Quotes about Enlightenment

That's the greatest miracle, and ultimately the only one: that you awaken from the dream of separation and become a different kind of person. People are constantly concerning themselves with what they do: have I achieved enough, written the greatest screenplay, formed the most powerful company? But the world will not be saved by another great novel, great movie, or great business venture. It will only be saved by the appearance of great people.

Relationships are assignments. They are part of a vast plan for our enlightenment, the Holy Spirit's blueprint by which each individual soul is led to greater awareness and expanded love. Relationships are the Holy Spirit's laboratories in which He brings together people who have the maximal opportunity for mutual growth. He appraises who can learn most from whom at any given time, and then assigns them to each other. Like

Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone, and as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Enlightened people don't have anything we don't have. They have perfect love inside, and so do we. The difference is that they don't have anything else.

THE DIVINE MIND "God has lit your mind Himself, and keeps your mind lit by His Light because His Light is what your mind is.

Eastern religions tell us that if we go for God, all that is not authentically ourselves will drop.

God has lit your mind Himself, and keeps your mind lit by His Light because His Light is what your mind is.

As I began to study A Course in Miracles, I discovered the following things: God is the love within us.

Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all.

The cultivation of the intellect is man's highest good and purest happiness

Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.

Each step along the Buddha's path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life.