Quotes About Enlightenment

Remember the words of the Buddha: 'Though one man may conquer a thousand men a thousand times in battle, he who conquers himself is the greatest warrior.

Buddhism is about understanding our own true nature. What and who we really are.

My little 'bodhicatva,'" he will sometimes call me, a play on bodhisattva, a Sanskrit term that in Buddhism refers to an enlightened being.

bodhisattva, a Sanskrit term that in Buddhism refers to an enlightened being.

May my every action of body, speech, and mind today be a cause for me to become enlightened, so that I may help all other beings attain this same state.

May this act of generosity be a cause for me to become enlightened, so that I may help all other beings attain this same state.

Our true purpose in life –' he paused '– is to awaken to our own energy,

I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'

Rather than counseling despair, educating for the unknown favors a vision of learning aggressive in its effort to foster curiosity, enlightenment, empowerment, and responsibility in a complex and dynamic world. It favors a broad and visionary reach for meaningful learning.

The purpose of this book is not to make you more worried. The purpose of this book is to make you more smart.

We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness. —THICH NHAT HANH

Delusion happens when we see all that is from the viewpoint of the self. Enlightenment happens when we see ourselves from the viewpoint of the things in nature.

No moment is ever trivial, since any moment points to the exit into enlightenment.

The secret to life is: there is no secret.

worse shape than you and helping the poor person. It's about a relationship between equals. You understand their suffering. You're completely in their shoes. It comes from softening our hearts, opening up to our own and others' pain. To me, that's enlightenment.

We have fought long and hard to escape medieval superstition and I, for one, do not want to go back. —JAMES RANDI

Zarathustra is the prophet of the Church of the Serpent. He himself was distinctly serpentine. Nietzsche is one of the snake philosophers. He has venom towards the weak and the meek. He has the fierce bite of knowledge. We all need the Serpent's Kiss if we wish to become enlightened. You must poison your old self if you wish to find your new self, your higher self. Your old views are poisonous. Poison must meet poison.

We don't want half-truths, misinformation and a cute, dumbed down description of reality using cringy words. We want words we have never heard before. Give us cerebral explosions. Give us words that trigger nuclear reactions in the darkest places of our unconscious. We want the laser light of knowledge that removes all confusion, illusion and delusion. We welcome and embrace the pain of transcending our conditioned minds.

All their lives they had been taught to think of sight as an anathema.

It seems the whole works of humankind are backwards. Most are trying to convince, instruct, and purify everyone else - without first purifying themselves. To enlighten others we have to enlighten ourselves.

What did the mystic say to the hot dog vendor?" Sophia's eyebrows pulled together. "I don't know, Isaiah, what did the mystic say?" "Make me one with everything.

Live a life of rightness. Seek to follow the blessed Lord, and pray for enlightenment for others.

His level of experience is nearly transcendent.

Humans can no longer afford to think in division and darkness. Collaborative intelligence is the light that is necessary for our individual and collective survival. We have no choice now but to think together.