Enlightenment Principles Quotes

“The greatest challenge in life is to be our own person and accept that being different is a blessing and not a curse. A person who knows who they are lives a simple life by eliminating from their orbit anything that does not align with his or her overriding purpose and values. A person must be selective with their time and energy because both elements of life are limited.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Your mind shines brightest when you enlighten others; your heart, when you encourage others; your soul, when you elevate others; and your life, when you empower others.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Enlightenment is the complete flowering of body, mind and the soul.”
― Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step

“The sun is sitting on whom I was in order that I can become the type of person that I wish to be. The beauty of twilight is that it enhances everything. Personal change requires the courage to let go of personal security and venture into a new worlds. I look forward exploring personal thoughts and behaviors, and probing community customs and rituals. I hope to meet new people, expand knowledge of the world, eclipse my egoistical way of living, and devolve a lifestyle that in is synch with the natural rhythmic flow of that governs all lifeforms that inhabit this crusty rock and the watery world of rivers, seas, and oceans. I resolve to accept witnessing the splendor of nature as sufficient to satisfy all my wants and desires while also seeking to increase self-control, and attempt to sprinkle kindness upon the doorsteps leading to other people’s hearts.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“If you can see the little things and the small details around you as big things, you're enlightened!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Self-mastery epitomizes the height a person’s of measureable success. Conversely, we can gauge the depth of personal failure by a person’s degree of lack of self-control and self-abandonment.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Self-mastery is the first step towards attaining enlightenment. Change begins with personal dissatisfaction and belief that a person can do better. A person can set meaningful goals and vow not to hold onto frivolous attachments. My objective is to cultivate the ability to expect the best effort from myself and never be afraid to tackle the type of difficult projects or pursue scintillating adventures that spur mental growth. I aim to become a loyal, loving, and joyful person, and broaden personal knowledge through a self-prescribed course of active reading and studious contemplation. I aspire to use an expanded base of knowledge to live a more ethical and principled existence and rid myself of self-defeating behaviors brought on by brooding doubts regarding the paucity of my innate talent. Instead of grieving over what I failed to achieve, I plan to concentrate upon what I can achieve and bring the collective force of my newly resolved mindset to the forefront.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“A person cannot exert absolute control over a capricious environment. A wise person concentrates on serenely adjusting to variable permutations in the environs. A personal journey is less anxious if a person resolves to serve as a conscious witness to the natural world and the unfolding lives of family and friends. It is emotionally stabilizing when we no longer delude ourselves with grand fantasies about living and dying, experience life for what it is and stop wishing for a different existence, an altered universe. Nothing good comes from resisting reality.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“An enlightened person knows what idea is worthy of living and dying for.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Misery develops in the insidious seams created by imprecision and faulty human thinking. The cure for unhappiness is finding joy by embracing human nature.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, emotions, and sensations occurring in the present moment is essential to comprehend and appreciate the beauty of existence. Living in the moment in a non-judgmental manner allows a person to accept what is without wasting emotional energy and valuable time wishing or hoping for something besides objective reality.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Mastering the art of detachment and attachment is the art of mastering life and spirituality.”
― Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step

“Eternity does not wait for the future; it is present in this tiny moment and holds the secrets of the whole cosmos.”
― Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step

“A person whom lives in a deliberate and thoughtful manner can resist passively assimilating society’s deviant values and unwholesome cultural mores, and live in a courageous and generous manner while passionately pursuing a full life that transcends wastefulness, miserly accumulation, and exploitation of other people.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Unselfishly loving other people and extending compassion to everyone is essential to live an honorable, happy, and self-fulfilling life. A person must fearlessly love in an uninhibited manner and express their love in an open manner without reservation or qualification.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster

“I stand on the banks of time silently witnessing the world change beneath my feet. I arrive at a desirable place in a world when I learn to accept a world devoid of my paltry existence. When my self-inflicted wounds heal, I will stand as mute as a mountain impervious to the whimsy of the quaking world and no longer be deluded into aspiring to be a member of a fantasy world of pleasure-seeking people. Fame and fortune do not matter to an enlightened person, it is sufficient simply to be present and unflinchingly support all life forms without hesitation.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“We each possess the inner strength of mind to discover a state of knowledge, inner peace, and bliss.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“A person who seeks an enlightened existence must awaken to realize universal truths.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“The more that a person immerses themselves into a body of work that calls upon them to draw their life sustaining sustenance from an internal well of compassion the closer a person comes to developing, maintaining, and displaying the wholesome glow radiating from a peaceful mind.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“A beautiful mind’s humble carriage shelters a flowering equanimity, which elegant bloom fluoresces from living in harmonization with everyday moments.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Enlightenment is when we allow ourselves to melt like a sugar cube into the hot tea of God.”
― Maureen Muldoon, Spiritual Vixen's Guide to an Unapologetic Life

“The path of enlightenment will remain closed forever to those who refuse to give up their ego!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Humans have fashioned the relationship with God into a vertical pattern, in adherance to their desire for hierarchy. The higher on this vertical pattern they perceive themselves to be, the better they feel they are in comparison to others. But they have lost before they have even begun! For the relationship with God is a horizontal pattern, not a vertical one. The only true religion is what manifests in how we treat our fellow people, animals, and the world we have been gifted with. The only relationship with God is born in our relationship with what is horizontal, what is parallel, to us.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“No one in this world has ever been enlightened by reading a single book, or taking a single trip or working with a single teacher! The way to enlightenment is to drink water from every fountain, not from just one!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Transparency is the only way to enlightenment”
― Aleksandra Ninković

“The Metonymy of Man and Woman
By: Lorena Tamayo Castillo

Woman is, indeed, the star in the sky.
The Angel on heaven.
The man we call is the wall of the earth.
The Zeus in the atmosphere.
The sun in the universe.
And she pivoted as the light of the house
For him he evolves as the pillar of the abode.
Man and woman uphold their image.
They meet and teem, and changes ensue.
From their foot is their progeny.
That have root, a genre of effigy.
For they were made in the twilight.
And cannot stand with the sunlight.
They fair with the star.
And be charge as a to illumine.
To give glow to those, who bemoan in the dusk.
They will shine to show the moon in the dark.”
― Lorena Tamayo Castillo

“Disciple: Master, I'm tired now, I've given up enlightenment, I've failed, I'm leaving the temple and going my own way, I'm going on my own long journey, please don't be mad at me! Master: This is how enlightenment begins! When you start to go your own way by leaving the path given to you and to progress and develop under the guidance of your own mind, enlightenment has also started, I am not angry with you, quite the opposite!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Your thoughts are what bring reality to life.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Someday, the spirits of the Renaissance and Enlightenment will arrive in Brazil, centuries late.”
― Geverson Ampolini

“Listen to your soul's inner wisdom.”
― Delphanie Frank