Quotes About Enlightenment

Orthodox devotions that do not let in the light of modern knowledge are no more than a form of ancestor worship.

A story on the page is like a printed circuit for our lives to flow through, A story told invokes our dim capacity to be alive in bodies not our own. You would want the whole planet in voice and the totality of intimate human narrations composing a hymn to enlightenment if that were possible. In

Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.

Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance.

What a liberation to realize that the "voice in my head" is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.

To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.

Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.

The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not "the thinker." The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.

Being an outsider to some extent, someone who does not fit in with others or is rejected by them for whatever reason, makes life difficult, but it also places you at an advantage as far as enlightenment is concerned. It takes you out of unconsciousness almost by force.

On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.

Form is emptiness, emptiness is form states the Heart Sutra, one of the best known ancient Buddhist texts. The essence of all things is emptiness.

The light is too painful for someone who wants to remain in darkness.

Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your mind.

The secret of life is to "die before you die" — and find that there is no death.

Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.

Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

every person carries the seed of enlightenment within

Many people don't realize until they are on their deathbed and everything external falls away that no thing ever had anything to do with who they are.

Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don't take your thoughts too seriously.

If there isn't an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment.

Enlightenment is not only the end of suffering and of continuous conflict within and without, but also the end of the dreadful enslavement to incessant thinking. What an incredible liberation this is!

When you accept what is, every moment is the best moment. That is enlightenment.

But to know that you are not present is a great success: