Enlightenment Quotes Quotes

We cradle in our nucleus emotional ingots gathered through studied immersion of the incongruities of life. In an elusive quest to disinter meaning out of life, we must cull joy from our daily rituals while conscientiously striving to nourish the nucleus of our buried innate essence. By discovering inner peace blossoming amongst the rubble of daily life, while determinedly searching out the cytoplasm our innate essence, a person’s reveals their inspirational tranquility.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Raise your thoughts, not your fists.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You become strong by lifting others up, not pulling them down.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Stars do not shine on their friends alone.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

It is not the fault of the stars that they shine brightly, but the fault of our eyes that they cannot handle light.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

It is the ultimate religion, through which all humans neuropsychologically morph into Buddhas, or Enlightened Beings.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The biggest impediment to loving life is our inflated egos. Only by suppressing our ego and controlling our selfish thoughts can we truly comprehend the immaculate beauty of every day unfolding before us.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Ruthless destruction of an ego is a rather simple matter. Preserving the host deprived of an ego is a more delicate affair. How does a person engage in momentous battle with the self while simultaneously struggling to maintain their cerebral, emotive, and spiritual equilibrium in the thin air of consciousness? How assiduously does an agitated mind need to work in order to achieve the elusive degree of emotional and mental quietness that I seek?

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Be the sun in someone’s dark sky.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The ambitious strive to be well known, the enlightened strive to be worth knowing.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A wise person makes one error,and learns ten lessons.He makes two errors,and learns twenty lessons.He makes three errors,and learns thirty lessons.He makes few errors,and learns countless lessons.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Help more than is needed.Care more than is required.Give more than is expected.Love more than is anticipated.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Enlightenment is coming out from the fear mode, victim mode and guilt mode of living to the mode of empowerment.

~ Amit Ray

The supreme artist lives as closely as possible to replicating the perfect dream, with life unfolding in a manner that a person could never conceive or direct.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

A person only experiences the fathomlessly beautiful and mysterious particulars that constitute reality by giving up the distorting spectacles of our egotistical appetites and repulsive pretensions, shedding artificial attachments, living without grand illusions, and free of deceptive delusions.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

We can only hope to live a meaningful life by serving as earnest witnesses to life’s tragic beauty.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The Enlightenment, finally, invented progressive 'history' as an inner-worldly purgatory in order to develop the conditions of possibility of a perfected 'society'. This provided the required setting for the aggressive social theology of the Modern Age to drive out the political theology of the imperial eras. What was the Enlightenment in its deep structure if not an attempt to translate the ancient rhyme on learning and suffering - mathein pathein - into a collective and species-wide phenomenon? Was its aim not to persuade the many to expose themselves to transitional ordeals that would precede the great optimization of all things?

~ Peter Sloterdijk

The greatest challenge in life is to be our own person and accept that being different is a blessing and not a curse. A person who knows who they are lives a simple life by eliminating from their orbit anything that does not align with his or her overriding purpose and values. A person must be selective with their time and energy because both elements of life are limited.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The highest degree of human attainment comes when a person is blissfully at peace with his or her own nature and the natural world.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Life flows at ease whenever a person ceases complaining about the past, worrying about the future, lives in the now without resisting pain, and accepts the moral sublimity of living in a state of grace.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

A person must always be ready to kindle the candle in their heart and fill the void in their soul by unveiling into a courageous, peaceful, and loving person.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

A person desires to leave a mark of goodness on earth before death arrives. All artists are creators in the face of death. All of life a person seeks to salvage something worthwhile and enduring from living a tragic life. We must eventually dance with death. A person begins on a road leading to personal enlightenment by giving up false beliefs, quelling destructive desires, overcoming fearfulness, and by seeking truth. In order to lead an evocative life full of truth, I must stop living a false life, conquer my fearfulness, and begin expressing love, wonder, and gratitude for all the beauty and splendor of the world.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Enlightenment is something that you've been resisting to happen. It’s not something you have to struggle to make happen. The key is not to get in the way! Just allow it occur.

~ Amit Ray

I have spent much of my adult life trying to figure out how to experience holiness, and now I know that the struggle to figure things out is antithetical to the experience. You simply relax into holiness the way you would a warm bath.

~ Victor Shamas

The ego is the seeker but does not want the Truth.

~ Maria Erving

Spiritual awakening is not really spiritual at all.

~ Maria Erving

Serenity of mind produces an expanding awareness that fosters creative selflessness, which in turn enables us to experience unabashed harmony communing in rhythmical bliss with nature.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Detachment is a basic requirement for seeking enlightenment. Anyone or anything we are attached to has power to manipulate us although we all have freedom to choose.

~ Hina Hashmi

Only love can be shared, and the attempt to 'share' an illusion is literally impossible.

~ David Hoffmeister

Faith has answers that the ears can't always hear.

~ Margie Mersky

Timeless wisdom brings timeless blessings.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

To be ignorant is to be in the dark,to be wise is to be in the light.An illiterate person is disabled intellectually,an unenlightened person is handicapped spiritually.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

There's no point in knowing without enlightenment, yet edified insights arouse movement.

~ Jt Sanz

The evil components of our shadow are the part of us that we deplore, the part of us that we prefer not to admit. One must set themselves free from all inhibitions in order to initiate close encounters with their innermost monster. By standing toe-to-toe with the part of ourselves that we most detest, a person is in a position to slay their fiendish sense of self and, by doing so, undergo a soulful transformation.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Ignorance is the greatest slave master in the universe.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Not all slaves are poor, and not all free men are rich.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

It is easier to kill a million armed men than a single unarmed idea.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Sages shine so they can see the world, not so the world can see them.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Light is a masterpiece, but is of little value if you are blind.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A book is a small library you can fit into your pocket.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo