Quotes about Enlightenment

Two journeys had to be made without companions: the journey to your death and the one to enlightenment.

An integral being knows without going, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing.

When you are living the truth of one reality, every secret reveals itself without effort or struggle.

Every person has two selves, a lower self that is born of flesh and tied to the illusions of the material world, and a higher self that is eternal and unborn, with no attachments at all. The lower self craves pleasure, the higher self knows only bliss. The lower self cringes from pain, the higher self has never felt pain. If that was true, then Gautama had to find his higher self or be lost in the endless quicksand of the mind's deceptions.

You can align yourself with God-consciousness at any given moment by pursuing these glimpses.

As this life evaporated before his eyes, Siddhartha felt a shiver, as if someone had ripped off his winter coat and left him naked in the cold. But he wasn't naked, and far from dead. Instead of the mask of images and memories, surrounding him on every side was something pure and free: life itself. He couldn't remember who he was. There was nothing left of his fears and dreams, nothing to do, nothing to want. He was simply alive, the breath of the breath, the eye of the eye.

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.

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

To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue.