Quotes About Enlightenment

If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depths to you as a human being–no humility, no compassion. You would not be listening to this now. Suffering cracks open the shell of ego. And then comes a point where it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize that it is unnecessary.

But don't let it go to your head, because up there is where a remnant of ego may be hiding. You are still an ordinary human. What is extraordinary is what comes through you into this world, that essence you share with all beings.

Being can be felt as the ever-present I am that is beyond name and form. To feel and thus to know that you are and to abide in that deeply rooted state is enlightenment, is the truth that Jesus says will make you free.

Spiritual seekers look for self-realization or enlightenment in the future. To be a seeker implies that you need the future. If this is what you believe, it becomes true for you: you will need time until you realize that you don't need time to be who you are.

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 seeing is freeing.

Entonces usted comienza a darse cuenta de que hay un vasto reino de inteligencia más allá del pensamiento, que el pensamiento es sólo un minúsculo aspecto de esa inteligencia. También se da cuenta de que todo lo que importa verdaderamente — la belleza, el amor, la creatividad, la alegría, la paz interior — surgen de un lugar más allá de la mente. Usted comienza a despertar.

Thought can at best point to the truth, but it never is the truth.

The energy that was trapped in the pain-body then changes its vibrational frequency and is transmuted into Presence. In this way, the pain-body becomes fuel for consciousness. This is why many of the wisest, most enlightened men and women on our planet once had a heavy pain-body.

The way of the cross is a complete reversal. It means that the worst thing in your life, your cross, turns into the best thing that ever happened to you, by forcing you into surrender, into "death," forcing you to become as nothing, to become as God — because God, too, is no-thing.

La mayoría de los seres humanos están todavía en las garras del modo egótico de conciencia: identificados con su mente y dominados por ella. Si no se liberan de su mente a tiempo, serán destruidos por ella.

Jesus's statement that "your whole body will be filled with light

Die before you die and find that there is no death.

Breadth of mind not infrequently accompanies limitation of knowledge.

Yes, the Gorgon has dried your tears.' Well, she has opened my eyes too; it's a delusion to say she blinds people. What she does is the contrary-she fastens their eyelids open, so they're never again in the blessed darkness.

It is surprising how little narrow walls and a low ceiling matter, when the roof of the soul has suddenly been raised.

Ah, he would take her beyond---beyond the ugliness, the pettiness, the attrition and corrosion of her soul.

She would never again know what it was to feel herself alone. Everything seemed to have suddenly grown clear and simple.

the endless labour of rolling human stupidity up the steep hill of understanding.

A San Pablo, como era machito, la iluminación le llegó mientras galopaba camino de Damasco; yo la tuve mientras me desmaquillaba.

we have to keep him in a state of enlightened deception.

The truth, as the light, makes blind.

I know LSD; I don't need to take it anymore. Maybe when I die, like Aldous Huxley .

The good news is that we are Buddha. The bad news is that all beings are Buddha. The sickness of being human is the sickness of wanting to be unique.