Quotes About Enlightenment

The whole search of religion is for that witness: how to find that which is real.

Laughter is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the very disease. Laughter is egolessness.

To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.

Religion is consciousness-raising. It raises you higher than the problem, it gives you a bird's-eye view.

Mountains and rivers at this very moment are the actualization of the world of the ancient Buddhas. Each, abiding in its phenomenal expression, realizes completeness.

God not only loves the obedient - He enlightens them.

THE ART OF PEACE is the religion that is not a religion; it perfects and completes all religions.

I keep stacks of Autobiography of a Yogi around the house, and I give it out constantly to people. When people need 'regrooving,' I say read this, because it cuts to the heart of every religion.

Religion is very enlightening - to those who don't understand it.

In all our Yogas this renunciation is necessary. This is the stepping-stone and the real centre and the real heart of all spiritual culture - renunciation. This is religion - renunciation.

In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

Religion has only one answer and that answer is meditation. And meditation means how to empty yourself.

The inner emptiness is the door to God.

Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.

Since the Enlightenment, popular religion has rejected the Enlightenment path and transformed itself into a bastion of resistance against reason.

The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason.

There are no truths outside the Gates of Eden.

Science has taken away our religion.

We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think that religion stops people from thinking. I think it justifies crazies.

Freethought is respectable. Freethought is crucial. Freethought needs to be publicized.

As far as ignorance is concerned, not just Buddhism, every religion recognizes it as the source of suffering.

My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.

The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and suffering.

How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a person bound in mind with people.