Enlightenment Quotes

In so many ways we are still in the dark ages, but there is light appearing over the horizon of choice and consciousness.

~ Bryant Mcgill

True education is enlightenment.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If I have a book that thinks for me, a pastor who acts as my conscience, a physician who prescribes my diet, and so on... then I have no need to exert myself. I have no need to think, if only I can pay; others will take care of that disagreeable business for me.

~ Immanuel Kant

Two things are needed to raise awareness: education and love. And these go hand in hand because we can be taught to love.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Our whole education system is calculated to produce *feelings* in us, impart them to us, instead of leaving their production to ourselves however they may turn out...Thus stuffed with imparted feelings, we appear before the bar of majority and are 'pronounced of age. Our equipment consists of elevating feelings, lofty thoughts, inspiring maxims,eternal principles.

~ Max Stirner

It is better to enlighten men’s minds than to teach them to be obstinate in their prejudices.

~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

I once found an ego, crawling around and trying to shine on me. I took it in my arms and the ego turned itself into a virus. First it took over my mind, then my heart, and finally attempted to destroy my soul by corrupting me with fear and guilt. Therefore, with as much energy as I could gather, I trapped the ego within my anger and pulled it out of me. Once on the floor, the ego begged me for mercy and compassion, promising to give me joy in return. I allowed it once again into my life, and again, it tried to hurt me once more, this time with abandonment. So I unveiled the ego for what it truly was, and that was resentment filled with desire for power, a power the ego was feeding from me, from my compassion and willingness. Now unprotected by deceit, the ego shown itself weak and scared. In panic, it run from me, boasting a delusional victory. And when it looked back, searching for another chance, I stepped on it. But believe me, it hurt me far much more than it hurt the ego.

~ Robin Sacredfire

You occasionally hear it said that spiritual aspirants should drop everything and set off for the woods, or go to India and wander about on the slopes of the Himalayas. But only through daily contact with people--not trees or brooks or deer--can we train ourselves to be selfless in personal relationships.

~ Eknath Easwaran

There are no crash courses on ‘enlightenment’, you only crash in a course like that!!!!

~ Harrish Sairaman

The wider our conscience, the wider the impact of our actions, and I do believe someone with more light has the moral duty to enlighten others.

~ Robin Sacredfire

If women are given the same honor and dignity in society as the men, they will run the society way better than men.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Neglect of women is the major cause for the society’s downfall.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Bringing to light what had been hidden in darkness should not overwhelm you, but EDUCATE you.

~ Solange Nicole

Memories are of the ethereal, and not the material world, that is how I know I am forever.

~ Michael Poeltl

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

Life is fleeting we must master it in the present.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

My experience of that liberation, what Buddha had called Nirvana, set me off in the path of scientific investigation of that Oneness, the thing people call, meeting with God. And that meeting triggered an unquenchable thirst in me to develop a proper scientific method to understand and further explore that apparently bizarre domain of Universal Consciousness.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Forgiveness is the subjective and fertile ground the acorn falls upon when gifted to ourselves and others.

~ Gillian Duce

It is significant comment on the victory of science over magic that were someone to say ‘if I put this pill in your beer it will explode,’ we might believe them; but were they to cry ‘if I pronounce this spell over your beer it will go flat,’ we should remain incredulous and Paracelsus, the Alchemists, Aleister Crowley and all the Magi have lived in vain. Yet when I read science I turn magical; when I study magic, scientific.

~ Cyril Connolly

We are condemned to be modern. We can’t escape the facts of our history or of living in an age dominated by instrumental rationality, even as we look for ways out of it... But it has become our historic responsibility to acknowledge the continuing importance of myth, at a level beyond science, in realizing a more organic, holistic relation to the world. A future social ecology would transcend both anti-Enlightenment reaction and [a] reified Enlightenment counter-reaction, which remain only fragmented polarities within bourgeois modernity.

~ David Watson

Om is not just a sound or vibration. It is not just a symbol. It is the entire cosmos, whatever we can see, touch, hear and feel. Moreover, it is all that is within our perception and all that is beyond our perception. It is the core of our very existence. If you think of Om only as a sound, a technique or a symbol of the Divine, you will miss it altogether. Om is the mysterious cosmic energy that is the substratum of all the things and all the beings of the entire universe. It is an eternal song of the Divine. It is continuously resounding in silence on the background of everything that exists.

~ Amit Ray

Your greatest awakening comes, when you are aware about your infinite nature.

~ Amit Ray

Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done.' We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.

~ Swami Vivekananda

Live simply. Deepest joy is like a flower....beautiful in essence.

~ Tony Samara

Within each of us is a light, awake, encoded in the fibers of our existence. Divine ecstasy is the totality of this marvelous creation experienced in the hearts of humanity

~ Tony Samara

Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate.

~ Huang Po

What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body.

~ Caroline Myss

I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good idea to let him know. After all, if you are a Buddha you should be able to figure it out for yourself.

~ Philip K. Dick

Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.

~ Anthony De Mello

But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.

~ Bodhidharma

The Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence.~ Paramahamsa Nithyananda

~ Paramahamsa Nithyananda

There are those who say that spiritual enlightenment is achieved through the denial of oneself; you must deny yourself many things, go and live in a mountaintop, never mingle with other people, talk to the birds..but I say to you, why should you dismantle your home? Where is the meaning in removing the bricks from your walls one by one? What is the purpose in uprooting your floors? Is there any significance in only allowing yourself a tin roof and a muddy bed? Why deny your house its structure? A truly enlightened soul is strong enough, is bright enough to live and shine through, even in a beautiful house! There is no need to ransack the house in order to see an inner beauty etched against a distraught surrounding. A bright and beautiful soul can shine forth even from inside an equally beautiful surrounding.

~ C. Joybell C.

For most of us enlightenment is not a destination or graduation into a permanent higher state of consciousness, but a moment-by-moment experience constantly fluctuating between degrees of wholeness and limited consciousness. I like to call this “enlightening-ment.

~ Jennifer Howard

The degree to which your Consciousness expands, is the degree to which you understand yourself and the universe.

~ Gina Charles

If there is one ruler that can harmonize and unify the mob of characters [in our astral body], it is the Ego (the Higher Ego, or Self, or Spirit). The more the Ego shines like a sun at the center of gravity of the astral body, the more the different characters start orbiting around it. Instead of working only to satisfy their own selfish desires, the characters start manifesting the purposes of the light and of the Spirit. Instead of plotting for the success of their own ambitions, they start accomplishing the works of the Higher Self... The unveiling of the Self begins a process of unification--a new astral body slowly develops. In this new, or transformed, astral body, the different parts are penetrated by the light of the Self. Therefore they are not only united around the Self, but are also cemented to it... [Before this process], one is nothing more than an appearance: it is the illusion of being one person...

~ Samuel Sagan

As I stumbled into confusion about what was real and what was not, the strangest thing happened: The world disintegrated. Reality collapsed, or my perception of it. It ripped apart like a dry skin under pressure, giving way to something I can only describe as ineffable dimensions, depths upon depths.

~ Stefan Emunds

A spiritual reinterpretation of events gives us miraculous authority to command the winds, to part the waters, and to break all chains that bind us.

~ Marianne Williamson

There's a thin boundary between the light and dark side. Both are fervent to reign in the space of the other.

~ Gloria D. Gonsalves

Take, this day, my handand promise to absolvewhat my forefathers and I didto you and your kin.

~ Gloria D. Gonsalves

Give yourself a break from any holy book andstart looking at others as you want to be looked at.

~ Gloria D. Gonsalves