You may have expected that enlightenment would come like zap! Instantaneous and permanent. This is unlikely. After the first "aha" experience, it can be thought of as the thinning of a layer of clouds. —Ram Dass More about this quote Tags: experience enlightenment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Who cares if you're enlightened forever? Can you just get it in this moment, now? —Byron Katie More about this quote Tags: now moment forever enlightenment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Enlightenment is not an attainment; it is a realization. When you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes. If a blind man realizes that he can see, has the world changed? —Dan Millman More about this quote Tags: perception change realization nothing the world enlightenment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A person who says, "I'm enlightened," probably isn't. —Ram Dass More about this quote Tags: knowledge certainty doubt bias enlightenment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself. —Thomas Mann More about this quote Tags: vision recognition enlightenment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Freedom in not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment. —Henry Steele Commager in Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent More about this quote Tags: freedom security prosperity luxury enlightenment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretense. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true. —Adyashanti More about this quote Tags: truth destruction happiness enlightenment untruth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email