2,968 Quotes About Enlightenment

Depending on what choices and designs you make right at this moment for today, your day will definitely change.

What is inside, is also outside,

Someone whose heart is at peace is blessed. Peace of mind comes when we let go of our attachments. Attachments come from foolishness, and foolishness develops when we don't know the purpose of our lives. We become attached to money, prestige, and people When we doubt know why we live, why we've come to the Earth and what we should live for.

Oneness has to be realized, not created. Those who try to create oneness in the world end up creating one more group, one more sect, one more division.

When the mind is completely still, then all movement ceases. Beneath the substrate of consciousness is that which the sages of Vedanta call the Absolute. While the Absolute cannot be described, it is only known by negation. Remove everything from the equation, and there it is, right here all along.

Enlightenment is transcending the limits of the Selfish gene. It is mastering the pain, pleasure and reward circuits of the brain by radiating peace, love and harmony from every cell of the body.*

The sage is sick of being sick (Tao Te Ching)

Because science has given modern society the things of comfort, solutions to important issues (sanitation, electricity, transportation, food production, entertainment, etc.), we have become conditioned to depend upon it for answers to everything. And because of this conditioning, we have come to rely upon science to also provide answers for that which is beyond its capacity to provide.

Knowing the Truth is not based on knowledge, but on being "it".