Quotes about Enlightenment

I've got a letter from the Dalai Lama at home.

Growing up means putting aside our egocentricity for truth.

Before the truth sets you free, it tends to make you miserable.

He writes to his friends in Ephesus: I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened. When people ask you what the Bible is about, do you answer: It's about becoming more enlightened? Because that's how Paul puts it.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.

The final goal of all religions is to realise the essential oneness.

God not only loves the obedient - He enlightens them.

There is no holy life. There is no war between good and evil. There is no sin and no redemption. None of these things matter to the real you. But they all matter hugely to the false you, the one who believes in the separate self. You have tried to take your separate self, with all its loneliness and anxiety and pride, to the door of enlightenment. But it will never go through, because it is a ghost.

Suffering contains a hidden spiritual message. It exists until the message is heard.