E Quotes
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“Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity...No thing is required for this enlightenment.. .except freedom; and the freedom in question is the least harmful of all, namely, the freedom to use reason publicly in all matters.”
“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!”
“Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.”
Source: Kant: Political Writings
“Enlightenment is man's leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Such immaturity is self-caused if it is not caused by lack of intelligence, but by lack of determination and courage to use one's intelligence without being guided by another. Sapere Aude! Have the courage to use your own intelligence! is therefore the motto of the enlightenment.”
“Enlightenment is not a complete remedy.”
“Enlightenment is not a finite state. It's not something that you just do and it's done. It goes on forever.”
“Enlightenment is not a goal to be attained, it is a state-of-being to be regained.”
Source: The Psychic Workshop: A Complete Program for Fulfilling Your Spiritual Potential
“Enlightenment is not a state of mind, yet all states of mind are contained within it.”
“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 becoming divine. Instead it's about becoming more fully human. . . . It is the end of ignorance.”
Source: Awakening the Buddha Within: Eight Steps to Enlightenment : Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World
“Enlightenment is not about being political. It is not a social club. Ashrams often turn into that, I know. Societies of enlightenment often just become cliques.”
“Enlightenment is not about cocooning one’s self, but about integrating more fully with both your self and life.”
“Enlightenment is not an achievement; it is just the seeing of reality as it is. In fact, nirvana is simply what is. We have been staring at it all our lives, and yet so few of us get it. The fact is that life is at the same time lamentable and beautiful. When we realize this humorous and absurd beauty of life, what can we do but to burst into laughter?”
Source: The Zen Teachings of Jesus
“Enlightenment is not an attainment; it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes. If a blind man realizes that he can see, has the world changed?”
Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
“Enlightenment is not an experience at all, because the experiencer is lost. The "I", the ego is lost.
Enlightenment is more like an experiencing. It is a process. It begins, but it never ends. You enter it, but you can never possess it. It is a deep merging and melting with Existence. It is a oneness. It is like a drop dropping into the Ocean.”
“Enlightenment is not an immediate promotion, it is
required to follow the spiritual path under devotion to keep the sincerity and effort hand in hand.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“Enlightenment is not for the one who wants to experience continuous states of bliss and
comfortability in order to feel liberated…..
Enlightenment is for the one who is willing to have their view of life and sense of self be turned upside down and is not afraid to be consumed by the truth.”
Source: YOU ARE THE CREATOR: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Awakening, Self Mastery and Healing
“Enlightenment is not like a Big Bang - it is an ongoing process.”
“Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to become.”
Source: Inner Revolution
“Enlightenment is not so much a hard-won achievement, much less a "creation," but instead is deep relaxation and recovery of our natural condition. You come to see the evolution of the soul, the soul's journey, as a realization of what has always been there in the first place.”
“Enlightenment is not so much about realizing oneness but about not forgetting it.”
Source: The Three Beliefs of Ego: A Sufferer’s Guide to Freedom
“Enlightenment is not something to achieve,
Enlightenment is something to feel!”
“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.”
“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 not viewing the universal principles as objects; rather, it is becoming aware of them in one's living self. Thus kenshō (literally, seeing into your nature) is not seeing your True Nature as an object; rather, the True Nature becomes the thing seeing.”
Source: Zen and the Bible
“Enlightenment is nothing but to experience your own mind. The experience of the self too is experiencing the intrinsic nature of the mind.”
“Enlightenment is nothing but your consciousness being concentrated on a single point - now and here.”
“Enlightenment is part of everything and so our minds have to be very big to encompass all things, to understand all things - To see the tao in a grape, the act of sexuality, meditation, work, play, taking a shower, brushing your teeth, being sick and hurting.”
“Enlightenment is playing every ball of life with perfection, sincerity and love without perturb by the blame or praise of the world.”
Source: Enlightenment Step by Step
“Enlightenment is possible – for everyone. However, I don‘t think we will all awaken spontaneously in the way contemporary spiritual teachers Krishnamurti or Eckhart Tolle did. Most of us will never experience a voice from on high, a flash of life-altering insight, stigmata, or a transcendent miracle. Anything is possible, but the odds are not in our favor. What these teachers experienced is like winning the lottery. Yet, from the Buddhist perspective, most of us have already won the lottery: against all probability, we have been born as human beings with intact senses and a bit of interest in pursuing something spiritual. This is even more remarkable when we consider the obstacles and temptations of our materialistic culture, in which spirit is thrown out with the bathwater of religious dogma, God is proclaimed dead, consciousness is reduced to epiphenomena of the brain, and life‘s purpose is made a hedonic scramble on a treadmill to nowhere. What is far more likely than sudden enlightenment is gradual awakening. Following a systematic educational process like a college curriculum, gradual awakening builds on incremental insights into who we truly are, learning to care for ourselves and others, and discovering creative ways to engage the problems we all face. This gradual process of awakening doesn‘t offer an escape hatch to another realm of reality or disavow our human wounds, limits, and foibles in this realm; rather it embraces and transforms them, because the only way out is through.”
Source: Gradual Awakening: The Tibetan Buddhist Path of Becoming Fully Human
“Enlightenment is probably antithetical to impatience.”
“Enlightenment is radiating peace and harmony from every cell, every gene and every DNA of our body.”
Source: Enlightenment Step by Step
“Enlightenment is really worth seeking. It is the only thing that gives you permanent happiness. When you experience the ecstasy of enlightenment, everything is alright.”
“Enlightenment is represented by Sri Krishna, who is said to be an avatar.”
“Enlightenment is scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark.”
Source: How They Met and Other Stories
“Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists.”
“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.”
Source: Enlightenment Step by Step
“Enlightenment is the "quiet acceptance of what is". I believe the truly enlightened beings are those who refuse to allow themselves to be distressed over things that simply are the way they are.”
“Enlightenment is the ability to freely transact within the ten thousand states of mind without a continuous self or awareness”
“Enlightenment is the complete awareness of life without mental modifications.”
“Enlightenment is the complete flowering of body, mind and the soul.”
Source: Enlightenment Step by Step
“Enlightenment is the culmination of self-knowledge, pure unadulterated knowledge. Not knowledge you can get from reading a book, it comes from perfecting your awareness, your mind.”
“Enlightenment is the experience of pure light.”
Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“Enlightenment is the food that eats you.”
“Enlightenment is the Goal - Love is the Game - Taking steps are the rules!”
“Enlightenment is the Goal - Love is the Game - Taking steps are the rules! - Allan Rufus”
“Enlightenment is the inner light of wisdom that is permanently free from all mistaken appearance, and whose function is to bestow mental peace upon each and every living being every day.”
Source: Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness
“Enlightenment is the journey back from the head to the heart.”
“Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.”
“Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of the Enlightenment.”