Quotes About Enlightenment

You haven't seen god but god is always an invisible one to show you the way to understand yourself.

Unless you can guide the mind inward, and take the attention beyond the comprehension of mind, and directly experience life, you never reach to the ultimate truth of life.

The lover of silence draws close to God. He talks to Him in secret and God enlightens him.

Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.

Our prayer is not simply, 'Dear God, please send me a better job,' but, 'Dear God, enable me to see this situation differently, that this area of apparent lack might be healed inside my mind.

There is only one prayer and that is prayer for light, for purity, for perfection.

The prayer of Ajax was for light.

Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.

The instant you take the lead in the tug-of-war with your ego, enlightenment becomes your state of being.

Obedience is the opener of eyes.

From a spiritual perspective every relationship we develop, from the most casual to the most intimate, serves the purpose of helping us to become more conscious.

Nansen was asked by Joshu, 'What is the Way?' He replied, 'Your everyday mind is the Way [Heijoshin kore do].

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

Light seeking light doth light of light beguile.

There exists nowhere on Earth a "soulful place" -- everywhere you are, is the soulful place. The entire world is filled with mystical qualities, including your little slice of the world. Paradise and enlightenment are always within your reach. It's joy. And you should work on filling all your years with as much joy as possible.

Two centuries later, the Enlightenment transmuted Christian linearism into a complementary secular faith, what historian Carl Becker called "the heavenly city of the eighteenth-century philosophers"—the belief in indefinite scientific, economic, and political improvement.

My opposition is based on two grounds; first, the right of every rational being to become a "Priest unto himself," and by the test of enlightened reason, to form his own unbiased judgment of all things natural and spiritual:

Oh, be wise, thou! Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.

Shaolin Kungfu is not meant for hurting others but for saving lives and helping people towards enlightenment.

Morality is the basis of all spirituality; if one is not morally pure, it is impossible to attain the highest spiritual fulfilment.

In heaven above there is Zhulin Monastery; on earth below there is Shaolin Monastery.

No matter what a person may be exhibiting at any given moment, it is only one part of a whole human being; each person contains the seed of enlightenment within and therefore deserves respect. While

There's no way out of this mess, except to become enlightened and then enjoy it. —Robert Thurman A

Buddhism clearly explains that suffering emerges in our hearts because we forget the principle of impermanence and believe that what we possess will last forever.