Quotes About Enlightenment

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

To be free of belief and unbelief is my religion.

The Buddha never taught a sectarian religion; he taught Dhamma - the way to liberation - which is universal.

It is absurd to quote religion or God or religious doctrines to render the people as lowest castes.

those who have loved are those that have found God

Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.

There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.

Until we get rid of religion, we won't be able to conduct the search for God.

There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.

Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.

I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.

Things divine are not attainable by mortals who understand sensual things.

I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.

1.If you can bring your consciousness, your awareness, your intelligence to the act, if you can be spontaneous, then there is no need for any other religion, life itself will be the religion.

They all err - Muslims, Christians, Jews and Magians. There are two kinds of humans - the intelligent, who have no religion, and the religious, who have no intellect.

When all that's left of us is the pure untainted consciousness without form, we'll know what it means when the last human breath expires.

Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.

This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.

When you have succeeded in enshrining God within your heart, you will see Him everywhere.

Self-realization is, in fact, the only religion. For it is the true purpose of religion, no matter how people define their beliefs.

If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.

The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.