Enlightenment Quotes - Page 2

More and more obstacles seem to be other people's issues that form in the way of a hand to block one, to take notice of them? Sometimes noticing ahead of time, and taking the time to notice them, makes the hand part of an arm that embraces you. The obstacles become bridges for both to cross over, even if in opposite directions.

Everything you experience is a blessing and pushes you toward realizing your true self.

In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.

We can only forgive the world to the extent that we forgive ourselves for being in it.

The real world reveals itself like surprise gifts on our doorstep, special moments that seem above and beyond the reality of others. These times are full, beautiful and meaningful beyond words, even when wrapped in pain.

The greatest book is one written by your pen, but not exactly from your mind.

It doesn't matter how you conceive of divinity. It only matters that you see it in everything, including yourself.

You can lead and motivate people without a certificate or title, what you need to do is to tell people a compelling secret that was only known to you.

If you go to war with your mind, you will always be at war.

Death people who are still alive at this hour, must resurrect and ascend to the intellectual heaven where there is no ignorance.

Wisdom is not counted in grammers, niether in fluency, but vividly shown in mannerism.

To think is to have doubt....yet even thinking will bring you to "no thought"....eventually.

With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you - that's my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage you from your very roots! Unless you are totally destroyed as a mind, there is no hope for you.

Enlightenment is not a goal to be attained, it is a state-of-being to be regained.

I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty obvious to me that more often than not the batteries fade, and sometimes what you knew even goes out with a bang when you try and call on it, just like a light bulb cracking off when you throw the switch.

This thing I am feeling, I’m almost certain, is the closest I’ll ever come to standing somewhere in between truth and reconciliation.

He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets - most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth.

Wenn Gott in seiner Rechten alle Wahrheit und in seiner Linken den einzigen immer regen Trieb nach Wahrheit, obschon mit dem Zusatze, mich immer und ewig zu irren, verschlossen hielte und spräche zu mir: wähle! Ich fiele ihm mit Demut in seine Linke und sagte: Vater gib! die reine Wahrheit ist ja doch nur für dich allein!

People often associate complexity with deeper meaning, when often after precious time has been lost, it is realized that simplicity is the key to everything.

How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?