Quotes About Enlightenment

People who are drawn to meditation have had lots of incarnation in the world of experience, and we know the score. We know that experience is great, but it's not enough.

You don't have to meditate. You don't have to practice self-discovery and Buddhism. You should only practice self-discovery if you really have had it with the human world.

Enlightenment is cumulative. You become a little more enlightened each day as you practice yoga and Buddhism.

In this world people are at different levels of evolution. The more advanced soul has learned that fulfillment does not come from simply leading a physical life.

Why become enlightened? Why join the military? Why get married? Why cross the ocean? It is a personal choice. There is something in a person that draws them to the light.

On your journey, remember there is no end. That is true knowledge. There is no final knowledge. There is no final enlightenment, that is a very finite, human way of seeing things.

We sit here on the oasis of human consciousness and the verbal plane trying to talk about something that we just have to go and see and do and feel.

There is an alternative. It's an old alternative. It's not for everybody. It's only for people who are smart, limited market. It's enlightenment.

Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment, and I would encourage you to follow that pathway as far as you can, into ecstasy.

Enlightenment is already there inside us and all things. All we have to do is get something out of the way that is causing us not to see that.

It's not logical, self-realization. If it was, everybody would be self-realized because everybody is logical.

If you are trying to aid people in the process of self-discovery, what you have to do is confound them with so many concepts that are contradictory, yet each make complete sense in its own right.

The surface personality is only the beginning of what we are. So as we meditate, we still that surface personality, we can see beyond it, and we see that we encompass multitudes.

Enlarge the pupil of the eye, so that the body with its attendant personality will no longer obstruct the view. Immortality is then experienced as a present fact.

The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.

A true Master does not "give up" something. A true Master simply sets it aside, as he would do with anything for which he no longer has any use.

Zen is all-inclusive. It never denies, it never says no to anything; it accepts everything and transforms it into a higher reality.

Zen is the only religion in the world that teaches sudden enlightenment. It says that enlightenment takes no time, it can happen in a single, split second.

If you are absolutely without mind, just pure consciousness, time stops completely, disappears, leaving no trace behind.

Yoga is a method to come to a non-dreaming mind.

How can one become enlightened? One can, because one is enlightened - one just has to recognize the fact.

The whole effort of a Jesus or a Buddha or a Bodhidharma is nothing but how to undo that which society has done to you.

Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you

A transcendent being can be any miracle.