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Enlightenment Quotes

Enlightenment quotes remind us to step aside from our attachments to material goods and human concerns. This quote collection offers many unique pathways to attaining enlightenment. Pay attention to this moment.

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No one saves us by but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
Buddha

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

According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don’t bother you anymore. You become light hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous.
Deepak Chopra

Enlightenment takes place when one lets his innocence emerge and sees nature and life with a childlike awe and respect. The ‘why’ of a child is repeated over and over, causing questions and the never-ending process of discovery.
Charles DuBack

If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is ‘the quiet acceptance of what is’.
Wayne Dyer

The the illuminated mind the whole world sparkles with light.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.
Thich Nhat Hanh

Enlightenment is not imagining figures of light, but making the darkness conscious.
Carl Jung

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
Hazrat Inayat Khan

He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.
Lao Tzu

There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take the one with a heart.
Lao Tzu

Zen has no gates. The purpose of Buddha's words is to enlighten others. Therefore Zen should be gateless. But, how does one pass through the gateless gate?
Mumon

Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.
Zen Proverb

Unity is divinity, purity is enlightenment.
Sathya Sai Baba

Enlightenment is the journey back from the head to the heart.
Ravi Shankar

Enlightenment is very possible for the ordinary individual. Actually, it is easier than for someone who thinks that they are special.
Ravi Shankar

Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.
Eckhart Tolle

The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being.
Eckhart Tolle

True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.
Voltaire



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