Enlightenment Quotes - Page 30

• Your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Gone, Use, Limits

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• True enlightenment is nothing but the nature of one's own self being fully realized.

  Dalai Lama

  Self, Self Being

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• I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment.

  Gautama Buddha

  Reason, Supreme

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• If you have a powerful enlightenment experience, do not try to hold on to it, for to do so will take you out of the present moment. You will be caught in the past. You will close the door that gave rise to the experience in the first place.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Powerful, Past, Doors

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• Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.

  Alan Watts

  Awakening, Recognition, Affair

  Alan Watts (1973). “This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience”, Vintage

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• When a fully qualified Mahayana disciple relies completely upon a fully qualified Mahayana Spiritual Guide the attainment of enlightenment is easy.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Spiritual, Easy, Guides

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (1990). “Joyful Path of Good Fortune: The Complete Buddhist Path to Enlightenment”, p.97, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• Enlightenment remains unrealized so long as it is considered as a specific
  state to be attained, and for which there are standards of success.

  Alan Watts

  Long, States, Standards

  Alan W. Watts (2012). “Nature, Man and Woman”, p.132, Vintage

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• I hope you will attain enlightenment. I am here to tell you that you already have! But you don't know... The difference between the Buddha and us is the confidence in knowing that he was enlightened.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Differences, Knowing, Enlightened

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• Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity...No thing is required for this enlightenment.. .except freedom; and the freedom in question is the least harmful of all, namely, the freedom to use reason publicly in all matters.

  Immanuel Kant

  Men, Self, Immaturity

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• Because clarity and enlightenment are within your own nature, they are regained without moving an inch.

  Laozi

  Nature, Moving, Clarity

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

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• There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Truth

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• So I cast my lot with Him-not the one who claimed wisdom, Confucius; or the one who claimed enlightenment, Buddha; or the one who claimed to be a prophet, Muhammad, but with the one who claimed to be God in human flesh. The one who declared, 'Before Abraham was born, I am'-and proved it.

  Norman Geisler

  God, Christian, Wisdom

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• Forces of light on earth shall overcome the force of darkness. Complete spiritual enlightenment on earth will occur.

  Edgar Cayce

  Spiritual, Light, Darkness

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• Your enlightenment depends on the company you keep. You do not know the world until you know the men who have possessed it and tried its wares before you were ever given your brief run upon it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Running, Men, Company You Keep

  Woodrow Wilson (1983). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Retreating from the world
  will not liberate you.
  Happiness is not found in
  a secluded forest hut or isolated cave.
  Enlightenment comes when you
  connect to the world.
  Only when you truly connect with everyone
  and everything else do you become Enlightened.
  Only by going deeply and fully into the world
  do you attain liberation.

  Guo Jun

  Caves, World, Forests

  Guo Jun (2013). “Essential Chan Buddhism: The Character and Spirit of Chinese Zen”, p.13, Monkfish Book Publishing

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• Enlightenment doesn't mean we were never wounded; it means we've found a way to evolve beyond our wounds. Enlightenment isn't idealistic; it's practical. What's idealistic is thinking we can live from our wounds, stay in our weakness, and ever transform the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Mean, Thinking, Weakness

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jun 19, 2013

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• Zen Master Dogen has pointed out that anxiety, when accepted, is the driving force to enlightenment in that it lays bare the human dilemma at the same time that it ignites our desire to break out of it.

  Philip Kapleau

  Anxiety, Desire, Break Out

  Philip Kapleau (1997). “Awakening to Zen: The Teachings of Roshi Philip Kapleau”, Scribner Book Company

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• Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Hate, Light

  "A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings".

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• When we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. We wish to hear only of unequivocal results, and completely forget that these results can only be brought about when we have ventured into and emerged again from the darkness. But to penetrate the darkness we must summon all the powers of enlightenment that consciousness can offer.

  Carl Jung

  Darkness, Wish, Trying

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1972). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• Even my desire to become free or enlightened is just another craving for fulfillment or completion in the future. So don’t seek to become free or desire or “achieve” enlightenment. Become present.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Desire, Enlightened, Achieve

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.31, New World Library

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• An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.

  Adyashanti

  Freedom, Men, Ordinary

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• The recurrence during the eighteenth century Enlightenment of the aspiration to be the 'Newton of the moral sciences' testifies to the prestige not just of celestial mechanics, but of the 'experimental method' more generally.

  Stefan Collini

  Moral, Newton, Prestige

  C. P. Snow, Stefan Collini (2012). “The Two Cultures”, p.10, Cambridge University Press

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• Martin Swinger is one of those rare singer-songwriters who excels at everything: singing, songwriting, guitar-playing, and being so present with his humor, tenderness, and wild mind that his performances are also deep conversations, soul to soul and heart to heart, about the quirks, surprises, and love that brings us most alive. His songs, ranging from the little plastic parts that hold the world together, to what enlightenment comes from Buddha and Betty Boop falling in love, are whimsically and wisely original and enduring.

  Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

  Song, Falling In Love, Heart

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• Enlightenment doesnt occur from sitting around visualizing images of light, but from integrating the darker aspects of the Self into the conscious personality.

  Carl Jung

  Light, Self, Personality

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• Whoever accepts the higher mission of art and comes nearer and nearer to it through his creative activity, will then go on from art to the Spirit deep within his own self... The philosophic search for enlightenment and the artist's search for perfection of work can meet and unite. Art can be a path to spiritual enlightenment but not to complete and lasting enlightenment. It can be born out of, and can give birth itself to, only Glimpses. For art is a search for beauty, which by itself is not enough. Beauty must be supported by virtue and both require wisdom to guide them.

  Paul Brunton

  Spiritual, Art, Self

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