Enlightenment Quotes

“We can only forgive the world to the extent that we forgive ourselves for being in it.”

“We only suffer when we falsely identify with the objects that arise in our awareness, rather than with the awareness itself—when we identify with our thoughts, with our emotions, our personal history, and the many stories we tell ourselves. When you reconnect to your source—the essence of your being, the pure and impartial witness—you become free from all of the troubles of the material world; free from the world of form. You no longer feel the desire to cling to forms or depend on them for your happiness. Instead, you are free to enjoy form, free to let form be, and free to allow all forms to come and go as they please. All forms are impermanent and changing, but your consciousness, being formless, is eternal, and exists regardless of the forms that it gives life to.”

“suffering breaks us until there’s nothing left but gentleness”

“The path to enlightenment is when you allow presence, love and gratitude to overlap your ego.”

“In order to understand why one chooses to be a Tantric practitioner, there has to be an understanding of cause and effect, cyclic existence, the awareness that the reality that we think we are seeing is not reality as it really truly is. So enlightenment is seeing reality with bare awareness, non-conceptual reality.”

“You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.”

“He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.”

“To hate the hate was just more hate; to reject the rejection was just more rejection; to judge the judging, just more judging.”

“It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us." - Tilopa”

“Everything is temporary but the power of Love is Infinite because it is the space, it is Everything.”

“In a way, light unites the spiritual world and the ephemeral, physical world. People frequently talk about spiritual experiences using the vocabulary of light: Saul on the road to Damascus, near-death experiences, samadhi or the light-filled void of Buddhist enlightenment.”

“Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation.”

“The ongoing argument over whether the Enlightenment is a good thing is hardly a new facet of American political life.”

“Enlightenment arrives like a thief in the middle of the dark night of the soul.”

“The enlightenment driven away,The habit-forming pain,Mismanagement and grief:We must suffer them all again.”

“Remember your connection with the cosmos. Remember your connection with the infinity and that remembrance will give you the freedom.”

“Think of a world where “Detachment”, “Gratitude” and “Empathy” were subjects included in every grade school’s curriculum. A new generation would emerge with an attitude of peace, contentment and an overall appreciation for everything and everyone”

“Mystical insight and enlightenment occur when the veil between the worlds is lifted, the worlds are bridged, the gap closes, and we cross over.”

“Being more self-aware means welcoming more light into a dull life. When we throw light upon our self-perceptions, we immediately realise that the light has always been there, yet we had created an illusion of darkness.”

“Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won't be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this one. It'll be because people have changed. They'll be like you, Puffin. More a mixture. So why not become a mongrel? It's healthy.”