Becoming Enlightened Quotes

• What you think you become.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• 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

  Becoming Better, Enlightenment, Crumbling

  Adyashanti (2010). “The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment”, p.103, Sounds True

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• 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.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Ideas

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• We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Leadership, Uplifting

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• 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.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead it's about becoming more fully human. . . . It is the end of ignorance.

  Surya Das

  Ignorance, Enlightenment, Becoming

  Surya Das, Lama Surya Das (1997). “Awakening the Buddha Within: Eight Steps to Enlightenment : Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World”, Broadway

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• Experience life in all possible ways -- good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don't be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.

  Rajneesh

  Summer, Spiritual, Sweet

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• All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become.

  Gautama Buddha

  Karma, Buddhist, Attitude

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• One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

  Carl Jung

  Love Life, Suicidal, Knowledge

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler, Michael Scott Montague Fordham (1973). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Alchemical studies”

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• Figuring out our gifts in life is part of our journey to becoming enlightened human beings.

  Allison DuBois

  Journey, Becoming, Life Is

  Allison DuBois (2008). “Don't Kiss Them Goodbye”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Wisdom, Buddhism, Compassion

  Robert Thurman (1999). “Inner Revolution”, p.28, Penguin

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• Becoming enlightened doesn't mean everything works your way.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Enlightenment, Way

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• Becoming enlightened is not special, but it's unusual.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Special, Becoming

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• The saying "no self, no problem" probably comes from Zen. In their cultures, where Buddhism is kind of taken for granted, as well as karma, causality, former and future life, and the possibility for becoming enlightened, then it's safe to skirt the danger of nihilism, which would be, I don't exist because Buddha said I have no self, and therefore I have no problem because I don't exist. That would be a bad misunderstanding. But in those cultures, it would not be as easy to have that understanding as it would be here in the west, where we really are nihilistic.

  Robert Thurman

  Karma, Taken, Buddhism

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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