To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something
Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.
Enlightenment is any experience of expanding our consciousness beyond its present limits.
There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.
Remember, the greatest gift to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
There are two obstacles to enlightenment: 1. Thinking you know. 2 Thinking you don't know.
Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.
Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.
God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.
Our sexual lives are maintained by the shadow side and the light side, so the more we can understand and embrace enlightenment, the less need there is for chemical enhancement.
If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation.
All those who slight me to my face, Or do me any other evil, Even if they blame or slander me, May they attain the fortune of enlightenment!
People only see what they are prepared to see.
A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again
If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
When you continuously know and sense yourself as the space of consciousness rather than what appears in consciousness - sense perceptions, thoughts, emotions - then it can be said that you are enlightened... except that you wouldn't think or speak of yourself as 'enlightened', because that would instantly create another mind-based conceptual identity and so it would be the end of 'your' enlightenment.
The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.
You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
And when you talk about realization, accomplishment for that matter enlightenment is that when you realize the fundamental essence of your mind.
Enlightenment is the food that eats you.
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