Enlightenment Quotes - Page 26

• Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being. 

  Adyashanti

  Natural, Ends, States

  Adyashanti (2012). “True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness”, p.11, Sounds True

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• Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.

  Adyashanti

  Mean, Waking, Wake Up

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness

  Adyashanti

  Consciousness, States, States Of Consciousness

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• The Buddha's insight into the middle way is not simply about a balance between extremes. This conventional understanding misses the deeper revelation of the middle way as being the very nature of unexcelled enlightenment. The middle way is an invitation to leap beyond nirvana and samsara and to realize the unborn Buddha mind right in the middle of everywhere.

  Adyashanti

  Missing, Understanding, Mind

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• 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

  Self, Perfect, Enlightening

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• Total relaxation is the ultimate. That's the moment when one becomes a buddha. That is the moment of realization, enlightenment, christ-consciousness. You cannot be totally relaxed right now. At the innermost core a tension will persist.

  Rajneesh

  Christ Consciousness, Relaxation, Realization

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• Your enlightenment is more powerful than your ignorance.

  Swami Nithyananda

  Powerful, Ignorance, Unity

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• Liberals have a set of folk theories that are fallacious. One of them comes from the Enlightenment, and the assumption is that you are supposed to be logical. They assume all you have to do is tell people the facts and they will reason to the right conclusion. This is utterly ridiculous. Thought is mainly metaphorical. The frames trump all the facts.

  George Lakoff

  People, Political, Facts

  "Why Liberals Lose". Interview with Katy Butler, katybutler.com. December 24, 2003.

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• 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

  Real, Character, Individuality

  "The Lessons of History". Book by Will Durant and Ariel Durant, 1968.

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• My dear brothers, never forget, when you hear the progress of enlightenment vaunted, that the devil's best trick is to persuade you that he doesn't exist!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Brother, Progress, Devil

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• The succession of thoughts appears in time, but the gap between two of them is outside time. The gap itself is normally unobserved. The chance of enlightenment is missed.

  Paul Brunton

  Two, Gaps, Chance

  Paul Brunton (1988). “Advanced contemplation: The peace within you”, Larson Pubn

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• The true Enlightenment thinker, the true rationalist, never wants to talk anyone into anything. No, he does not even want to convince; all the time he is aware that he may be wrong. Above all, he values the intellectual independence of others too highly to want to convince them in important matters. He would much rather invite contradiction, preferably in the form of rational and disciplined criticism. He seeks not to convince but to arouse - to challenge others to form free opinions.

  Karl Popper

  Free Opinion, Challenges, Intellectual

  "On Freedom (All Life is Problem Solving)". Essay by Karl Popper, translated by Patrick Camiller, 1994.

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• Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment.'

  David Brin

  Contamination

  "Glory Season". Book by David Brin, 1993.

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• Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.

  Nikola Tesla

  Natural, Universal, Consequence

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

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• We need to learn that truth consists not in correct doctrine, but in correct doctrine plus the inward enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Doctrine, Needs, Inward

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• People say that practicing Zen is difficult, but there is a misunderstanding as to why. It is not difficult because it is hard to sit in the cross- legged position, or to attain enlightenment. It is difficult because it is hard to keep our mind pure and our practice pure in its fundamental sense.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Practice, People, Mind

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.1, Shambhala Publications

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• Although we have no actual written communications from the world of emptiness, we have some hints or suggestions about what is going on in that world, and that is, you might say, enlightenment.  When you see plum blossoms or hear the sound of a small stone hitting bamboo, that is a letter from the world of emptiness.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Communication, Sound, Suggestions

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• People imagine enlightenment will make them incredibly powerful. And it does. It makes you the most powerful being in all the universe- but usually no one else notices.

  Brad Warner

  Powerful, People, Doe

  Brad Warner (2015). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Two, Everyday, Consciousness

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• The zazen I speak of is not learning meditation. It is simply the Dharma gate of repose and bliss, the practice-realization of totally culminated enlightenment. It is the manifestation of ultimate reality. Traps and snares can never reach it. Once its heart is grasped, you are like the dragon when he gains the water, like the tiger when she enters the mountain. For you must know that just there (in zazen) the right Dharma is manifesting itself and that, from the first, dullness and distraction are struck aside.

  Dogen

  Heart, Reality, Dragons

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• To study the Way is to study the Self. To study the Self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things of the universe. To be enlightened by all things of the universe is to cast off the body and mind of the self as well as those of others. Even the traces of enlightenment are wiped out, and life with traceless enlightenment goes on forever and ever

  Dogen

  Self, Forever, Mind

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• I came to the conclusion that we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask. Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Order, Consciousness

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• It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself.

  Laozi

  Teacher, Discovery, Know Yourself

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• My mother's a Buddhist. In Buddhism, if you want to achieve enlightenment, you have to do it through meditation and self-improvement through the mind. That's something she's passed on to me: to be able to calm myself down and use my mind as my main asset.

  Tiger Woods

  Mother, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.

  Kenneth Burke

  People, Progress, Vicious

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