2,968 Quotes About Enlightenment

Enlightenment is a destructive process.

Enlightenment is the natural state of consciousness, the innocent state of consciousness, that state which is uncontaminated by the movement of thought, uncontaminated by control or manipulation of mind.

Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.

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.

Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn't exist?

You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake.

We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.