Enlightenment Quotes

• The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Ideas, Oneness

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.12, New World Library

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• Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

  Idries Shah

  Spiritual, Littles, Enlightened

  Idries Shah (1999). “The Sufis”, p.124, Octagon Press Ltd

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• Do not try to correct the mind. Trying to correct the mind is like trying to correct the waves in the ocean. Can you stop the waves in the ocean? If you want to see an ocean without waves you only have to dive deeper. When you dive deep inside you will experience the stillness of the ocean. And if it is all frozen that is enlightenment.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Ocean, Mind, Trying

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• Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.

  Laozi

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Self Esteem

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• If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is 'the quiet acceptance of what is'.

  Wayne Dyer

  Acceptance, Quiet, Enlightened

  Wayne W. Dyer (2010). “Real Magic: Creating Miracles in Everyday Life”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Leadership, Uplifting

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• The inward journey is about finding your own fullness, something that no one else can take away.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Twitter post from Jan 7, 2014

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• Enlightenment is not the process of learning 'new' information. It is the process of 'reminding' ourselves that the answers are already 'within our consciousness'. All knowledge, all energy, all information is within us, not outside of us. it always has been and always will be.

  Eric Allen

  Positive Thinking, Being Positive, Energy

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• Be kind to yourself as you proceed along this journey. This kindness, in itself, is a means of awakening the spark of love within you and helping others to discover that spark within themselves.

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Love, Life, Spiritual

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• Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Disappointment, Freedom, Ego

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• Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength.

  Laozi

  Strength, Self Confidence, Knowing

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

  Carl Jung

  Love Life, Suicidal, Knowledge

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler, Michael Scott Montague Fordham (1973). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Alchemical studies”

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• It is easy to imagine that the Buddha, the awakened one, is something or somewhere other than here or that awakening to reality will happen sometime other than now. But as long as we continue to think in terms of time we will deceive ourselves. The you who is chasing enlightenment will never become enlightened.
  
  Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn't exist?

  Adyashanti

  Time, Reality, Thinking

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• Since pure awareness of nowness is real Enlightenment,
  in openness and contentment I found the Truth in my heart.
  By simply relaxing in this uncontrived, open, and natural state,
  we obtain the quality of effortless freedom of whatever arises.

  Jigdral Yeshe Dorje

  Real, Heart, Meditation

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• There are certain people who people think are enlightened. The problem with the word enlightenment is what you mean by it.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• Enlightenment is the understanding that this is all, that this is perfect, that this is it. Enlightenment is not an achievement, it is an understanding that there is nothing to achieve, nowhere to go.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Letting Go, Perfect

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• Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  "Humor, Play, & Laughter : Stress-proofing Life with Your Kids" by Joseph A. Michelli, (p. 88), 1998.

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• Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Alchemist, Suffering, Gold

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.218, New World Library

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• Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

  William Blake

  Mean, Responsibility, Responsibility For Your Life

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• Not every sky will be blue and not every day is springtime. So on the spiritual path a person learns to find this kind of happiness without needing nice things to happen on the outside. Rather, you find happiness by being who you really are. This isn't mystical. Young children are happy being who they are. The trick is to regain such a state when you are grown and have seen the light and dark sides of life.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Deepak Chopra (2012). “Spiritual Solutions: Answers to Life's Greatest Challenges”, p.130, Harmony

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• The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.

  Ajahn Sumedho

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Ignorant

  "23 Warning Signs of a Toxic Friend" by Ann Davis, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2016.

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• Be - don't try to become. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.

  Rajneesh

  Nice, Ignorance, Being Sad

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• You are here for no other purpose than to realize your inner divinity and manifest your inner enlightenment.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Purpose, Divinity, Realizing

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.3, Shambhala Publications

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• What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife... Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.

  Nikola Tesla

  Pride, Community, Understanding

  Nikola Tesla (2016). “My Inventions: And Other Writings”, p.54, Courier Dover Publications

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• All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Attitude, War

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