Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists.
Only the rich can achieve enlightenment because the poor are too busy looking for fridge freezers.
The Art of Peace begins with you.
No self-effort in the direction of enlightenment is ever wasted. Even if you don't become fully enlightened in a given lifetime, you will be much happier and more aware.
The average woman today is almost completely out of touch with her own power.
To be completely enlightened means that you're a Buddha. I don't speak of enlightenment.
Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
There are some careers that will develop your mind more than others. In the study of enlightenment, it is most important to develop your mind and your body.
People imagine enlightenment will make them incredibly powerful. And it does. It makes you the most powerful being in all the universe- but usually no one else notices.
Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.
Being on the path means we again meditate with joy. We deal with the suffering of life and the pain of existence without perfect enlightenment with a smile.
When you get a new worldview you get a new world. It's like the shift from medieval Christianity to the Renaissance and enlightenment.
My "drop in the ocean" will contribute to the enlightenment of Europe, so to speak.
Enlightenment doesn't occur by accident. It is a deliberate decision that someone makes again and again. It is something you grow into and develop in.
Paradoxically, the more deeply one grows in enlightenment, the more clearly one discerns one's own frailties and limitations.
Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.
The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.
In the West people are basically oblivious to power, solstices, enlightenment and everything that matters.
Enlightenment after all is to overcome delusion, by way of sensitizing practitioners to complexities and problems of the human situation.
A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things.