Best enlightenment & liberation Quotes

“There are many paths that lead to enlightenment. There are lesser enlightenments along the way to a larger enlightenment, referred to sometimes as liberation.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is vain to think that we choose, that our own energy, our own intellect will create the possibility of us experiencing a higher order of existence. Liberation is to know you are that.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“There's not really a whole lot you could say about liberation. The closest experience you can have of it is to come meditate with someone who is liberated.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“I don't work with men who are antagonistic to the liberation of women. I do work with quite a number of men who are supportive of the enlightenment of women. Such men are rare.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is equally easy, initially, for either a man or a woman to attain enlightenment, what we would call liberation or self-realization.”

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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”

“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.”

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Author:Immanuel Kant

“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.”

“I began researching and writing what I intended as a book-length essay entitled Fascination and Liberation, exploring the question of whether there is a conflict between creativity and the Eastern form of enlightenment. I don't know if I'll ever finish that essay, because I had an experience, after I'd written two or three chapters, in which it seemed to me that my psychic antibodies decisively rejected Buddhism. Interestingly, the rejection felt as if it happened in Zen terms.”

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

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Author:Albert Einstein

“In Europe, the Enlightenment of the 18th century was seen as a battle against the desire of the Church to limit intellectual freedom, a battle against the Inquisition, a battle against religious censorship. And the victory of the Enlightenment in Europe was seen as pushing religion away from the center of power. In America, at the same time, the Enlightenment meant coming to a country where people were not going to persecute you by reason of your religion. So it meant a liberation into religion. In Europe, it was liberation out of religion.”

“To limit yourself to a label of "alcoholic" is masochistic and false if you have awakened a deeper spiritual identity within and have come to know your true self as unconditioned pure awareness. This doesn't mean that recovering alcoholics don't have to be concerned with relapsing, they must always remain vigilant. The power of addiction should not be underestimated. This exercise in vigilance can become a spiritual tool of liberation as well. Always being aware of choosing between real happiness and false happiness is also the discrimination required to attain enlightenment.”

“There is only one way of attaining liberation and of obtaining the omniscience of enlightenment: following an authentic spiritual master.”

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Author:Sogyal Rinpoche

“Retreating from the world will not liberate you. Happiness is not found in a secluded forest hut or isolated cave. Enlightenment comes when you connect to the world. Only when you truly connect with everyone and everything else do you become Enlightened. Only by going deeply and fully into the world do you attain liberation.”

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Book:Essential Chan Buddhism: The Character and Spirit of Chinese Zen

Source: Essential Chan Buddhism: The Character and Spirit of Chinese Zen

“Right now you feel stuck in the web of Time and Space. But when you become free from Time, you will realize that you were never stuck. Because you will become free from past too.”

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Author:Shunya

“As long as you perceive that anyone is holding you back, you have not taken full responsibility for your own liberation. Liberation means that you stand free of making demands on others and on life to make you happy. When you discover yourself to be nothing but Freedom, you stop setting up conditions and requirements that need to be satisfied in order for you to be happy. It is in the absolute surrender of all conditions and requirements that Liberation is discovered to be who and what you Are. Then the love and wisdom that flows out of you have a liberating effect on others. (p. 119)”

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Book:The Impact of Awakening: Excerpts from the Teachings of Adyashanti

Source: The Impact of Awakening: Excerpts from the Teachings of Adyashanti

“By clearing your mind, you cleanse the karma of this life time, all the memories, biases & conditionings, that prevent you from seeing & experiencing the truth as it is. When you free your mind, you simulteneously set your spirit free from the karma of all your lifetimes. That is the moment of mukti, salvation, liberation, enlightenment, born again, freedom.”

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Author:Zen Everest

“This (liberation) isn't something I can help you with. I can tell you what you need to do, but you have to do it. In the beginning, teachers can help a lot. But the deeper you go, all they can do is point, and clarify, and tell you what you need to do. Only you can take this step. Nobody can push you into this place. It's like Buddha's final night under the Bodhi tree. What did he do when confronted with this? He reached down and touched the ground and said, „I will not be moved.“ Finally – when everything that could be thrown at him was thrown, and he was still unmoved – it was done. He never looked back. (p. 99)”

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Book:The Impact of Awakening: Excerpts from the Teachings of Adyashanti

Source: The Impact of Awakening: Excerpts from the Teachings of Adyashanti

“Be it a happy song or a sad song, you don't think about its end while listening to it. Inner journey is like a song. Yes, it will end. But if you are thinking about the end, you haven't tuned into the song yet.”

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Author:Shunya

“if your purpose is to find enlightenment, then seek it not outside, but inside, and if your purpose is helping others, then renounce nothing but your obsession for possessions and help those in need in whichever way you can.”

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Book:Monk Meets World

Source: Monk Meets World

“Your mind is a net. It can catch flies (worldly information). It can catch butterflies (spiritual knowledge), But it can’t catch the fragrance (Supreme Truth).”

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Author:Shunya

“If a person wants to walk on the path of the Vitrag (Enlightened Ones), he should turn the upayog (applied awareness) from bad to good. And if the person wants to attain moksha (ultimate liberation), he should keep shudha upayog (pure applied awareness as the Self). The person who wants to attain moksha should not get into the intricacy of good or bad, and should keep them both as things to be ‘discharged’.”

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Book:Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

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