Quotes about enlightenment-quotes

To be ignorant is to be in the darkto be wise is to be in the light.An illiterate person is disabled intellectuallyan unenlightened person is handicapped spiritually.

Ignorance shuts the mind’s door tight wisdom swings it wide open.

You cannot find what God has hiddenyou cannot hide what God has revealed.The world deserves the light that’s within youyou deserve the light that you give to others.

Books are a stairway to knowledge experience is a highway to understanding together they are an elevator to enlightenment.

The ambitious strive to be well known the enlightened strive to be worth knowing.

The soul was the first temple love was the first religion.

You are the greatest temple in the universe God dwells within you.

Nature hides its secrets in wisdom the universe hides its secrets in love.

No one benefits from an empty jar fill yourself first before pouring out to others.

Be noble like the sun let even those who resent you for shinning benefit from your warmth.

Intelligence tells you where to look wisdom tells you what to see.

Don’t let people draw you into their darkness pull them into your light.

Be selfless like a burning candle giving of yourself to others even if it consumes you.

The sun consumes even itself to give light to a dark world do likewise.

A flower always turns its face to light be likewise.

A fiery spirit bursts from your soul.

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

Lighten up. Brighten up. Smile.

Through our chanting we merge our personal consciousness momentarily with the infinite consciousness that is our origin and our destiny. It is the drop of water finding its way back into the ocean from which it came.

We are all equally capable of spiritual awakening. It may not seem that way, at times. Some of us are so caught up in the drama of our day-to-day existence that we have lost track of who we really are. But eventually, all of us will make the discovery of our true nature.

And you can't know it, because to know it is to be it, and to be it is to not be you.

A person achieves enlightenment only through a purposeful engagement with life and by resolutely searching for truth and shedding artifices.

Be like the sun; bear with those in the dark, but keep shining your light.

If all you have is money, you are among the poorest people in the world.

The changless part in you recognizes change

There is no gem like virtue, no wealth like happiness, no treasure like faith, and no jewel like love.

The most valuable real estate in the universe is inside your soul.

The universe offers you three things that money cannot buy: joy, love, and life.

Embrace all. Help some. Trust few. Harm none.

To live a little, love a little. To live a lot, love a lot.

As the sun lives on when it sets in the warmth it has given to others, you too will live on in the hearts of those whose lives you have touched.

Your knowledge can stir the world, your intellect can move it, your wisdom can shake it, but only your love can truly change it.

Knowledge offers you strength. Wisdom promises you influence. Understanding assures you wealth. Love guarantees you power.

To achieve peace let go of: guilt, anger, and bitterness. To achieve happiness embrace: virtue, faith, and love.

Wisdom paints a rainbow in your mind, joy paints a rainbow in your heart, and love paints a rainbow in your soul.

Love hopes. Love helps. Love heals. Love hears.

Pleasure awakens the body, wisdom awakens the mind, joy awakens the heart, and love awakens the soul.

Love has never been conquered, not even by the greatest army.

The loudest preacher in the world is your conscience, the cleverest is wisdom, the rowdiest is passion, the surest is truth, the purest is love, and the highest is God.

Love treats its enemies better than hate treats its friends.

One who is wise is rich, one who is virtuous is wealthy, one who is happy is affluent, and one who is loving is prosperous.

Wisdom knows the way. Understanding sees the way. Passion feels the way. Love goes all the way.

Truth is straight like a line. Virtue is firm like a wall. Wisdom is tall like a mountain. Love is wide like an ocean.

Help when you can. Give what you have. Do what you must. Be who you ought to be.

Knowledge, teach. Wisdom, acquire. Understanding, share. Love, spread.

Pray for faith, hope for peace, strive for unity, and persevere for harmony.

Love is black. Love is white. Love is brown. Love is humanity.

Self-questioning is the road to personal liberation and spiritual enlightenment. Self-questioning spurs the mind to consider new opportunities to arrive at truth.

My experience of that liberation, what Buddha had called Nirvana, set me off in the path of scientific investigation of that Oneness, the thing people call, meeting with God. And that meeting triggered an unquenchable thirst in me to develop a proper scientific method to understand and further explore that apparently bizarre domain of Universal Consciousness.

Forgiveness is the subjective and fertile ground the acorn falls upon when gifted to ourselves and others.

Life is fleeting we must master it in the present.

Everybody dies. Including your messiahs. And gods.

It is better to win souls than to conquer nations.

To encourage people, walk beside them. To inspire people, walk in front of them. To drive people, walk behind them. To lead people, walk with them.

Wisdom is a great prophet, faith is a great warrior, knowledge is a great sage, and virtue is a great priest.

The self is a subjective entity created by our thoughts and deeds. All sense of happiness and emotional wellbeing turns upon how a person organizes their stream of consciousness into a creation and development of a positive or negative self-image.

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

Undergoing personal change is a difficult but necessary process of maturing into the ultimate manifestation of a desirable self. True personal transformation requires a person honestly to assess their inner spirituality and adopt a clear vision of who they want to be. An earnest person experiencing inner transformation of their values and belief system is apt to feel conflicted, confused, and disorientated. Change of self is displacement, disarticulation, and loss of self. Alteration of our self

Do we find ourself or does our self get demolished?

It's tough to get out of one's inherited imbecilic culture, and a thus inherited or endowed lunatic belief system. A freethinker must overcome every deadened system. Especially one's own.

Knowledge is strength, understanding is mastery, and wisdom is power.

We all come into the world rocks, but the enlightened leave it diamonds.

Sages see further with their eyes closed than scholars with their eyes open.

The mind speaks, though it does not have lips.The heart moves, though it does not have feet.The soul rises, though it does not have wings.

The mind is a temple of knowledge, the heart is a temple of understanding, and the soul is a temple of wisdom; together they are a temple of enlightenment.

It is impossible for light to bow before darkness.

An ugly candle that lights up a home is better than a beautiful lamp that merely decorates a room.

Light travels halfway around the world while darkness is still putting its shoes on.

Light travels half away around the world while darkness is still putting its shoes on.

There are many paths leading to One. These herbs carry within their fragile essence a secret of Life, Universe, Creation, and the secrets of Enlightenment. We all carry the Truth within, and every drop of water, every flower, every man intuitively knows it, no matter what the path we choose to follow is.

Noble leaders choose: wisdom over wealth, knowledge over fame, understanding over honor, virtue over titles, and people over power.

Water has no mouth, but swallows many. Light has no hands, but touches many. Wind has no feet, but carries many. Darkness has no teeth, but devours many.

A fish is a genius in water, an eagle is a genius in air, a fox is a genius on land, and a sage is a genius in life. 

It is difficult to fill a broken vessel, and impossible to fill a leaking one.

A sage is a library whose bookshelves are in his soul.

A scholar’s pen is more valuable than a warrior’s sword.

An enlightened person strives to live a meaningful life, defined by their personal humility joy, passion, and profound reverence for life.

Each of us is impermanent wave of energy folded into the infinite cosmic order. Acknowledgement of the fundamental impermanence of ourselves unchains us from the strictures of living a terrestrial life stuck like a needle vacillating between the magnetic pull of endless desire and the terror of death. Once we achieve freedom from any craving and all desires and we are relieved of all titanic fears, we release ourselves from living in perpetual distress. Once we rid ourselves from any impulse to

It is not the size of the candle that matters, but the size of its light.

Be like stars; when darkness tries to stop you from shining, shine all the more.

Light cannot hide its beauty, not even in darkness.

Wisdom at the mountain-foot sees farther than intelligence at the mountaintop.

Intelligence is the icing, but wisdom is the cake.

A few hours spent reading a book is better than a lifetime of ignorance.

Fall from ignorance, and you will rise to reason.

Roses do not bloom the same time as daisies.

A drop of sense can save you an ocean of tears.

Bitter wisdom is better than sweet folly.

You cannot wake up one who refuses to open his eyes.

The soul's rainbow has more colors than the sky's stars.

A vessel's beauty does not determine how much water it carries.

Light poured out multiplies light poured in.

What you seek for others you find for yourself.

God created sages because He wanted to leave the light on in the universe.

You have not lost if you have learned one new lesson.You have not lost if you have helped one new person.You have not lost if you have overcome one new obstacle.

The intelligent are candles,the virtuous are torches,the wise are lamps,and the enlightened are stars.

If you point to paradise, all the shortsighted will see is your finger.

The lowest wisdom of the wise is greater than the highest wisdom of fools.

Education costs an arm and a leg, but ignorance costs you your mind and your soul.