Quotes About Enlightenment

É, eu sei que isso é verdade.

If you are drawn to an enlightened teacher, it is because there is already enough presence in you to recognize presence in another.

Yes, you are the Truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be deceived every time.

The predominance of mind is no more than a stage in the evolution of consciousness.

El Buda dice que el dolor o sufrimiento surge por el deseo y que para liberarnos del sufrimiento tenemos que cortar los lazos del deseo.

Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light.

The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not the possessing entity — the thinker.

If you think you are so enlightened," Ram Dass said, "go and spend a week with your parents.

people who are reaching a point where they become capable of breaking out of inherited collective mind-patterns that have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons.

If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves.

After you have tasted it, the word becomes less important to you. You won't be attached to it anymore. Similarly, you can talk or think about God continuously for the rest of your life, but does that mean you know or have even glimpsed the reality to which the word points? It really is no more than an obsessive attachment

In the seeing of who you are not, the reality of who you are emerges by itself.

The Buddha says that pain or suffering arises through desire or craving and that to be free of pain we need to cut the bonds of desire.

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.

Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself.

In pointing to the impermanence of all forms, by implication, they are also pointing to the eternal. Only the eternal in you can recognize the impermanent as impermanent.

Una creencia puede ser consoladora. Sin embargo sólo a través de su propia experiencia se vuelve liberadora.

I didn't realize yet that thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence.

learn to disidentify from your mind.

You may have heard the Buddhist saying: "If there were no illusion, there would be no enlightenment." It is through the world and ultimately through you that the Unmanifested knows itself. You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are!

long as they are their mind, what they fear and resist most is their own awakening.

Instead of quoting the Buddha, be the Buddha, be "the awakened one," which is what the word buddha means.

The whole advertising industry and consumer society would collapse if people became enlightened and no longer sought to find their identity through things.

liberation. But you cannot