Spiritual Enlightenment Philosophies

Table of Contents

• True Nature of Enlightenment
• Path to Enlightenment
• Enlightenment as a State of Being
• Challenges and Misconceptions
• Oneness and Unity
• Self-realization and Awareness
• Transcendence and Transformation
• Effortlessness and Letting Go
• Common Sense and Practical Wisdom
• Humor and Paradox
• Other

True Nature of Enlightenment

Enlightenment is the complete flowering of body, mind and the soul.

Enlightenment is the realization that all is as it should be. Everything is perfect as it is. Enlightenment is not an effort to achieve. Enlightenment is a state of non-doing, of effortlessness. Enlightenment is the feeling that you are at home in existence. You are part of the whole. You don't exist separately, all separation has disappeared. Enlightenment is the understanding that all is good and that all is an tremendous harmony.

Enlightenment is blessing the world with one hand and touching the earth with the other hand.

Enlightenment means "In Light In Mind" - it's the manifestation of the light that's already within you.

Enlightenment is to replace your own self with the self of the universe!

Enlightenment is the ability to comprehend ourselves, it is the power to peer into our hearts and minds and reach that state of spiritual bliss, which may or may not lead us to salvation.

Enlightenment is at the source of everything. From it, flows our Intuition and our creative energy. It is the delta of the human spirit ~ what we innately seek to return to, as we find ourselves lost in this world.

Enlightenment means transcending your world of thoughts.

Enlightenment is the moment when you are most alive and most compassionate.

Enlightenment is the ultimate nourishment for body, mind, and soul. It is the ultimate freedom and ecstasy of life.

Enlightenment is when we allow ourselves to melt like a sugar cube into the hot tea of God.

Enlightenment speaks from the same lips ego speaks from,

Path to Enlightenment

Enlightenment begins when you change your mindset - from a blaming mindset to blessing mindset, from a negative mindset to positive mindset, from fixed mindset to growth mind set, from linear mindset to exponential mindset.

Enlightenment cannot be attained by mere reading a scripture, not by any discourse , nor by any meditation technique, it can only be attained by one who has surrendered himself to the Supreme Soul and has a strong desire to take refuge. For him, this soul reveals its true nature to itself in the Divine Consciousness.

Looking forward” to what you think enlightenment might be at some grand point in the future keeps you from seeing the truth of its presence right now.

Enlightenment is a journey inward that leads to a spiritually divine way of approaching and experiencing the outer world. It is a way of travel more than a landing place.

Enlightenment starts with a question.

The path to Enlightenment is simple: Forgiveness, Acceptance, and Love.

Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness.

The only way to reach enlightenment is by walking towards the brightest light you can find and keep walking until you reach it.

Enlightenment is possible - for everyone.

In the end, there is no substitute for clear thinking, logic, and common sense.... A better path to enlightenment involves reading and thinking for yourself.

Question what you think is enlightenment.

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

Enlightenment as a State of Being

...after much practice and struggle, you come to feel for yourself that enlightenment is not only possible, but in process.

To attain to enlightenment is to attain to all. When you are not, you become the whole.

Enlightenment is not about attaining an ultimate level of intelligence or intellect. It is regained by shedding all the ideas, illusion and binds thrust on you and that you then so readily accrue.

Enlightenment is not about attaining a ultimate level of intelligence or intellect. It is regained by shedding all the ideas, illusion and binds thrust on you and that you then so readily accrue.

Enlightenment is not a goal to be attained, it is a state-of-being to be regained.

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

Enlightenment cast out the error.

Sometimes enlightenment descends upon you when you least expect it...

Enlightenment isn’t when you go there; it’s when there comes here.

Enlightenment is simply the moment you realize how amazing it is to be alive.

Enlightenment is something that you've been resisting to happen. It’s not something you have to struggle to make happen. The key is not to get in the way! Just allow it occur.

Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.

Challenges and Misconceptions

Enlightenment doesn’t make us a better person if we seek it just for us. It doesn’t erase our desires or put an end to even our own suffering. In fact it is the suffering that ennobles us.

You are not just the vessel that gets poured with enlightenment from the source of enlightenment, but you are the source as well.

What is enlightenment? It is to give up the search and realize that life is an end in itself.

The Zen master told me "Enlightenment requires a still awareness." So I learned how to brew moonshine.

To live in the Great Way is neither easy nor difficult, but those with limited views are fearful and irresolute: the faster they hurry, the slower they go, and clinging cannot be limited: even to be attached to the idea of enlightenment is to go astray. Just let things be in their own way and there will be neither coming nor going. Obey the nature of things (your own nature), and you will walk freely and undisturbed.

By nature, it's impossible to describe enlightenment! How do you plan on sharing your enlightenment? Hahaha, that's impossible. Wake up! That'll be the end of the world if you ever succeed!

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

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 pretense. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.

no matter how long you live, no matter how mature or philosophical you may grow to be, almost all sudden enlightenment will feel precisely this way, like a boot in the stomach, like acid on your tongue, and the sooner you accept this the better off you’ll be.

There is no point of being enlightened unless you have started enlightening others!

If somebody asks me what enlightenment is, I say that it is simply recovering conscience.

All paths to enlightenment are traps.

Oneness and Unity

Enlightenment is like waking up from a dream. Good news is if it's a bad dream, it's over. Bad news is that it's over, even if it's a good one. Overall it should be good news considering the state of affairs that one encounters in a condition of darkness.

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.*

Enlightenment is when you love the creation of god equally without judgement, condition, and discrimination. Everything that has a soul is worthy of value, care and respect. Remember we are all here for a period.

Enlightenment is the AWARENESS that ALL is ONE and ONE is ALL. Ignorance is the illusion of separateness.

Enlightenment is making friendship with the whole existence.

What is Enlightenment? Enlightenment is to be vigilant when everyone is sleeping; it is to see when everyone is blind; to hear when everyone is deaf!

Enmity builds walls; love builds bridges. Enlightenment is the highway to world peace.

Enlightenment in our time and age, is simply insight gained through rigorous analysis and creative observation of evidence.

Enlightenment doesn't disconnect you from the world, rather it gives you a deep understanding of it.

Ignorance is bliss, but Enlightenment is nirvana

Question everything to become enlightened.

The enlightened are superior to the learned.

Self-realization and Awareness

Enlightenment means going beyond the dimensions birth and death cycles - where karma has no meaning.

Enlightenment speaks feom the same lips ego speaks from.

Real enlightenment is not at all free from all sorts of ignorance, but it is at all times aware of that ignorance as well as all the shortcomings of the self, whereas in the so-called enlightenment fueled by mysticism, the self gets consumed by the illusion of knowledge, which is worse than ignorance.

Wisdom or enlightenment is not white, black or brown – it’s not christian, muslim, jew, hindu or atheist – it’s not homosexual or heterosexual – it’s not reductionist, empirical or sentimental – it’s not belief or disbelief. True enlightenment or wisdom or understanding or insight, whatever we call it, is beyond all opposites – it‘s beyond materialism and spiritualism – it’s beyond atheism and theism – it’s beyond all intellectualism and cynicism.

People often ask me, what is enlightenment? I tell them, caring - that's all there is to enlightenment

Insight is the real enlightenment with limitless potential to do good in the world.

Enlightenment is radiating peace and harmony from every cell, every gene and every DNA of our body.

To be enlightened is to know oneself and not run away.

Enlightenment is not a higher way to be. It is just experience. All humanity is enlightened. We are all at different parts of the journey.

Enlightenment is not the process of learning 'new' information. It is the process of 'reminding' ourselves that the answers are already 'within our consciousness'. All knowledge, all energy, all information is within us, not outside of us. it always has been and always will be.

Enlightenment is the mind that is open to anything, but attached to nothing. That is freedom. No values, no resentment, no grudges. Not carrying the past along with you. Not carrying memories from the past that are hurtful and shameful and embarrassing. Just let all that go and you are living in enlightenment, and you are free for everything.

Enlightenment is a direct experience with reality.

Transcendence and Transformation

Enlightenment does not mean making the most of bad situations. It means knowing that every situation is neither good nor bad.

Enlightenment is like quantum tunneling - when everyone sees walls and barriers, enlightened one sees infinite possibilities.

Enlightenment is the transformation that brings out the highest human qualities. It is the process that removes the clouds of negativity and brings the colors of peace, compassion and kindness.

To become enlightened means, to know what you are, what you are not, and still be everything.

Enlightenment is gained through ignorance. Ignorance proceeds sorrow, pain and suffering.Refinement through pain come wisdom and knowledge which in turn becomes enlightenment and to know better is to do better.

The first step towards true enlightenment is to lighten up on yourself.

An enlightened person knows what idea is worthy of living and dying for.

Enlightenment is not a goal to be attained; it is a state of being to be regained.

Enlightenment is just great common sense with a really cool name

Enlightenment is the unprogrammed state.

One can be enlightened about proofs as well as theorems. Without enlightenment, one is merely reduced to memorizing proofs. With enlightenment about a proof, its flow becomes clear and it can become an item of astonishing beauty. In addition, the need to memorize disappears because the proof has become part of your soul.

Dahnhak is not a way to gain enlightenment, but a way to actualize enlightenment. Dahnhak is a way to train yourself so that you can actualize the choices you have already made based on your enlightenment.

Effortlessness and Letting Go

I' can't get enlightenment. 'I' is the baggage to enlighten from.

In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato's belief that truth and beauty and goodness are connected; that truth and beauty, disseminated widely, will sooner or later lead to goodness. (While we're making at effort at truth and goodness, beauty reminds us what we're hold out for.)

Enlightenment is not something to achieve,Enlightenment is something to feel!

There was an enlightenment in my mind, and too now, enlighten the world will I.

Enlightenment is the moment you gaze up at the sun and stop thinking about your problems.

There is no other way to reach enlightenment than by recognizing buddha nature and attaining stability in it. Buddhas of the past did that, and the present-day practitioners who will be the buddhas of the future will do so by recognizing their own nature and attaining stability in it. There is no other way. Nobody else can accomplish enlightenment for us or pull us into liberation. It is completely up to ourselves.

Enlightenment needs embodiment. Wide-open insight needs deep-rooted instinct. As above, so below.

Enlightenment does not mean getting rid of anything. It means changing one's frame of reference so that all things become enlightening.

It is the same principle as washing dirty clothes - the more you clean the dirt away, the more it goes back to its original state. A piece of paper, which has been scribbled on, gets cleaner the more the scribbling is erased. Enlightenment is the same as knowing the true state of the paper once it is clean.

The search for enlightenment is futile... It's a remembering.

The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity.

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

Common Sense and Practical Wisdom

Enlightenment isn’t about reaching a destination of “knowing”, it is about developing consistent vibrational harmony within one’s self and with the surrounding world.

Just as every vessel is not the same, therefore, enlightenment will also vary according to your patience, heart, mind, and body whenever it comes to endure challenges in life.

Enlightenment is playing every ball of life with perfection, sincerity and love without perturb by the blame or praise of the world.

Enlightenment is light.

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.

You don’t need to find an “enlightened one” to tell you what to think - you are an enlightened one. We all are.

Humans think with all their efforts to make them enlightened. What we often forget and don't realize is that enlightenment is not the fruit of human effort. That might only come as a blessing. As a gift.

Enlightenment is achieved only when, in addition to knowing what an author says, you know what he means and why he says it.

Enlightenment is the unfolding of the divinity within.

Enlightenment is not an attainment, it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes.

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know! (Sapere aude.) "Have the courage to use your own understanding," is therefore the motto of the enlightenment.

Humor and Paradox

There are only two profound ways to reach enlightenment: Laugh by yourself, or get tickled.

Enlightenment isn’t when you go there; it’s when there comes here.

Few ever found enlightenment in haste, and nobody will ever discover it in gibberish

The essence of enlightenment … is a big understanding, which gives you a deep and wide perspective to see the world as a whole, and a capacity to accept with compassion all that is. 11/26

Negation is the key to enlightenment.

Enlightenment doesn't come from our actions... It awakens from doing nothing.

Seeking enlightenment is a waste of time... just stop thinking and remember.

You do not say, “This is enlightenment,” or “That is not right practice.” Even in wrong practice, when you realize it and continue, there is right practice.

Enlightenment is not a rocket science, it is the pure awareness of something deep within you that is ageless, formless and undefinable.

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

Practice and enlightenment are not two.

Other

Enlightenment comes when you understand the language of heart - the language of tree, birds and the nature.

Does one really have to fretAbout enlightenment?No matter what road I travel,I’m going home.

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