Be - don't try to become. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance. — Osho
When we wake up from our confused state of mind, that is enlightenment. — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life. — William Blake
The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened. — Ramana Maharshi
Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is. — Alan Watts
Be humble in order to attain enlightenment. Thus, after attaining it, be more humble still. — Samael Aun Weor
The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a True Human Being. — Rumi
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment. — Lao Tzu
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker, and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened, then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion and a genuine desire to serve others. — Rod Stryker
Enlightenment must come little by little-otherwise it would overwhelm. — Idries Shah
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment. — Lao Tzu
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. — Carl Jung
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help. — Bodhidharma
The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed. — Ajahn Sumedho
Enlightenment doesnt occur from sitting around visualizing images of light, but from integrating the darker aspects of the Self into the conscious personality. — Sayings
Short Becoming Enlightened Quotes
Enlightenment is the space between your thoughts. — Naval Ravikant
Words are a distraction to enlightenment. Getting rid of conceptual thinking means enlightenment. — Ramesh S Balsekar
There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take the one with a heart. — Lao Tzu
Enlightenments, like accidents, happen only to prepared minds. — Herbert Simon
Those who know are wise. Those who know themselves are enlightened. — Lao Tzu
The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness. — Nikos Kazantzakis
Each thought, each action in the sunlight of awareness becomes sacred. — Nhat Hanh
Becoming Enlightened Image Quotes
The less you respond to negative people, the more peaceful your life will become.
Being Enlightened Quotes
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared. — Buddha
I can feel guilty about the past, Apprehensive about the future,but only in the present can I act.The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. — Abraham Maslow
I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done. — Marie Curie
Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selevtive you become.
Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of hideous and involuntary erections in holy men. — Unknown Author
If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good. — Shantideva
In human life, you will find players of religion until the knowledge and proficiency in religion will be cleansed from all superstitions, and will be purified and perfected by the enlightenment of real science. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Don't let your struggle become your identity.
Enlightenment is a destructive process. It
has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the
crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing
through the facade of pretence. It's the
complete eradication of everything we
imagined to be true. — Adyashanti
Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. — James Madison
Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing. — Ajahn Chah
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create disticntions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true. — Buddha
Path To Enlightenment Quotes
Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment. — Morihei Ueshiba
Create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path — Osho
But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy. — Ho Chi Minh
Don't let your struggle become your identity.
Ultimately one must abandon the path to enlightenment. If you still define yourself as a Buddhist, you are not a buddha yet. — Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche
It shouldn't matter what anyone else thinks. Life is not easy. The road to happiness is not a path well trotted. You have to find your own path to enlightenment. — Jamie Campbell Bower
Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination. — Buddha
It is the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
The further we travel down the path of enlightenment, the more humble we become. We shouldn't seek to impress others—or allow ourselves to be taken—with mere outer trappings. If we do our inner work, our spirit will be our calling card. Nice to meet you. — Philip Toshio Sudo
One of the great dangers on the spiritual path is that the ego becomes spiritualized. The ego loves to think of itself as spiritually evolved. It is just another way that it manages to feel important and in control. It is very difficult to free yourself from an enlightened ego. — Leonard Jacobson
The path to enlightenment is really very simple - all we need to do is stop cherishing ourself and learn to cherish others. All other spiritual realisations will naturally follow from this. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Many paths lead to the Door of Enlightenment. Beware those that proclaim there is but one. — Mary Summer Rain
Spiritual Enlightenment Quotes
However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them? — Buddha
The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started. — T. S. Eliot
Knowledge is another form of God. If someone loves both. So he will get the answers to every question. — Vishesh Panthi
Who you become is infinitely more important than what you do, or what you have.
Forces of light on earth shall overcome the force of darkness. Complete spiritual enlightenment on earth will occur. — Edgar Cayce
You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being. — Eckhart Tolle
Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.
Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world. — Walter Isaacson
The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path. — Larry Dossey
The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self. — Albert Einstein
A burrito is a delicious food item that breaks down all social barriers and leads to temporary spiritual enlightenment. — Lisi Harrison
Self Enlightenment Quotes
Humour breaks down boundaries, it topples our self-importance, it connects people, and because it engages and entertains, it ultimately enlightens. — John Agard
The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self. — Whitney M. Young
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. — Buddha
The mind is like water. When it's turbulent, it's difficult to see. When it's calm, everything becomes clear.
When one is seized with a passion to understand one’s self, one has to leave behind all normal life and habitual modes of thought. — R.K. Narayan
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. — Buddha
Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength. — Lao Tzu
Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior.
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. — Immanuel Kant
Religions are the training wheels of self enlightenment. They can be helpful in the beginning but at some point they must be let go. — Reggie Watts
Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge. — Alice Walker
The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter. — Dave Mustaine
Enlightenment Quotes
Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated. — Saddam Hussein
The prosperity of a country depends, not on the abundance of its revenues, nor on the strength of its fortifications, nor on the beauty of its public buildings; but it consists in the number of its cultivated citizens, in its men of education, enlightenment and character. — Martin Luther
Architecture
is a small piece of this human equation, but for those of us who practice it,
we believe in its potential to make a difference, to enlighten and to enrich the
human experience, to penetrate the barriers of misunderstandin g and provide a
beautiful context for life's drama. — Frank Gehry
Tell a lie once and all your truths become questionable.
Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue that light in spite of the others. — Christopher Columbus
Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends. — Amartya Sen
Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. — Matsuo Basho
Even in the world, the yogi who faithfully discharges his responsibilities, without personal motive or attachment, treads the sure path of enlightenment. — Mahavatar Babaji
In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart. — Swami Vivekananda
You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible. — Deepak Chopra
Enlightenment And Love Quotes
Only those who overflow with love will build the happy and enlightened world of the future. — Fethullah Gulen
Through watering the ground of affectionate love with cherishing love, And then sowing the seeds of wishing love and compassion, the medicinal tree of Bodhichitta will grow. — Je Tsongkhapa
Be kind to yourself as you proceed along this journey. This kindness, in itself, is a means of awakening the spark of love within you and helping others to discover that spark within themselves. — Tsoknyi Rinpoche
Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention. — Deepak Chopra
Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that. — Joko Beck
To an Earthkeeper, love is not a feeling or something your barter with. Love is the essence of who you are, and it radiates from you as a brilliant aura: You become love, practice fearlessness, and attain enlightenment. — Alberto Villoldo
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds. — John Dryden
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. — Buddha
Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. — Buddha
Concentrate the mind on the present moment. — Buddha
Enlighten Quotes
The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable. — Malcolm Gladwell
The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines. — Anne Lamott
If anyone thinks he can help you, he will inevitably mislead you, and the less phony he is; the more powerful he is, the more enlightened he is, the more misery and mischief he will create for you. — U.G. Krishnamurti
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. — Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It is the actualization of wisdom, The ultimate truth of the oneness of all things. — Dogen
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams. — Saint Augustine
You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment. — Paddy Chayefsky
An enlightened society is one where all people - the rich and the poor, the literate and the illiterate, the black and the white, men and women - live happily as children of the same Lord. Thus experiencing the brotherhood of men under the fatherhood of God. — Pandurang Shastri Athavale
The mind is free and the slightest thought has great influence. It is therefore important that you think enlightened thoughts. — Moroccan Proverbs
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. — Thomas Jefferson
Words Of Enlightenment Quotes
There is a flaw with words, they always force us to feel enlightened, but when we turn around to face the world they always fail us and we end up facing the world as we always have, without enlightenment — Carlos Castaneda
The inward journey is about finding your own fullness, something that no one else can take away. — Deepak Chopra
All the buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be — don´t try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance." Osho — Osho
When awareness expands, events that seem random actually aren't. A larger purpose is trying to unfold through you. When you become aware of that purpose- which is unique for each person- you become like an architect who has been handed the blueprint. — Deepak Chopra
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill. — Buddha
Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty. — Bruce Lee
Zen is a special transmission outside the scriptures,With no reliance on words and letters.A direct pointing to the human mind,And the realization of enlightenment. — John Daido Loori
Everything in Irenaeus is bathed in a warm and radiant joy, a wise and majestic gentleness. His words of struggle are hard as iron and crystal clear, ... so penetrating that they cannot fail to enlighten the unbiased observer. — Hans Urs von Balthasar
Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition. Such are laws of nature and balance. — Dan Brown
Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, F?nelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical of all ages -- have been believers in Jesus Christ; and the great Cond?, when dying, repeated these noble words, "Yes, I shall see God as He is, face to face!". — Luc De Clapiers
God Enlightenment Quotes
You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. — Marianne Williamson
So I cast my lot with Him-not the one who claimed wisdom, Confucius; or the one who claimed enlightenment, Buddha; or the one who claimed to be a prophet, Muhammad, but with the one who claimed to be God in human flesh. The one who declared, 'Before Abraham was born, I am'-and proved it. — Norman Geisler
Pray to God with tears in your eyes whenever you want illumination or find yourself faced with any doubt or difficulty. The Lord will remove all your impurities, assuage your mental anguish, and give you enlightenment. — Sarada Devi
The kingdom of God is just behind the darkness of closed eyes, and the first gate that opens to it is your peace. — Paramahansa Yogananda
The lover of silence draws close to God. He talks to Him in secret and God enlightens him. — John Climacus
We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself. — Robert Anton Wilson
Reality is all-encompassing: the absolute nature is one. Although we may feel separate from the original uncreated reality - whether we call it 'God,' 'peak experience,' or 'enlightened mind' - through awareness we can contact this essential part of ourselves. — Tarthang Tulku
God [is] not the exclusive property of any one tradition. The divine light [cannot] be confined to a single lamp, belonging to the East or the West, but enlightens all human beings. — Karen Armstrong
In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction. — Saint John of the Cross
As God talked with Arjuna, so will He talk with you. As He lifted up the spirit and consciousness of Arjuna, so will He uplift you. As he granted Arjuna supreme spiritual vision, so will He confer enlightenment on you. — Paramahansa Yogananda
Spiritual Awakening Quotes
You never identify yourself with the shadows cast by your body, or with its reflection, or with the body you see in a dream or in your imagination. Therefore you should not identify yourself with this living body either. — Adi Shankara
If you really want peace of mind and inner calm, you will get it. Regardless of how unjustly you have been treated, or how unfair the boss has been, or what a mean scoundrel someone has proved to be, all this makes no difference to you when you awaken to your mental and spiritual powers. — Joseph Murphy
If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself, if you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation. — Lao Tzu
I'm not a prophet of doom, I'm a prophet of love. But love will bid a warning doom to the children who play on the freeway. We need to wake up. — Keith Green
History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster. — Douglas MacArthur
The heart is the hub of all sacred places. Go there and roam. — Bhagawan Nityananda
It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the 'I Am,' our real presence, can awaken. — G. I. Gurdjieff
I looked in temples churches and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart. — Rumi
As you smell the fragrance of a flower by handing it or the smell of sandalwood by rubbing it against a stone, so you obtain spiritual awakening by constantly thinking of God. — Sarada Devi
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you? — Rumi
Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular. — Carl Jung
It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects. — Nikola Tesla
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. — Buddha
Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it. — Osho
There was a famous Zen master whom people would seek out to become enlightened. He was strict and would occupy people with things having nothing to do with seeking enlightenment. You see, that is the only way to achieve enlightenment; by not focusing on achieving it. Then, one day it will just come to you. — Masaaki Hatsumi
The people to become enlightened in Atlantis lit the "flame of enlightenment" on earth for the first time. The members of the various mystery schools have kept the flame alive by passing on the secret techniques for attaining enlightenment from the time of Atlantis to our present day. — Frederick Lenz
All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become. — Buddha
With our thoughts we make the world. — Buddha
Imagine a culture in which everything is geared toward helping all individuals become the best human beings they can be; in which individuals are driven to devoting their lives to becoming enlightened by the natural flood of compassion for others that arises from their wisdom. — Robert Thurman
The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands. — Rosa Luxemburg
With each new day it becomes more apparent to me that everything and everyone in this world is connected in some beautiful and inexplicable way, and the more I accept that, the more my world seems to come together. — Andrew McMahon
Do no harmful actions, do not become attached to the cycle of death and rebirth, show kindness, respect the old and have compassion for the young, do not have a heart that rejects or a heart that covets and have no worry or sadness in your heart. This is what is called enlightenment. Do not seek it elsewhere. — Dogen
Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love - now you are love. — Osho
If it feels like your life has become a nasty, brackish puddle of water, never forget that you do possess the power to transform it into a beautiful, rushing stream that will carry you to enlightenment. — Russell Simmons
Ramakrishna didn't suddenly become enlightened. We had years of him meditating, seeking, crying to Mother Kali, going in and out of samadhi; but after many years of this process, he was enlightened. He was no longer a finite individual. — Frederick Lenz
Figuring out our gifts in life is part of our journey to becoming enlightened human beings. — Allison DuBois
Good karma leads to rebirth also. The desire for higher states of mind is a desire. When you are fixated on higher states of mind, you don't become enlightened. — Frederick Lenz
I always had an existential crisis, trying to figure out ‘what does it all mean?’ I came to the conclusion that if we can advance the knowledge of the world, if we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, then, we’re better able to ask the right questions and become more enlightened. That’s the only way to move forward. — Elon Musk
Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment. — Eckhart Tolle
There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. — Carl Jung
The object of this edict is to enlighten the present and future citizens of Chandigarh about the basic concepts of planning of the city so that they become its guardians and save it from whims of individuals. — Le Corbusier
There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall by the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Those who seek liberation for themselves alone cannot become fully enlightened. Though it may be said that one who is not already liberated cannot liberate others, the very process of forgetting oneself to help others is in itself liberating — Muso Soseki
Total relaxation is the ultimate. That's the moment when one becomes a buddha. That is the moment of realization, enlightenment, christ-consciousness. You cannot be totally relaxed right now. At the innermost core a tension will persist. — Osho
Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to become. — Robert Thurman
It is great that even before we become enlightened or generate any lam-rim realizations we are able to offer incredible benefit to others. The person who does this is a very fortunate person and should rejoice very often. — Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
There are many other possibilities more enlightening than the struggle to become the local doctor's most affluent ulcer case. — Nelson Rockefeller
Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion. — Theodor Adorno
A fully blossomed human potential is enlightenment. It is becoming a child again, and coming back to your original nature. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives. — Pema Chodron
Each individual is unique in ordinary life. The uniqueness becomes even more sharp and clear, crystal clear, when the person becomes enlightened - because only then his pure genius, his pure individuality, uncontaminated, unpolluted, is revealed. — Osho
Meditation is nothing but putting the mind aside, putting the mind out of the way, and bringing a witnessing which is always there but hidden underneath the mind. This witnessing will reach to your center, and once you have become enlightened, then there is no problem. Then bring the mind in tune with you — Osho
Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead it's about becoming more fully human. . . . It is the end of ignorance. — Surya Das
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