Enlightenment Quotes

• Because not even the least Dharma is there found or got at. Therefore is it called 'utmost, right and perfect enlightenment'. Self-identical is that Dharma and nothing is therein at variance. Therefore is it called 'utmost, right and perfect enlighten'

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Perfect
  • Enlightenment
  • Variance

• The Zen of doing anything is doing it with a particular concentration of mind, a calmness and simplicity of mind, that brings the experience of enlightenment and, through that experience, happiness.

  

  Chris Prentiss
  • Mind
  • Enlightenment
  • Concentration

• Each river is different, but they all eventually lead to the ocean. No matter what we’re doing or when, or whether it brings us happiness or remorse, gain or loss, we’re all on our individual paths to enlightenment. Even when we’ve done something we consider wrong, we’re still on our path to enlightenment.

  

  Chris Prentiss
  • Ocean
  • River
  • Lead

• Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Culture
  • Barriers
  • Decency

• Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Science
  • Reality
  • Knowledge

• Enlightenment is the Goal – Love is the Game – Taking steps are the rules!

  

  Alan Rufus
  • Love
  • Game
  • Goal

• The religious wars showed that the Christian faith was no longer Europe's unifying force. A new common ground was needed, and it was found in reason, which is something that is shared by all of mankind. This was one of the roots of the Enlightenment and its concept of universal human rights.

  

  Walter Kasper
  • Religious
  • Common
  • Ground

• People mistakenly think that art is about nature, or about an artists feelings about nature. It is instead a path of enlightenment and pleasure, one of many paths, where nature and the artists feelings are merely raw material.

  

  Wolf Kahn
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Pleasure

• Yoga practice seems to be used to access some deeper dimension or some enlightened state. Understand right now there is no connection between flexibility and enlightenment.

  

  Bryan Kest
  • Enlightenment
  • Access
  • Yoga Practice

• Christianity and Judaism have gone through the process of enlightenment, making them creative and constructive elements in society.

  

  Pim Fortuyn
  • Society
  • Enlightenment

• I don't believe that human beings can achieve ultimate enlightenment, because humans have flaws.

  

  Tiger Woods
  • Human Beings
  • Enlightenment

• If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak.

  

  Satish Kumar
  • World
  • Speak
  • Individual

• Western theology invariably asks the question: Are miracles possible? This of course addresses the Enlightenment problem of a closed universe. In much of Asia that is a non-question because the miraculous is assumed and fairly regularly experienced.

  

  Craig S. Keener
  • Question
  • Miracles
  • Theology

• God will not let me get the blessing without asking. Today I am setting my face to fast and pray for enlightenment and refreshing. Until I can get up to the measure of at least two hours in pure prayer every day, I shall not be contented. Meditation and reading besides.

  

  Bonar Law
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Meditation

• Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Water
  • Enlightenment
  • Wood

• Dreams are large possessions ... they are an expansion of life, an enlightenment, and a discipline. I thank God for my dream life; my daily life would be far poorer, if it wanted the second sight of dreams.

  

  Amelia Barr
  • Dream
  • Discipline
  • Possession

• There's also something that is often mistaken for enlightenment which is a kind of insanity. Often, people will have some kind of weird experience which is quite abnormal and think, "Oh my God, that's it, I understand everything" because they start seeing things in a very weird way and think that's how enlightened people see things as well.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Experience
  • Seeing
  • Insanity

• The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.

  

  Will Durant
  • Character
  • Revolution
  • Saints

• Enlightenment is a group activity.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • Activity
  • Enlightenment
  • Groups

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