“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.” ProcessConsciousnessFieldsDevelopmentEnlightenmentBasesPrerequisites Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
“Awareness is wakefulness. Wakefulness is consciousness. Consciousness is limitless awareness.” ConsciousnessAwarenessEnlightenmentLimitless Author:Frederick Lenz
“Miracles have a purpose. Miracles help people believe in enlightenment. The real miracle is the transformation of consciousness from limitation and pain to enlightenment and ecstasy.” PeopleBelieveRealHelpingPainPurposeConsciousnessTeacherEnlightenmentMiracleTransformationLimitationEnlightenedEcstasy Author:Frederick Lenz
“If it's real enlightenment...you're dealing with someone who's broken through every rule, every barrier, every do and do not, and they've reached an apex of consciousness. They've broken through all the conditioning, all the timidity. They don't buy into any program.” IfsRealConsciousnessTeacherBrokenEnlightenmentProgramEnlightenedBarriersConditioningTimidityApex Author:Frederick Lenz
“Only until you rise above the use of the second attention for manipulation that you can enter into a consciousness in which there is enlightenment.” UseWomenAttentionConsciousnessEnlightenmentManipulationRise Above Author:Frederick Lenz
“There is this unbounded, infinite, eternal, level, ocean, within every human being. Inner happiness comes with consciousness, bliss, intelligence comes with it. Creativity, love. Human beings have a potential and it has names like enlightenment or fulfilment, or liberation. True happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within. They say beauty is only skin deep but it's this stuff coming from the inside, absolute vibrant consciousness, absolute bliss” HumansLyingNamesStuffHuman BeingsLevelsConsciousnessCreativityOceanEternalEnlightenmentSkinsAbsolutesInfiniteLiberationBlissTrue HappinessFulfilmentInner HappinessSkin DeepBeauty Is Only Skin Deep Author:David Lynch
“Christianity has held back any further advances in human consciousness for the past thousand years. And for the past century it's been in direct conflict with its illegitimate offspring, Communism (again with a capital C). Both ask the individual to sacrifice his self-interest to the higher goals of the organization. (Which is okay by me as long as it's voluntary; but as soon as either becomes too big - and takes on that damned capital C - they stop asking for cooperation and start demanding it.) Any higher states of human enlightenment have been sacrificed between these two monoliths.” YearsHumansLongHas BeensTwoSelfStatesBigsPastAsksIndividualGoalInterestConsciousnessChristianitySacrificeCenturyHigherThousandConflictEnlightenmentDirectOkayOrganizationAskingCommunismCooperationThousand YearsSelf InterestOffspringHuman ConsciousnessHigher Goals Author:David Gerrold
“Every human being has consciousness, but not every human being has the same amount. The potential for each one of us human beings is infinite consciousness. This is called supreme enlightenment, and it just needs unfolding by transcending each day. The more consciousness we have, the better life is.” NeedsHumansLife IsHuman BeingsConsciousnessAmountEnlightenmentInfiniteSupremeEach DayBetter LifeUnfoldingTranscendingInfinite Consciousness Author:David Lynch
“Unfortunately, the greater consciousness among Whites about Black equality has not carried over to the new victims of racism - Muslims and Immigrants. There is no racial enlightenment for these groups, which are huge. Millions of Muslims and an equal number of immigrants, who whether legal or illegal, face discrimination both legally from the government and extra-legally from White Americans - and sometimes Black and Hispanic Americans. The Democratic Presidential candidates are avoiding these issues in order to cultivate support among White Americans.” SometimesGovernmentFacesOrderBlackWhiteNumbersConsciousnessMillionsSupportIssuesGreaterGroupsHugeEqualRacismEnlightenmentVictimDemocraticDiscriminationPresidentialExtrasCandidatesImmigrantsIllegalAvoidingHispanicPresidential Candidate Author:Howard Zinn
“If young gentlemen get from their years in college only manliness, esprit de corps, a release of their social gifts, a training ingive and take, a catholic taste in men and the standards of true sportsmen, they have gained much but they have not gained what a college should give them. It should give them insight into the things of the mind and the spiritthe consciousness of having taken on them the vows of true enlightenment and of having undergone the discipline, never to be shaken off, of those who seek wisdom in candor, with faithful labor and travail of spirit.” IfsMenGivingShouldYearsMindYoungSpiritSocialConsciousnessTakenCollegeDisciplineTasteTrainingStandardsEnlightenmentLaborCatholicInsightReleaseFaithfulGentlemanVowCandorGive And TakeManlinessSportsmanEsprit De CorpsYoung Gentlemen Author:Woodrow Wilson
“When you continuously know and sense yourself as the space of consciousness rather than what appears in consciousness - sense perceptions, thoughts, emotions - then it can be said that you are enlightened... except that you wouldn't think or speak of yourself as 'enlightened', because that would instantly create another mind-based conceptual identity and so it would be the end of 'your' enlightenment.” ThinkingKnowsMindSaidEndsWould BeSpeakSpaceEmotionConsciousnessIdentityPerceptionEnlightenmentEnlightenedSense Perception Author:Eckhart Tolle
“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.” UniverseRealizingPerfectConsciousnessAliveLimitsEnlightenmentExpanding Author:Thaddeus Golas
“Enlightenment is nothing but your consciousness being concentrated on a single point - now and here.” ConsciousnessEnlightenment Author:Rajneesh
“Once again, we are reminded that awakening, or enlightenment is not the property of Buddhism, any more than Truth is the property of Christianity. Neither the Buddha nor the Christ belongs exclusively to the communities that were founded in their names. They belong to all people of goodwill, all who are attentive to the secret which lives in the depths of their breath and their consciousness.” PeopleNamesChristCommunitySecretConsciousnessChristianityBuddhismTruth IsEnlightenmentBreathsPropertyDepthAwakeningGoodwill Author:Jean Leloup
“They say the full potential of the human being is called enlightenment, which is infinite consciousness, infinite happiness, zero negativity, zero dying, complete freedom, total fulfillment, and being at one with everything. You can say it's God realization, or you can say you sit at the feet of the Lord as master of all you survey. You could say it's totality, total knowledge, and that you are that totality. This is every human being's birthright: to one day enjoy supreme enlightenment, unity. It's like the big graduation.” HumansBigsEnjoyHuman BeingsConsciousnessLordFeetDyingMastersOne DayEnlightenmentInfiniteUnitySupremeRealizationFulfillmentZeroNegativitySurveysTotalityBirthrightFull PotentialComplete FreedomInfinite Consciousness Author:David Lynch
“I think it's so important to have a practice, because the consciousness isn't perfection or enlightenment or any of that bullshit. The consciousness is, "Oh, I'm walking down the street and I'm doing nothing."” ThinkingImportantConsciousnessPracticeStreetsWalkingEnlightenmentPerfectionBullshitDoing Nothing Author:Amanda Palmer
“To be politically activated is to dare to care about the happiness of others and that is just about the most important activity anyone can be involved in at this time, because it changes a person - it lifts them from normal self-centeredness to a state of other centeredness. That is a good thing because it expands our perception of self. This expansion of consciousness leads to enlightenment, which is the meaning of yoga.” PersonsImportantSelfStatesCareConsciousnessInvolvedActivityNormalPerceptionEnlightenmentYogaGood ThingsDareLiftsExpansionSelf CenterednessCenteredness Author:Sharon Gannon
“We can step out of our small sense of self and awaken to this reality. One of the reasons people get confused about freedom, enlightenment, and liberation is because this awakened consciousness has different facets or different dimensions, a bit like a crystal. If you hold this luminous crystal up to the light and turn it, it will take a beam of white light and refract it into the many colors of the spectrum.” PeopleIfsDifferentSelfReasonRealityLightTurnsBitsWhiteConsciousnessStepsColorEnlightenmentLiberationConfusedDimensionsCrystalsSpectrumAwakenedSense Of SelfBeamLuminousFacetsWhite LightDifferent Dimensions Author:Jack Kornfield
“I think there is going to be a large paradigm shift in a few years, and it could either be to a new age of enlightenment and unity and we'll be raised to a new level of consciousness, or it could be a return to a dark age of kings and mass, open oppression followed by a die-off of human culture.” ThinkingAgeCultureDarkConsciousnessEnlightenmentUnityOppressionNew AgeParadigmDark AgesParadigm Shift Author:Dan Deacon