence in which personal purity shall absolutely matter.

I like things that are educational and educational. I like things that are inspirational.

There is an emergent enlightenment appearing today, unique to no particular culture or ethnicity. Anyone who chooses to be, is its conduit.

For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

You may have expected that enlightenment would come ZAP! instantaneous and permanent.This is unlikely.After the first ah ha expereince, it can be thougth of as a thinning of a layer of clouds.

The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.

You have probably had past lives where you were in better stages of mind than you are in now.

Without going out of my door, I can know all things on earth. Without looking out of my window I could know the ways of heaven. The farther one travels, The less one knows, the less one really knows.

The day we stop learning is the day we die.

The trap of the self is the trap that causes unhappiness. We define ourselves too much; whereas the infinite, the pure radiant spirit, is not so definable.

Knock, And He'll open the door Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.

The things that make us happy make us wise.

You might have a warrior spirit in there somewhere, and it's just waiting for the opportunity to come out. If you do, you might be a candidate for the pathway to enlightenment.

All of the energy of existence is going to flow through you. You will be in thousands of planes of consciousness at once or beyond in nirvana or having a sandwich with a friend.

Go forth in every direction- for the happiness, the harmony, the welfare of the many. Offer your heart, the seeds of understanding, like a lamp overturned and re-lit, illuminating the darkness.

An integral being knows without going, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing.

Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.

I would encourage you to follow the pathway to enlightenment, to learn to meditate, to practice mindfulness, and not to really care what anybody thinks about you, including yourself.