Best 2099 quotes in «enlightenment quotes» category

Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

By renouncing samsara, we renounce our habitual grasping, unhappy minds. And by renouncing samsara, we embrace our potential for enlightenment.

By nature, it's impossible to describe enlightenment! How do you plan on sharing your enlightenment? Hahaha, that's impossible. Wake up! That'll be the end of the world if you ever succeed!

Care, but don't be pushy! Don't preach about enlightenment to people who don't really want to hear about it.

Don't move. Just die over and over. Don't anticipate. Nothing can save you now because you have only this moment. Not even enlightenment will help you now because there are no other moments. With no future, be true to yourself and express yourself fully. Don't move.

Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute.

Consumer goods become enlightenment, relationships, anything! It doesn't really matter because infinity exists in everything. "Greater than the greatest, smaller than the smallest, the self dwells in the hearts of all," that is the Upanishads.

Create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path

Culture, with its processes and functions, is a subject upon which we need all the enlightenment we can achieve, and there is no direction in which we can seek with greater reward than in the facts of pre-literate societies.

Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency.

Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!

Do not try to correct the mind. Trying to correct the mind is like trying to correct the waves in the ocean. Can you stop the waves in the ocean? If you want to see an ocean without waves you only have to dive deeper. When you dive deep inside you will experience the stillness of the ocean. And if it is all frozen that is enlightenment.

Each river is different, but they all eventually lead to the ocean. No matter what we’re doing or when, or whether it brings us happiness or remorse, gain or loss, we’re all on our individual paths to enlightenment. Even when we’ve done something we consider wrong, we’re still on our path to enlightenment.

Dualistic doctrines that regard mind and body as separate entities do not provide much enlightenment on the nature of the disembodied mental state or on how an immaterial mind and bodily events act on each other

Each of the small enlightenments that a Zen practitioner has, which are known in Zen as "Satori experiences," provides deeper insights into the nature of existence and helps a person prepare for complete enlightenment.

Enlightenment after all is to overcome delusion, by way of sensitizing practitioners to complexities and problems of the human situation.

Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment.

Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.

Enlightenment consists not merely in the seeing of luminous shapes and visions, but in making the darkness visible. The latter procedure is more difficult and therefore, unpopular.

Enlightenment doesn't mean you stop being a student. Being a student is a state of mind. Enlightenment simply means that you are everything and everywhere. It doesn't preclude being a student.

Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think.

Enlightenment has nothing to do with physical knowledge. It is the experience of existence. Existence is infinite. There are countless universes and creations taking place simultaneously.

Enlightenment is a destructive process.

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 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 finding that there is nothing to find. Enlightenment is to come to know that there is nowhere to go.

Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead it's about becoming more fully human. . . . It is the end of ignorance.

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 isn't found with a full stomach, or on a soft pillow.

Enlightenment is probably antithetical to impatience.

Enlightenment comes through the feminine side of the being.

Enlightenment doesn't simply mean being in heavenly states of mind. It doesn't mean being a saint.

Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretence. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.

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.

Enlightenment is any experience of expanding our consciousness beyond its present limits.

Enlightenment is "being," and it grows; it's end is serenity.

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.

Enlightenment is not a complete remedy.

Enlightenment is not a state of mind, yet all states of mind are contained within it.

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 scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark.

Enlightenment is the only real antidote to the world's despair.

Enlightenment is the realization of the oneness of being, where otherness disappears.

Enlightenment means having no human mind, no limitations. Your awareness is eternity, timeless, infinite, beyond boundaries, and yet it exists within all things.

Enlightenment means that you're in love with all of life, with not only immortality but mortality.

Enlightenment means that you've become a sophisticated perceiver, without letting anyone know that you're sophisticated.

Enlightenment remains unrealized so long as it is considered as a specific state to be attained, and for which there are standards of success.

Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.