Enlightment Quotes

“Because it’s no longer enough to be a decent person. It’s no longer enough to shake our heads and make concerned grimaces at the news. True enlightened activism is the only thing that can save humanity from itself.”
― Joss Whedon

“I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorder, occasional clarity; and at the bottom of it all: only love; poetry. Sheer enchantment, fear, humiliation. It all comes with love”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Akhmatova Journals, Volume I: 1938-1941

“Eğitim, kültür ve bilgi aydınlığa açılan en geniş penceredir.”
― Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

“Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

“The observer is the observed and therein lies sanity, the whole, and with the holy is love.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti

“the problem with the world, is, far too many people drain their energy into what is wrong with their life; instead of holding gratitude for what's right in their life.”
― Nikki Rowe

“The mere fact that I exist, means that I deserve to be here and to express myself any damn way I please.”
― Euphoria Godsent

“People keep celebrating their birthdays on the WRONG date. Our birthdays change each year, but most people do not know — because they only know the Western system of life.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“A man with power protects and serves those lesser than he. It is only the weak who use their power to do harm.”
― Rhys Ford, Clockwork Tangerine

“Renewal of the mind is good for the soul because it allows you to be focused and gain understanding of your life choices. It allows you to renew your spirit and become uplifted filled with hope. Take a moment to transform those negative thoughts into something more positive. And, you will discover anything is possible when you believe.”
― Amaka Imani Nkosazana

“What is life to you Jonathan?” he asked”
― Suren Fant, Edge of End

“Students are like candles to be lit,
not vessels to be filled”
― The Wise Spirit

“Its just a part of life , just a chapter , just a phase ; it is to be over and it will but i has taught the harsh realities of life. In the end , your support lies in yourself. No one comes to rescue you , you have to gird up your loin against all the odds and you are to raise by your own. You cant make people happy. You will die trying to come up to their marks and you ll end up losing your own identity. Losing your self to any other is like deing uselessly.”
― Adeel bin ahmed

“We always tend to take comforts for salvation
If everything easy is supposed to be the solution
One would never reach enlightenment; in isolation.”
― Ricardo Derose

“People ask me where I got my x-ray powers. I inherited them from my parents in parental supervision. Erase the dots and your doubts if you think that I was 'raysed' alone.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, The Tao of Physical and Spiritual

“Self-deception and vanity are grievous sin. The ego is the cause of all human suffering. We suffer from life only when we fail to examine the cause of our sorrow. Letting go of destructive illusions and freeing oneself from egotism of self-pity enables a person to sense the rich intertexture of their inner world, which is the only facet of reality that we exercise exclusive dominion and control.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“... everything had changed but nothing was altered.”
― Mark Epstein, Going to Pieces without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness

“In the faces of humanity, the countenances that shine brightest are those whose minds are powered by wisdom's Divine supplier of enlightment...selah.”
― Tracey Bond

“You cannot obtain wisdom by walking only in your own garden because wisdom requires knowing beyond your frontiers!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The fact something is difficult does not mean to be confused.”
― Rudolf Rucker, Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension

“When the wild wave meets the calm beach, when anger reaches tranquillity, anger disappears, serenity triumphs, the wave experiences enlightenment!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Zen says God is not extrinsic, it is intrinsic. It is not there, it is here. And God is not then, God is now — and there is no other time. There is no other space. This moment is all. In this moment the whole existence converges, in this moment God is available here & now.”
― A Mystic

“Some places are just magical...

In fact, you can create your own sacred land wherever you go. Did you know?

Sacred land is where you decide it to be.
Home is where you decide it to be.
(He)art is where you decide it to be.

Make sure you place it everywhere you go!”
― Laurence BL

“... How can you describe water if you've never gotten wet? You don't need the human intellect to reach the mind of God.”
― Karen Yang LeBeau (Introduction, page xxiv) in <i>Quietly comes the Buddha</i>

“True self is rooted in being”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“You get what you choose with your soul, whatever you long for most manifests itself.”
― Shiva Negi

“A step further in convalescence: and the free spirit again draws near to life—slowly, to be sure, almost reluctantly, almost mistrustfully. It again grows warmer around him, yellower, as it were; feeling and feeling for others acquire depth, warm breezes of all kind blows across him. It seems to him as if his eyes are only now open to what is close at hand. He is astonished and sits silent: where had he been? These close and closest things: how changed they seem! what bloom and magic they have acquired!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“At that time it may finally happen that, under the sudden illumination of a still stressful, still changeable health, the free, ever freer spirit begins to unveil the riddle of that great liberation which had until then waited dark, questionable, almost untouchable in his memory. If he has for long hardly dared to ask himself: 'why so apart? so alone? renouncing everything I once reverenced? renouncing reverence itself? why this hardness, this suspiciousness, this hatred for your own virtues?'—now he dares to ask it aloud and hears in reply something like an answer. 'You shall become master over yourself, master also over your virtues. Formerly they were your masters; but they must be only your instruments beside other instruments. You shall get control over your For and Against and learn how to display first one and then the other in accordance with your higher goal. You shall learn to grasp the sense of perspective in every value judgement—the displacement, distortion and merely apparent tel- eology of horizons and whatever else pertains to perspectivism; also the quantum of stupidity that resides in antitheses of values and the whole intellectual loss which every For, every Against costs us. You shall learn to grasp the necessary injustice in every For and Against, injustice as inseparable from life, life itself as conditioned by the sense of perspective and its injustice. You shall above all see with your own eyes where injustice is always at its greatest: where life has developed at its smallest, narrowest, neediest, most incipient and yet cannot avoid taking itself as the goal and measure of things and for the sake of its own preservation secretly and meanly and ceaselessly crumbling away and calling into question the higher, greater, richer—you shall see with your own eyes the problem of order of rank, and how power and right and spaciousness of perspective grow into the heights together. You shall' – enough: from now on the free spirit knows what 'you shall' he has obeyed, and he also knows what he now can, what only now he may do...”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“Seen from a higher perspective, conditions are always positive. To be more precise: they are neither positive nor negative. They are as they are. And when you live in complete acceptance of what is — which is the only sane way to live — there is no “good” or “bad” in your life anymore. There is only a higher good — which includes the “bad.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Nothing out there will ever satisfy you except temporarily and superficially, but you may need to experience many disillusionments before you realize that truth. Things and conditions can give you pleasure, but they will also give you pain. Things and conditions can give you pleasure, but they cannot give you joy. Nothing can give you joy. Joy is uncaused and arises from within as the joy of Being. It is an essential part of the inner state of peace, the state that has been called the peace of God. It is your natural state, not something that you need to work hard for or struggle to attain.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment