Enlightenment Quotes

Learning and knowing something is cool, but superb knowledge comes when you leave your books and become the inner world's friend.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The purpose of life is the lesson.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Few ever found enlightenment in haste, and nobody will ever discover it in gibberish

~ Chris Murray

For thousands of years humans were oppressed— as some of us still are— by the notion that the universe is a marionette whose strings are pulled by a god or gods, unseen and inscrutable. Then, 2,500 years ago, there was a glorious awakening in Ionia: on Samos and the other nearby Greek colonies that grew up among the islands and inlets of the busy eastern Aegean Sea. Suddenly there were people who believed that everything was made of atoms; that human beings and other animals had sprung from simpler forms; that diseases were not caused by demons or the gods; that the Earth was only a planet going around the Sun. And that the stars were very far away.

~ Carl Sagan

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget.

~ Barry López

You see, unlearning is a very important process towards becoming enlightened, because in this life you will have learned wrong ways and those wrong ways that you have learned are barriers blocking you from becoming who you really are, therefore it is vital that they are unlearned.

~ Andrew James Pritchard

I'm simply saying that there is a way to be sane. I'm saying that you can get rid of all this insanity created by the past in you. Just by being a simple witness of your thought processes. It is simply sitting silently, witnessing the thoughts, passing before you. Just witnessing, not interfering not even judging, because the moment you judge you have lost the pure witness. The moment you say “this is good, this is bad,” you have already jumped onto the thought process. It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once the gap is there, you are in for a great surprise, that you are not the mind, that you are the witness, a watcher. And this process of watching is the very alchemy of real religion. Because as you become more and more deeply rooted in witnessing, thoughts start disappearing. You are, but the mind is utterly empty.That’s the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being.

~ Osho

Enlightenment is tuning our consciousness to music of the universe.

~ Amit Ray

But these trees don’t grow impatiently. They move with a grace, with patience, with trust. There is no hurry anywhere else except in your mind. If you really want to be in a state of peace and joy, you will have to unlearn your old habit for achieving things quickly

~ Osho

Enlightenment comes when you understand the language of heart - the language of tree, birds and the nature.

~ Amit Ray

The path to inner peace already exists. It was forged by others before us.

~ Lynne Cockrum-Murphy

And suddenly you realize: you are in every dot of the universe vanishing and arising.

~ Amit Ray

I want to talk about another kind of high country now in the world of thought, which in some ways, for me at least, seems to parallel or produce feelings similar to this, and call it the high country of the mind.If all of human knowledge, everything that’s known, is believed to be an enormous hierarchic structure, then the high country of the mind is found at the uppermost reaches of this structure in the most general, the most abstract considerations of all.Few people travel here. There’s no real profit to be made from wandering through it, yet like this high country of the material world all around us, it has its own austere beauty that to some people makes the hardships of traveling through it seem worthwhile.In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty, and to the enormous magnitude of questions asked, and to the answers proposed to these questions. The sweep goes on and on and on so obviously much further than the mind can grasp one hesitates even to go near for fear of getting lost in them and never finding one’s way out.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

Every time I gaze at stars above, I feel small, big, infinite and connected all at the same time, and tonight on the Amazon is no different.

~ Michael Sanders

I feel part of the environment, not separate from it, as though I’m at home rather than visiting—as though I’m tapped into some eternal omnipresence beyond the transient physical forms.

~ Michael Sanders

I sit up and stare with eyes closed, perceiving the infinity of this dimension, so grateful to experience this, comfortable with the idea of this journey either ending shortly or continuing forever.

~ Michael Sanders

...after much practice and struggle, you come to feel for yourself that enlightenment is not only possible, but in process.

~ Narissa Doumani

Trust what is not known to your Mind. Trust what is known to your Heart.

~ Tony Samara

The Beloved is Always There, Actively Seeking You.

~ Tony Samara

When we understand that Peace is a state of mind we understand true Peace.

~ Tony Samara

The practice is simple. Whatever you're doing, do that with total awareness.

~ Tony Samara

When you deeply love someone from that space that is beyond attachment to certain projections or desires, when you love someone just deeply, totally, completely, without any games that the mind or emotions play, then that love remains eternal in the heavens forever, and that is what pulls you back to remembering that love.

~ Tony Samara

The activity of loving kindness is the bridge that allows you to slowly, slowly realise the wisdom and perfection of this moment.

~ Tony Samara

Satisfaction doesn't come from needs and desires or fulfilling them, it comes from being yourself, being true.

~ Tony Samara

Everything is temporary but the power of Love is Infinite because it is the space, it is Everything.

~ Tony Samara

Spiritual practice is allowing the temple (your body) to be full of light and to live life as a total celebration.

~ Tony Samara

The Divine has created this moment in time. It is a very powerful moment, where there is only one way and that way is that you completely let go. Completely let go of what is known, what is safe, and move into the space of beauty.

~ Tony Samara

Wisdom is a true activity of compassion. And so, meditation is the act of loving kindness. It is the activity where loving kindness is applied on all levels.

~ Tony Samara

Remember meditation is an active, deep remembrance, and that is discernment. Wherever you go, wherever you are, whatever you're doing, remember to utilize discernment so that you can hear and sense and feel the vibration of love rather than the vibration of illusion.

~ Tony Samara

The way to Bliss is through Understanding, through Wisdom.

~ Tony Samara

Where ego comes in, loving kindness departs. So wherever there is ego, there is very little space for true bliss and true happiness because true bliss and true happiness isn't exclusive to the attachments the ego enjoys playing with, but rather a free state of mind that is part of loving kindness and its activities inside and outside of oneself.

~ Tony Samara

The natural consequence of being connected to the depth, what I call the soul, or your essence, is the attribute of joy.

~ Tony Samara

True freedom is when all the stories, all the insights, all the realizations, concepts, beliefs and positions dissolve. What remains is what you are; a vast, conscious, luminous space simply resting in itself, not knowing a thing, at the point where all things are possible.

~ Enza Vita

When you are truly awakened, you have completely stopped trying to become awakened. You simply are. You know that you did not locate awakening; awakening located you.

~ Enza Vita

All paths are valid, but in the end you will find that the realization of the ultimate truth is a pathless path.

~ Enza Vita

Being enlightened ironically means realizing that there is no separate entity that can be enlightened or unenlightened.

~ Enza Vita

It’s only the ego that wants to surrender the ego, the real meaning of surrender does not involve anything external. It means to surrender to your true nature.

~ Enza Vita

Realization includes everything, the mundane and the transcendental. In true awakening, nothing stands apart and nothing is excluded. If we find ourselves in a state where something is excluded, that state, however amazing it is, is still a dualistic state.

~ Enza Vita

You aren’t actually a someone, a person, who is conscious. You are the awake space of awareness itself, within which all the “thought up” entities in your world appear. Out of all these imagined entities, you have simply made the mistake of thinking that one of them is you.

~ Enza Vita

Realization is not about you, the wave, realizing it is ocean. The ocean realizes itself in you and reveals itself to have never been just a wave. Nothing changes except the falling away of a false belief.

~ Enza Vita