Top Enlightenment Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Enlightenment quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Morihei Ueshiba
You are here for no other purpose than to realize your inner divinity and manifest your inner enlightenment.
- Morihei Ueshiba
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Image of David Brin
Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment.'
- David Brin
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Image of Tahir Shah
Enlightenment, and the death which comes before it, is the primary business of Varanasi.
- Tahir Shah
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Image of Flann O'Brien
Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places.
- Flann O'Brien
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Image of Nikola Tesla
Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.
- Nikola Tesla
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Image of Osamu Tezuka
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!
- Osamu Tezuka
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Image of Brent Scowcroft
Since the days of Peter the Great, Russians have been maybe Europeans who didn't share in the enlightenment and the reformation, or are they Mongol Asians with the European veneer. And they've gone back and forth.
- Brent Scowcroft
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Image of Pearl Cleage
Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment.
- Pearl Cleage
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Image of Gary Yourofsky
Protecting the weak is the first step to enlightenment and being truly civilized.
- Gary Yourofsky
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Image of Amit Goswami
It can be made only when one recognizes the ground of being itself, when one recognizes directly that One is All.
- Amit Goswami
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Image of Lorene Cary
I'd been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta.
- Lorene Cary
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Image of Stefan Collini
The recurrence during the eighteenth century Enlightenment of the aspiration to be the 'Newton of the moral sciences' testifies to the prestige not just of celestial mechanics, but of the 'experimental method' more generally.
- Stefan Collini
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Image of Lon Milo DuQuette
God and I will achieve Supreme Enlightenment at the same moment.
- Lon Milo DuQuette
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Image of Lew Welch
Looking for enlightenment is like looking for a flashlight when all you need the flashlight for is to find the flashlight.
- Lew Welch
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Image of Natalie Goldberg
poems are small moments of enlightenment
- Natalie Goldberg
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Image of Conrad Anker
Enlightenment isn't found with a full stomach, or on a soft pillow.
- Conrad Anker
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Image of Kim Hee-jin
Paradoxically, the more deeply one grows in enlightenment, the more clearly one discerns one's own frailties and limitations.
- Kim Hee-jin
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Image of Kim Hee-jin
Those who greatly enlighten delusion are buddhas; those who are greatly deluded about enlightenment are sentient beings.
- Kim Hee-jin
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Image of Kim Hee-jin
Enlightenment after all is to overcome delusion, by way of sensitizing practitioners to complexities and problems of the human situation.
- Kim Hee-jin
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Image of Richard Davenport-Hines
Madness is not enlightenment, but the search for enlightenment is often mistaken for madness.
- Richard Davenport-Hines
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Image of Steven Harrison
We can continue our quest for improvement or not. We can search for happiness, enlightenment, security or identity or not. The search is not wrong; it is unrelated to the actual world.
- Steven Harrison
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Image of Allen W. Wood
Since the Enlightenment, popular religion has rejected the Enlightenment path and transformed itself into a bastion of resistance against reason.
- Allen W. Wood
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Image of R. D. Laing
Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment.
- R. D. Laing
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Image of Nancy Pearcey
Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute.
- Nancy Pearcey
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Image of Shunryu Suzuki
You can't make a date with enlightenment.
- Shunryu Suzuki
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It is not after we understand the truth that we attain enlightenment. To realize the truth is to live - to exist here and now.
- Shunryu Suzuki
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Image of Marisha Pessl
Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment.
- Marisha Pessl
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Image of Eckhart Tolle
Being an outsider to some extent, someone who does not "fit in" with others or is rejected by them for whatever reason, makes life difficult, but it also places you at an advantage as far as enlightenment is concerned. It takes you out of unconsciousness almost by force.
- Eckhart Tolle
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Image of Christopher Paolini
A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be.
- Christopher Paolini
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Image of Rajneesh
Create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path
- Rajneesh
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Enlightenment is when all hope disappears. Enlightenment is disappearance of hope.
- Rajneesh
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Image of Alan Watts
Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.
- Alan Watts
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Image of Shunryu Suzuki
Enlightenment is not a complete remedy.
- Shunryu Suzuki
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Image of Rajneesh
Enlightenment is finding that there is nothing to find. Enlightenment is to come to know that there is nowhere to go.
- Rajneesh
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Image of Marianne Williamson
We are dominated on this planet by a fear-based rather than a love-based thought system. Enlightenment involves relinquishing the thought system based on fear and instead accepting a thought system based on love.
- Marianne Williamson
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Image of Chogyam Trungpa
If we really prefer basic sanity or enlightenment, it's irritatingly possible to get into it.
- Chogyam Trungpa
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Image of Scott Lynch
Enlightenment! When it comes, it comes like a brick to the head, doesn't it?
- Scott Lynch
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Image of Moliere
They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
- Moliere
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Image of Rajneesh
Only the rich can achieve enlightenment because the poor are too busy looking for fridge freezers.
- Rajneesh
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Image of Mark Victor Hansen
Enlightenment is awakened awareness.
- Mark Victor Hansen
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Image of Charles Eisenstein
Enlightenment is a group activity.
- Charles Eisenstein
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Image of Rajneesh
Enlightenment is nothing but your consciousness being concentrated on a single point - now and here.
- Rajneesh
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Image of Aiden Wilson Tozer
We need to learn that truth consists not in correct doctrine, but in correct doctrine plus the inward enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.
- Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Image of Marianne Williamson
The last thing we should do is allow ourselves to be infantilized by a counterfeit version of enlightenment.
- Marianne Williamson
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Image of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The process of education takes place in the field of consciousness; the prerequisite to complete education is therefore the full development of consciousness - enlightenment. Knowledge is not the basis of enlightenment, enlightenment is the basis of knowledge.
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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Image of Chogyam Trungpa
The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.
- Chogyam Trungpa
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Image of Ruth Benedict
Culture, with its processes and functions, is a subject upon which we need all the enlightenment we can achieve, and there is no direction in which we can seek with greater reward than in the facts of pre-literate societies.
- Ruth Benedict
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Image of Sarada Devi
In the course of time one does not feel even the existence of God. After attaining enlightenment one sees that gods and deities are all Maya.
- Sarada Devi
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