Home / Topics / Enlightenment Quotes

Enlightenment Quotes

Browse 3092 quotes about Enlightenment.

Enlightenment Quotes

“What led me to my science and what fascinated me from a young age was the, by no means self-evident, fact that our laws of thought agree with the regularities found in the succession of impressions we receive from the external world, that it is thus possible for the human being to gain enlightenment regarding these regularities by means of pure thought”

World Humans Mean Self Facts Age Law Young Science Found Human Beings Pure Enlightenment Gains Agree Impression Fascinated Evident Young Age Succession Scientific Method Regularity

Author:Max Planck

“There is obstruction. Enlightenment is not very popular in this world. History tells us that enlightened teachers who made themselves largely available to human beings had problems.”

World Humans Made Problem Human Beings Teacher This World Enlightenment Available Enlightened World History Obstruction Very Popular

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”

“As I study both the exoteric and the esoteric schools of Buddhism, they maintain that human beings are endowed with Dharma-nature by birth. If this is the case, why did the Buddhas of all ages - undoubtedly in possession of enlightenment - find it necessary to seek enlightenment and engage in spiritual practice?”

Ifs Humans Age School Spiritual Human Beings Practice Cases Study Buddhism Birth Enlightenment Possession Dharma Spiritual Practice Esoteric

Author:Dogen

“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.”

Needs Humans Life Is Human Beings Consciousness Amount Enlightenment Infinite Supreme Each Day Better Life Unfolding Transcending Infinite Consciousness

Author:David Lynch

“The attainment of enlightenment makes you happy forever. It frees you from the mental and emotional pains that human beings experience every day. You live in a condition of ecstasy, brightness and joy all of the time.”

Humans Pain Joy Suffering Human Beings Forever Conditions Emotional Buddhism Enlightenment Ecstasy Attainment Make You Happy Emotional Pain Brightness

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

“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.”

“Yes, our enlightenment process is coming, but now it's about accepting our own imperfection as a human being, and through that we come back to a place of self-love and understand the journey more - that we have come here just to have a series of experiences to learn from and that we need not do it all perfectly.”

Needs Humans Self Process Human Beings Accepting Journey Self Love Enlightenment Series Imperfection

Author:Christine McCormick Day

“I don't believe that human beings can achieve ultimate enlightenment, because humans have flaws.”

Believe Humans Human Beings Achieve Enlightenment Ultimate Don't Believe Flaws

Author:Tiger Woods

“The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.”

Life Humans Self Spiritual Values Spirituality Found Peace Human Beings Degrees Enlightenment Liberation True Value

Author:Albert Einstein

“I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats.”

Way Want Humans Human Beings Enlightenment Philosophical Fellows Seeking Saved Sinner Divides Sheep Righteous Goats Being Cool

Book:The Lives of Animals: The Lives of Animals [Princeton Classics]

Source: The Lives of Animals: The Lives of Animals [Princeton Classics]

“Mysticism is: a. An advanced state of inner enlightenment. b. Union with Reality. c. A state of genuinely satisfying success. d. Insight into an entirely new world of living. e. An intuitive grasp of Truth, above and beyond intellectual reasoning. f. A personal experience, in which we are happy and healthy human beings.”

World Humans States Reality Light Human Beings Healthy Intellectual Enlightenment Unions Insight Reasoning Mysticism Satisfying New World Intuitive Personal Experiences Above And Beyond

Author:Vernon Howard

“That's the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being.”

Firsts Humans Moments Human Beings Meditation Enlightenment First Time Sane Being Me

Author:Rajneesh

“A woman should keep her separateness, should save all her feminine qualities and purify them. In this way she is going, according to her nature, towards enlightenment. Of course once you are enlightened, you have gone beyond the discrimination of sexes. Beyond enlightenment, you are simply human beings. But before that... Be proud of your qualities. Increase them, refine them because they are the path towards godliness. Man is not in a better position than woman as far as religious experience is concerned.”

“Go beyond reason to love - it is safe. It is the only safety. Love all you can, and when you are ready all will be shown to you. The state of mind that most needs enlightenment is the one that sees human beings as needing to be guided or enlightened. The sin that most needs to be loved and forgiven is the state of mind that sees human beings as sinners.”

Needs Mind Humans States Reason Spiritual Human Beings Sin Ready Safe Enlightenment Safety Enlightened Sinner State Of Mind Forgiven Reason To Love

Book:The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment

Source: The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment

“To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.”

Humans Made Literature Human Beings Existence Path Clear Enlightenment Planning Aspiration

Book:Complete Short Stories of Joseph Conrad (Including His Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays: Unforgettable Tales like Heart of Darkness, Point of Honor, Falk, Secret Sharer, The Return & Freya of Seven Isles

Source: Complete Short Stories of Joseph Conrad (Including His Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays: Unforgettable Tales like Heart of Darkness, Point of Honor, Falk, Secret Sharer, The Return & Freya of Seven Isles

“The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.”

Mind Humans Persons Spiritual Human Beings Enlightenment Ignorant Buddhist Fixed Enlightened Flexible Adaptability Adaptable Ignorant People Ignorant Person

Author:Ajahn Sumedho

“Imagine a culture in which everything is geared toward helping all individuals become the best human beings they can be; in which individuals are driven to devoting their lives to becoming enlightened by the natural flood of compassion for others that arises from their wisdom.”

Source: Inner Revolution

“The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.”

Writing Humans Seems Political Individual Human Beings Numbers Cities Class Creation Enlightenment Empires Phenomenon Exploitation Integration Political Systems Large Numbers Castes

Author:Claude Levi-Strauss