E Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with E. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Enlightenment is a journey. It is a journey that is made alone. It is a journey that is made with a teacher.”
“Enlightenment is a lot like dying. You might wonder why there aren't more enlightened people. It is because they are afraid to die.”
“Enlightenment is a perfect state of mind. It is the direct seeing of reality. The world most people see, which they call life, is really just a dream.”
Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“Enlightenment is a sacred education.”
“Enlightenment is a state of consciousness, It reveals your true nature of the self being divine.”
“Enlightenment is a timeless void. It's an emptiness that's filled with the most excellent light.”
“Enlightenment is already there inside us and all things. All we have to do is get something out of the way that is causing us not to see that.”
“Enlightenment is always preceded by confusion.”
“Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment.”
“Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive - that you can touch the miracle of being alive - then that is a kind of enlightenment.”
“Enlightenment is always through surrender, but surrender is achieved through intelligence. Only idiots cannot surrender. To surrender you need great intelligence. To see the point of surrender is the climax of insight; to see the point that you are not separate from existence is the highest that intelligence can give to you.”
Source: From I to Q
“Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.”
“Enlightenment is an ocean of awareness that slides through the human part of us and dissolves it, and leaves us forever in eternity.”
“Enlightenment is any experience of expanding our consciousness beyond its present limits.”
Source: The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment
“Enlightenment is any experience of expanding our consciousness beyond its present limits. We could also say that perfect enlightenment is realizing that we have no limits at all, and that the entire universe is alive.”
“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.”
Source: The Psychic Workshop: A Complete Program for Fulfilling Your Spiritual Potential
“Enlightenment is awakened awareness.”
Source: The One Minute Millionaire: The Story that Transforms Your Life and Makes You Rich
“Enlightenment is being able to go to your own home and feel comfortable.”
Source: Success Is the Quality of Your Journey
“Enlightenment is beyond self-improvement and spiritual seeking. It is the final resolution of a case of mistaken identity. It is the direct recognition of your eternal nature and the seeing through of who you have falsely believed yourself to be.”
“Enlightenment is blessing the world with one hand and touching the earth with the other hand.”
Source: Enlightenment Step by Step
“Enlightenment is blossoming the thousand petaled lotus flower on the top of the head.”
Source: Enlightenment Step by Step
“Enlightenment is choicelessness. But don`t misunderstand me. Before that, you will have to move very cautiously, choosing the right against the wrong, choosing the truer so that you can reach to the ultimate truth.”
“Enlightenment is coming out from the fear mode, victim mode and guilt mode of living to the mode of empowerment.”
“Enlightenment is construed as seeing things as they really are rather than as they appear; it is a direct insight into, and discernment of, the nature of reality that is apprehended only by wisdom, which transcends and is prior to the activity of discriminative thought. In this view, delusion is defined as all that is opposed to enlightenment.”
Source: Dogen on Meditation and Thinking: A Reflection on His View of Zen
“Enlightenment is cumulative. You become a little more enlightened each day as you practice yoga and Buddhism.”
“Enlightenment is death before death, death of everything you are not. And a seeker's journey is like a soldier climbing a hilltop in the shower of bullets, not like a tourist trekking a hill.”
“Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.”
“Enlightenment is eliminating mental confusion, eliminating hatred, jealousy, mental toxins, cravings. That's very simple and straightforward. Whether you can do it or not is another matter.”
“Enlightenment is finding that there is nothing to find. Enlightenment is to come to know that there is nowhere to go.”
“Enlightenment is finding that there is nothing to find. Enlightenment is to come to know that there is nowhere to go. Enlightenment is the understanding that this is all, that this is perfect, that this is it. Enlightenment is not an achievement, it is an understanding that there is nothing to achieve, nowhere to go. You are already there - you have never been away. You cannot be away from there. God has never been missed. Maybe you have forgotten, that's all. Maybe you have fallen asleep, that's all.”
“Enlightenment is freedom, the thought of enlightenment is prison.
The truth exists in the moment. If we´re anywhere else, seeking something
outside of the moment, we´re in prison.”
Source: A Gradual Awakening
“Enlightenment is getting off the wheel. Enlightenment is to become pure awareness.”
“Enlightenment is higher states of awareness.”
“Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.”
“Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.”
“Enlightenment is just another word for feeling comfortable with being a completely ordinary person.”
“Enlightenment is just the beginning, later on come other skills . . . patience, a forgiving nature, extreme attention . . . .”
“Enlightenment is knowing Who You Are in relation to All - That - Is. There is nothing in the Taoverse more the Taoverse than you. You always were; you will always be.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“Enlightenment is lightening up.”
“Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.”
“Enlightenment is like quantum tunneling - when everyone sees walls and barriers, enlightened one sees infinite possibilities.”
Source: Enlightenment Step by Step
“Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water.
The moon does not get wet, nor is the water broken.
Although its light is wide and great,
the moon is reflected even in a puddle an inch wide.
The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in dewdrops
on the grass, or even in one drop of water.”
Source: Dokusan With Dogen: Timeless Lesson In Negotiating The Way
“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.”
Source: The Essence of Enlightenment: Comprehensive Guide to Self-inquiry and Enlightenment
“Enlightenment is like witnessing the brilliant sun for the first time in the morning. It is like seeing the beautiful flowers that grow in the woods , the frolicking deer, a bird flying proudly, or fish swimming. Life is not all that grim. In the morning when you brush your teeth, you can see how shiny they are. Reality has its own gallantry, spark, and arrogance. You can study life while you are alive. You can study how you can achieve the brilliance of life.”
“Enlightenment is living in the light of cosmic collaboration.”
Source: Enlightenment Step by Step
“Enlightenment is living in the light of cosmic collaboration. Collaboration gives us the freedom to come out of the boundaries of limited realities.”
Source: Enlightenment Step by Step
“Enlightenment is making every cell, gene and DNA as the radiator of peace and harmony.”
Source: Enlightenment Step by Step
“Enlightenment is making friendship with the whole existence.”
Source: Enlightenment Step by Step
“Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Nothing is required for this enlightenment except freedom; and the freedom in question is the least harmful of all, namely, the freedom to use with and publicly in all matters.”
Source: Critique of pure reason
“Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere aude! 'Have courage to use your own reason!'- that is the motto of enlightenment.”
Source: An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?