Enlightenment Principles Quotes

Everyone has the fire, but the champions know when to ignite the spark.

~ Amit Ray

The sun consumes even itself to give light to a dark world, do likewise.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Bless the world with your mind, heal the world with your heart, lift the world with your soul; elevate the world with your life.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The self is a subjective entity created by our thoughts and deeds. All sense of happiness and emotional wellbeing turns upon how a person organizes their stream of consciousness into a creation and development of a positive or negative self-image.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The pathos of the human life teaches one that idolatry of the ego is a sham. Only by living in harmonious accord with the entire world can a person distill happiness that flows from cultivating a state of mindfulness.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Gratitude enables you to be fearless, and to never shy away from reveling in every moment of your life.

~ Janice Anderson

Enlightenment is the transformation that brings out the highest human qualities. It is the process that removes the clouds of negativity and brings the colors of peace, compassion and kindness.

~ Amit Ray

A person achieves enlightenment only through a purposeful engagement with life and by resolutely searching for truth and shedding artifices.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Take all men as your brothers, all women as your sisters, and all children as your sons and daughters.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Shine your light at all times, you never know who you are leading out of the dark.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A person must escape artificial constraints and unfold the myth of their own being. There is only one path for a thinking person in life, and that is to assume the role of a compassionate observer. I can only achieve personal freedom – liberty of the mind, body, and soul – by stop worrying about how other people perceive me and no longer judge myself in terms of fame and fortune.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Teach the ignorant. Study the wise. Avoid the foolish. Embrace the enlightened.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Your mind shines brightest when you enlighten others; your heart, when you encourage others; your soul, when you elevate others; and your life, when you empower others.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The tangible and factual components of reality along with the intangible strands of memory and imagination constitute the framework that houses our vital life force. A person is likewise composed of contradictory and complementary forces of pain and pleasure, darkness and lightness, and clashing and harmonizing bands of thoughts and feelings. The web and root of all persons consists of both the expressible and the unsayable. Who has not held imaginary conversations with gods, devils, and spirits? Persons whom enthusiastically cultivate an inner life, ardently experience the quick of nature, and willingly immerse themselves in all aspects of everyday living will experience renewal. Analogous to the heat source of fire, we need the spark of desire to fuel our hearts and the spirit of the breeze to spread our heart songs.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Every day is an opportunity to stand in awe when witnessing the overpowering presence of nature, an apt time to pay reverence for the inestimable beauty of life. I must remain mindful to live in an ethical manner by paying attention to the threat of injustice towards other people and resist capitulating to the absurdity of being a finite body born into infinite space and time. I am part of the world, a spar in a sacred composition, a body of energy suspended in the cosmos. I seek to create a poetic personal testament to life. When I pivot and turn away from fixating upon the cruel artifices of my encysted orbit to face and outwardly embrace the cleansing swirl of heaven’s windmill, I feel gusting in the shank of my marrow the thump of onrushing primordial truths, the electric flush of those ineffable couplets of life that one may not utter.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Enlightenment is making friendship with the whole existence.

~ Amit Ray

There are twenty one mystical dimensions of consciousness. Enlightenment is abiding in the highest three dimensions of consciousness.

~ Amit Ray

Enlightenment is blossoming the thousand petaled lotus flower on the top of the head.

~ Amit Ray

Enlightenment is the complete flowering of body, mind and the soul.

~ Amit Ray

The path towards living in a spiritual manner begins by eliminating inculcated cultural biases, destroying personal illusions, and gratefully accepting the world without sentimental artifice. Emotional detachment provides for clarity of vision.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Enlightenment is making every cell, gene and DNA as the radiator of peace and harmony.

~ Amit Ray

We cannot achieve personal enlightenment – a clarification of our souls – until we cease deluding ourselves. We must accept that life includes witnessing and personally experiencing pain.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

It is ultimately the ebony of our pain, our blackest monuments, which lead us to seek an enlightened way of living. We are unable to hear the voice leading to our own salvation until we fall into the depths of an abbess manufactured by living a heedless life. From this state of floundering in the gloomy lagoon, we can awaken to find the light bearing the seeds of truth that will redeem us. Looking inward, we overcome stubborn resistance, and we revivify long lost and forgotten powers. The experience of soul-searching perspicacity transfigures us. We might even feel as if we died a spiritual death and then we were reborn. From our dark pit, a shaft of light emerges.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Dissimilar from acquiring riches and fame, which are largely products of providence, we self-manufacture our own lot of goodness. If we ground everything we do upon a moral principle and especially love, affection, and compassion, we might not accomplish all the goals that we hoped to achieve, but we will not be hampered with unyielding regret or remorse for the effort expended. If we approach each stage in life with true passion, then each step along a broken or straight path is at least honest. If we honor the commitments that we make to ourselves and act to honor all our personal obligations with other people by devoting our entire intelligence, drive, and vital life force, and do not waste our effort on greedy, wanton, or wasteful activities, we shall grow stronger. Judicious deployment of personal resources ensures that we shall experience a sense of renewal at each important milepost along the way. If we maintain our vow of faith and love people freely, an internal lightness will guide us in our time of uncertainly.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

From this we conclude, that, to live in harmony and peace…we must trace a line of distinction between those (assertions) that are capable of verification, and those that are not; (we must) separate by an inviolable barrier the world of fantastical beings from the world of realities.

~ Constantin-François Volney

An enlightened person strives to live a meaningful life, defined by their personal humility joy, passion, and profound reverence for life.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Noble leaders choose: wisdom over wealth, knowledge over fame, understanding over honor, virtue over titles, and people over power.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Light poured out multiplies light poured in.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Each of us is impermanent wave of energy folded into the infinite cosmic order. Acknowledgement of the fundamental impermanence of ourselves unchains us from the strictures of living a terrestrial life stuck like a needle vacillating between the magnetic pull of endless desire and the terror of death. Once we achieve freedom from any craving and all desires and we are relieved of all titanic fears, we release ourselves from living in perpetual distress. Once we rid ourselves from any impulse to exist, we discover our true place in the universal order. The composition of our life filament is exactly right when we accept the notion of living and dying with equal stoicism.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Witnessing is not flowing with the current of the river but observing the flow from the bank of the river.

~ Amit Ray

Witnessing is the alchemy of enlightenment. It can transform mud into gold.

~ Amit Ray

We each possess the ability creatively to respond to the ontological mystery of our existence.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Enlightenment is tuning our consciousness to music of the universe.

~ Amit Ray

You got to die for 'It'. Or you'll remain a religious nutcase. In other words, a dickhead, nitwit.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Light only benefits one whose eyes are open.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Only in duality consciousness we witness this-that thing. In reality, a unity consciousness runs as the very soul of every little thing.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Love pouring out of you is evidence of God pouring into you.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

First rule of spirituality - thou shall not believe in your own bullshit.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

How did I get 'IT'? - By crying, begging, yelping! - Any of this helping?

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

It is up to each one of us to immunize ourselves from any disabling bolts of anger and defend ourselves from the thunderstorms of hatred. No matter how maliciously anyone might act towards us, humankinds’ ability to express empathy, compassion, and mercy is the only life-sustaining panacea. Whenever we foster empathy and compassion and display mercy towards other people, we overcome the vilest actions and greatest atrocities committed by other persons. If we love everyone, we can never feel victimized or hate anyone. If we love ourselves, we will never act in a degrading manner.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster