Quotes About Enlightenment

There's some things even Enlightenment won't change. If you're a son-of-a-bitch before you visit the Absolute, you'll still be a son-of-bitch after.

You don't know anything until you know Everything.

I'm sorry. We know how it works. The world is no longer mysterious.

At death there is only liberation. It is just more chic to see liberation when you are alive." Max Furlaud in a private conversation

A day will dawn when you will laugh at all your past efforts." Ramana Maharshi

Are there any poets that write directly about this? Oneness is typing this, Oneness is reading this. People mention Hafiz and Rumi. Non-Duality Press publishes books of poems by Nicholas Czernin, 'Wasteland Words', and by John Astin, 'This Is Always Enough'.

Parsifal is on his way to the temple of the Grail Knights and says: "I hardly move, yet far I seem to have come", and the all-knowing Gurnemanz replies: "You see, my son, time turns here into space

Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.

Richelle Mead

Wise men don't need concrete answers. By definition, they need wisdom." ~ Geraki

If your going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.

He writes to his friends in Ephesus: I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened. When people ask you what the Bible is about, do you answer: It's about becoming more enlightened? Because that's how Paul puts it.

started to see what all those yogis and Buddhas and monks and nuns and sages and gurus across the ages were smiling about. This experience we're all having here, this event we were born into— it's profoundly, deeply, fundamentally off.

Thou art god, I am god. All that groks is god.

Harshaw had the arrogant humility of a man who has learned so much that he is aware of his own ignorance; he saw no point in "measurements

There is a universal sense in humans that there is unity and cohesion at the heart of life, and that it is possible for us to be consciously aware of it. So far as I can discover, it is this awareness of the primordial and essential unity of the human psyche that most religions and philosophies have referred to as enlightenment.

To honor and accept one's own shadow is a profound spiritual discipline. It is whole-making and thus holy and the most important experience of a lifetime.

Heaven and skid row are separated only by an act of consciousness.

To advance from opposition (always a quarrel) to paradox (always holy) is to make a leap of consciousness. That leap takes us through the chaos of middle age and gives a vista that enlightens the remaining years of life. It is a valuable exercise to list the oppositions that we face, then try to restore them to the realm of paradox. We can start with these two sets of values: the everyday practical attitudes that nearly everyone agrees to and the religious instruction that we are given.

Proverbs in many languages point out these three levels of consciousness. One story, for instance, relates that the simple man comes home in the evening wondering what's for dinner, the complex man comes home pondering the imponderables of fate, and the enlightened man comes home wondering what's for dinner.

An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.

Who is the Master who makes the grass green? (Zen koan)

The Fool sees not the same tree the wise man sees.

He said after reading Illuminatus! he laughed so much that he got over his paranoia.