Enlightenment Quotes - Page 29

• Enlightenment is part of everything and so our minds have to be very big to encompass all things, to understand all things - To see the tao in a grape, the act of sexuality, meditation, work, play, taking a shower, brushing your teeth, being sick and hurting.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hurt, Play, Sick

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• Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

  Laozi

  Motivational, Wisdom, Determination

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• We hear in these days of scientific enlightenment a great deal of discussion about the efficacy of Prayer. Many reasons are given why we should not pray. Others give reasons why we should pray. Very little is said of the reason we do pray. The reason is simple: We pray because we cannot help praying.

  William James

  Prayer, Science, Simple

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• The use of drugs like mescaline may serve an appropriate purpose. Indeed, "Psychedelic" drugs have been widely used in the spiritual traditions of the world, including the Yoga of Patanjali, though they were never advertised as ultimate keys to enlightenment, merely as stepping-stones on the spiritual path.

  Georg Feuerstein

  Spiritual, Yoga, Keys

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• Who can enjoy enlightenment and remain indifferent to suffering in the world? This is not in keeping with the Way. Only those who increase their service along with their understanding can be called men and women of Tao.

  Laozi

  Men, Understanding, Suffering

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists.

  Frederick Franck

  Inspirational, Courage, Real

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• Did you know that according to legend, the guy who became Buddha decided to seek enlightenment the day he got a touch of gray? "Gray hairs," the would-be Buddha said, "are like angels sent by the god of death".

  Anderson Cooper

  Angel, Hair, Guy

  "Going gray" by Anderson Cooper, www.cnn.com. August 2003.

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• The joke of it all is that you are looking from your true nature right now without knowing it. If you would stop being fascinated with the contents of your mind, you would experience what I am saying. Feel your way into what I am saying rather than thinking about it. Only a self-concept looks and longs for God. Drop your self-concept and there is only God meeting God. Enlightenment is the restoration of cosmic humor.

  Adyashanti

  Thinking, Self, Knowing

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• Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Liberty, Technique

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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• The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.

  Zhuangzi

  Mirrors, Attention, Enlightened

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• The person who says, 'I'm enlightened' probably isn't.

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  Ram Dass

  Enlightened, Persons

  Ram Dass (1971). “Remember, now be here, now here be”

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• We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Philosophy, Light, May

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.444

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• Enlightenment is "being," and it grows; it's end is serenity.

  William Gibson

  Serenity, Ends, Grows

  William Gibson (1974). “A season in heaven: being the log of an expedition after that legendary beast, cosmic consciousness”, Scribner

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• Words are a distraction to enlightenment. Getting rid of conceptual thinking means enlightenment.

  Ramesh S Balsekar

  Mean, Thinking, Distraction

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• Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.

  Sharon M. Draper

  Teacher, Moving, Ignorance

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• Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless.

  John Stott

  Christian, Clueless, Jargon

  John Stott (2013). “Your Mind Matters: The Place of the Mind in the Christian Life”, p.13, InterVarsity Press

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• You... are now servants to the ear that needs quiet solace, and the eye that needs the consolation of beauty, servants to the mind that needs desperate repose or pointed inquiry, to the heart that needs invitation to flight or silent understanding, and to the soul that needs safe landing, or fearless, relentless enlightenment.

  Joyce DiDonato

  Heart, Eye, Understanding

  Joyce DiDonato's Commencement Address at the Juilliard School in New York City, New York, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2014.

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• The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity.

  Deepak Chopra

  Degrees, Paradox, Contradiction

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Jan 18, 2012

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• You can't buy enlightenment, but you can hire a mirror so you can watch it happen.

  Alek Wek

  Teacher, Mirrors, Watches

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• Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Religious, Kindness

  "The Dalai Lama, A Policy of Kindness: An Anthology by and about the Dalai Lama" edited by Sidney Piburn, (p. 52), 1990.

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• Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are. And listen to the wind singing in your veins.

  John Welwood

  Wind, Singing, Veins

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• It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life.

  Adyashanti

  Reality, Bliss, Pursuit

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• Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It is the actualization of wisdom, The ultimate truth of the oneness of all things.

  Dogen

  Oneness, Meditation, Way

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• Life is not about focusing on the obstacles. It's about how you handle them, and whether you get enlightenment or levity from the way you do it

  Drew Barrymore

  Way, Obstacles, Life Is

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• Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the way of Glass Beads and Theology, and Maxim Guns and Hymn Books, and Trade Gin and Torches of Progress and Enlightenment (patent adjustable ones, good to fire villages with, upon occasion), and balance the books, and arrive at the profit and loss, so that we may intelligently decide whether to continue the business or sellout the property and start a new Civilization Scheme on the proceeds.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Loss, Gun

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Portable Mark Twain”, p.495, Penguin

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