Enlightenment Quotes

Some excellent Enlightenment Quotes:

• Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.
  Morihei Ueshiba
  
  
• When one tugs at a single thing in Nature, he finds it hitched to the rest of the Universe.
  John Muir

• Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.
  Friedrich Durrenmatt
  
  
• Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
  Lao-Tze
  

• Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.
  Ernest Holmes
  
  
• Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.
  Idries Shah
  
  
• Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment.
  Morihei Ueshiba
  
  
• Though you may travel the world to find the beautiful, you must have it within you or you will find it not.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Enlightenment Quotes

• If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak.
  Satish Kumar
  
  
• Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.
  Bill Richardson

• You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
  James Allen
  
  
• Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
  Bodhidharma
  
  
• The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.
  Nikos Kazantzakis
  
  
• To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
  Buddha

Enlightenment Quotes

• Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.
  Dogen Zenji
  
  
• What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.
  Anthony de Mello

• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
  Ambrose Redmoon
  
  
• Enlightenment is the ultimate goal.
  Author of this Web-Site

More Famous and Enlightening Quotes

• The kingdom of God is just behind the darkness of closed eyes, and the first gate that opens to it is your peace.
  Paramhansa Yogananda (Meditation Quotes)
  
  
• We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
  Lord Buddha (Buddha Quotes)
  
  
• I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
  Mahatma Gandhi (Gandhi Quotes)
  
  
• Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
  Mother Teresa (Mother Teresa Quotes)
  
  
• Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.
  Lord Jesus Christ (God Quotes)
  
  
• An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
  Martin Luther King Jr. (Famous Quotes)
  
  

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