Enlightenment Quotes - Page 6

• Enlightenment is finding that there is nothing to find. Enlightenment is to come to know that there is nowhere to go. Enlightenment is the understanding that this is all, that this is perfect, that this is it. Enlightenment is not an achievement, it is an understanding that there is nothing to achieve, nowhere to go. You are already there - you have never been away. You cannot be away from there. God has never been missed. Maybe you have forgotten, that's all. Maybe you have fallen asleep, that's all.

  Rajneesh

  God, Spiritual, Knowing

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• Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Motivational, Relationship

  Gautama Buddha, “Joy”

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• Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.

  Anthony de Mello

  Cooperation, Inevitable, Absolutes

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• Many of us have a tendency to deny any negative feelings. We judge them as "bad" or "unenlightened" when, in fact, they are our stepping stone to enlightenment. Our so-called negative feelings or attitudes are really parts of ourselves that need recognition, love, and healing. Not only is it safe and healthy to acknowledge and accept all of our feelings and beliefs, it is necessary, if we are to get in touch with the fears and pockets of blocked energy that are holding us back from what we want.

  Shakti Gawain

  Attitude, Healing, Judging

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• Don't move. Just die over and over. Don't anticipate. Nothing can save you now because you have only this moment. Not even enlightenment will help you now because there are no other moments. With no future, be true to yourself and express yourself fully. Don't move.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Spiritual, Moving, Helping

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• When we understand clearly that inner peace is the real source of happiness, and how, through spiritual practice, we can experience progressively deeper levels of inner peace, we will develop tremendous enthusiasm to practice

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.9, Tharpa Publications UK

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• Healing comes when the individual remembers his or her identity—the purpose chosen in the world of ancestral wisdom—and reconnects with that world of Spirit.

  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Healing

  Malidoma Patrice Somé (1999). “The healing wisdom of Africa: finding life purpose through nature, ritual, and community”, J P Tarcher

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  Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive - that you can touch the miracle of being alive - then that is a kind of enlightenment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Miracle, Alive, Kind

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March, 2010.

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• 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

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Unique

  Deepak Chopra (2012). “Spiritual Solutions: Answers to Life's Greatest Challenges”, p.4, Harmony

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• Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.

  Larry Dossey

  Life, Spiritual, Garden

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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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• 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

  Love, Sympathy, Religious

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• The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Attitude, Jewels, Soul

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria

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• Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Depression, Valentines Day, Opportunity

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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• After enlightenment, the laundry.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Laundry

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• 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.

  Gautama Buddha

  Believe, Buddhism, Sky

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• The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Past, Obstacles, Enlightened

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• Enlightenment is your ego's greatest disappointment.

  Wayne Dyer

  Disappointment, Ego

  Dyer, Wayne (2005). “Everyday Wisdom”, p.71, Hay House, Inc

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• We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

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• We live in a world shaped by the ambiguous legacy of the Enlightenment...[it] enlarged the scope of human freedom, prepared our minds for the scientific method, made man the measure of all things, and placed individual consent front and center on the political stage.

  James Q. Wilson

  Men, Political, Mind

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• So the single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Journey, Mind, Steps

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.21, New World Library

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• A better name for nirvana might be endless love. Love not even in the sense that we see it if we're watching the romantic movie, but love in a sense of no absence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Names, Might, Absence

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• My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness.

  Terence McKenna

  Ideas, Ego, Tao

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