Quotes about Enlightenment

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive—that you can touch the miracle of being alive—then that is a kind of enlightenment.

We are imprisoned in our small selves, thinking only of the comfortable conditions for this small self, while we destroy our large self.

A person who looks at the table and can see the universe is a person who can see the way.

Enlightenment is when the wave realizes that it is the ocean.

All concepts, including those of "unity" and of duality, are foreign to experience which can be described as non-conceptual.

The Kingdom of God is a treasure. Once you have touched that treasure, you know that the things you previously considered to be conditions for your happiness are just obstacles.

We ride on the wave of birth and death, and we are free from birth and death.

If the wave does not have to die to become water, then we do not have to die to enter the kingdom of God.

What we lack is not an ideology or a doctrine that will save the world. What we lack is awareness of what we are, of what our true situation really is.

To reach truth is not to accumulate knowledge, but to awaken to the heart of reality. Reality reveals itself complete and whole at the moment of awakening. In the light of this awakening, nothing is added and nothing is lost; but emotions that are based on concepts can no longer affect a man.

Ttheology is not practised apart from faith, prayer and adoration ... The whole subject matter of Christology is most intimately related to the secret of revelation ... the enlightenment of the eyes.

All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.