Enlightenment Quotes - Page 5

The universe does not reveal itself to undergraduates or fools: This is the entire premise of higher education.

My spirit is healthy, yes. But I tell you, my flesh is healthy too. I am enlightened and free, but I am also lustful and carnal.

Individuals who are focused on becoming better are individuals not easily offended. You can only offend those who are not on a path of constant growth and enlightenment.

Always try and be a better person than you were yesterday, cause we aren't guaranteed tomorrow.

The problem is not that you have problems; the problem is that you see having problems as a problem.

You invoke a new future
when you envision your past
in the light of your present.

Some people spend their whole lives seeking heaven,
when all they needed to do was look about them,
and embrace that which was already there.

No matter how busy we may believe we are, we have the wonderful opportunity presently of investing time with loved ones. For those are the great investments we will be glad we made, when time begins to slow and the ability to tend turns tender.

In the search for truth,
what you believe matters less
than how you believe.

God’s love supersedes all religions and it is the core of all religions.

Learning and knowing something is cool, but superb knowledge comes when you leave your books and become the inner world's friend.

Ignorance is bliss. Denial is the reaction to a painful truth.

Without hope, Chöd practitioners are freed from the limits of hope and fear; having cut the ropes of grasping, definitely enlightened, where does one go?

Change happens for you
the moment you want something
more than you fear it.

The fearful seek to serve themselves by mastering the world, while the fearless seek to serve the world by mastering themselves.

To see through the illusion of duality, remember that fear and darkness have no substance in themselves, for they do not indicate the presence of a second universal force, but are only names given to the one Light unperceived.

The way to embody love completely is to see and appreciate life just as it is, and not as you believe, fear, or desire it to be.

We do not learn for the benefit of anyone, we learn to unlearn ignorance.

We are the reflections for the stars to gaze upon, upon a sea of glass.

You can capture me with your beauty, only if you are a brilliant photographer.