Quotes and Sayings About Enlightenment
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Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretence. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.
-- AdyashantiSource : Adyashanti (2010). “The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment”, p.103, Sounds True
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Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.Â
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It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life.
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Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.
-- Adyashanti -
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We need to learn that truth consists not in correct doctrine, but in correct doctrine plus the inward enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.
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The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation.
-- Alan Cohen -
Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand.
-- Alan Cohen -
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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 WattsSource : Alan Watts (1973). “This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience”, Vintage
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You can't buy enlightenment, but you can hire a mirror so you can watch it happen.
-- Alek Wek -
Self-interest is hostile to the common good, but enlightened self-interest is not. And this is the best key to the meaning of enlightenment.
-- Allan BloomSource : Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.167, Simon and Schuster
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It can be made only when one recognizes the ground of being itself, when one recognizes directly that One is All.
-- Amit Goswami -
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Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through commerce and innovation. Societies like the Dutch Republic and the United States used tolerance to become a magnet for enterprising immigrants.
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Man has, since the Enlightenment, dealt with things he should have ignored.
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The more we try and understand enlightenment the more it will elude us. And that's because enlightenment does not come from the mind. It comes form 'no-mind.' It comes form just being. You are already enlightened. You just have to realize it to allow it into your experience.
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No single step in the persuit of enlightenment should ever be considered sacred; only the search was.
-- Ann Druyan -
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The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
-- Anne Lamott -
Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom...is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go. -Anthony Bourdain
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It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn. Maybe that's enlightenment enough - to know that there is no final resting place of the mind, no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom, at least for me, means realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.
-- Anthony BourdainSource : "Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations" - Macchu Picchu,
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Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
-- Anthony de Mello -
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When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.
-- Atifete Jahjaga -
You must continue to go back to the beginning, to the foundation, and question the foundation. Even once you‘ve reached Samadhi you must go back so you can create it at will. Samadhi is the beginning of spiritual growth, not the end. You must always be questioning. Enlightenment comes as an accident at first, then you have to learn to recreate it.
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Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own enlightenment.
-- Ben ShahnSource : Ben Shahn (1957). “The Shape of Content”, p.9, Harvard University Press
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Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all
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The real pleasure,the real peace, Â the real enlightenment is to give. The more you give the more you get. If you give 10, you get 100.
-- Bikram Choudhury -
Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.
-- Bill RichardsonSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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You are asking yourself, as all of us must: 'Who am I?' . . . 'Where am I?' . . . 'Whence do I go?' The process of enlightenment is usually slow. But, in the end, our seeking always brings a finding. These great mysteries are, after all, enshrined in complete simplicity.
-- Bill W. -
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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
-- Bodhidharma