- “…to be aware of the miracle entailed in every moment of living…” ― Paul Brunton, Advanced Contemplation: The Peace Within You
- “If there is ambrosia in this world,Then it is your kiss,It is your kiss,It is your kiss.If there is alchemy in this world,Then it is your touch,It is your touch,It is your touch.If there is magic in this world,Then it is your face,It is your face,It is your face.If there is wonder in this world,Then it is your smile,It is your smile,It is your smile.If there is perfection in this world,Then it is you,It is you,It is you.If there is truth in this world,Then this is it,This is it,This is it.” ― ~Sw. Chidananda Tirtha
- “The here and the beyond are enough, but there were a few angels for whom it was not enough: who demanded a third dimension–who sought fusions, communes, who ate each other and created sex.” ― Dale Pendell, Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft
- “Thoughts, by their nature, come and go endlessly in you. But you are not the thought; you are the one seeing the thought, so any thought of who you are cannot be the truth of who you are.” ― Enza Vita
- “Buddhas are innocent beings, they can easily be judged. Yet, judging a Buddha is the worst thing humanity keeps on doing to itself.” ― Saroj Aryal
- “The temporal cannot know the Eternal, so to the extent that the Sufi contemplates God in his heart, God Himself is the contemplator: Ultimately, the Witness, the Witnesser, and the Witnessing are all one. (p. 288)” ― William C. Chittick, Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi
- “Early on in our national development, we were a nation of open frontiers, a giant ocean-to-ocean project to root the rarified ideals of the Enlightenment in real soil. Today, there are no more uncharted territories for the descendants of Lewis and Clark to explore. Our maps are detailed and our borders defined.” ― Michael Shindler
- “There are no „others“. What appears to be „other than God“ is in fact foam upon the Ocean, forms manifesting meanings, the Hidden Treasure displaying itself outwardly, sunlight upon a wall. All multiplicity is the manifestation of Unity. (p. 304)” ― William C. Chittick, Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi
- “A personality is dynamic. You will have many pulls and pushes, and impulses, driving you towards different elements in your life and forcing you to make choices during your existence on Earth. Some choices will be more related to your need to belong, others with your need for financial security and some others related to sexual impulses. But only the spiritual impulse can make you successful and happy. How to recognize it? Well, that is, quite simply, the impulse to make connections that last, changes that change you in return and as much as you should change in the right direction, and above all, it is found in the inner impulse towards the recognition of love. The consequences of refusing this spiritual dynamic are found in disappointment, loneliness, despair and a whole wasted lifetime that can’t be recovered and opportunities that will never be seen again. As you grow older, and your timing on Earth gets shorter, only an increased sense of spiritual self can help you recover whatsoever seemed lost in a miraculous way.” ― Dan Desmarques, Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques
- “We unthinkingly build the pilings of our lives upon whatever comes along. Like it or not, we play the hand that fate deals us. If fate is kind, some people credit their fortuitous circumstances to their ingenuity and resoluteness. If fate is cruel, some people curse God. The truth is that an unenlightened person resists suffering, they continually wish for a world different than it is, whereas an enlightened person learns how to suffer heroically.” ― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
- “The awakened state of enlightenment is your own awareness that is naturally awake. (p. 102)” ― Padmasambhava, Advice from the Lotus-Born: A Collection of Padmasambhava’s Advice to the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal and Other Close Disciples
- “I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good idea to let him know. After all, if you are a Buddha you should be able to figure it out for yourself.” ― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
- “The one who protects the body-complex (pudgal) is not the ‘enlightened one’ (Gnani). A Gnani is the protector of only the Soul and it’s natural attributes.” ― Dada Bhagwan
- “Enlightenment humanism, then, is far from being a crowd-pleaser. The idea that the ultimate good is to use knowledge to enhance human welfare leaves people cold. Deep explanations of the universe, the planet, life, the brain? Unless they use magic, we don’t want to believe them! Saving the lives of billions, eradicating disease, feeding the hungry? Bo-ring. People extending their compassion to all of humankind? Not good enough—we want the laws of physics to care about us! Longevity, health, understanding, beauty, freedom, love? There’s got to be more to life than that!” ― Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
- “Someone whose heart is at peace is blessed. Peace of mind comes when we let go of our attachments. Attachments come from foolishness, and foolishness develops when we don’t know the purpose of our lives. We become attached to money, prestige, and people When we doubt know why we live, why we’ve come to the Earth and what we should live for.” ― Ilchi Lee, I’ve Decided to Live 120 Years: The Ancient Secret to Longevity, Vitality, and Life Transformation
- “The soul conforms to the mind and body that it inhabits.” ― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
- “It is ultimately the ebony of our pain, our blackest monuments, which lead us to seek an enlightened way of living. We are unable to hear the voice leading to our own salvation until we fall into the depths of an abbess manufactured by living a heedless life. From this state of floundering in the gloomy lagoon, we can awaken to find the light bearing the seeds of truth that will redeem us. Looking inward, we overcome stubborn resistance, and we revivify long lost and forgotten powers. The experience of soul-searching perspicacity transfigures us. We might even feel as if we died a spiritual death and then we were reborn. From our dark pit, a shaft of light emerges.” ― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
- “What is human beauty based on? It is based on how much egoism one has. Gnani Purush (the enlightened one) is without egoism so his beauty is beyond words!” ― Dada Bhagwan
- “Chaos is nothing more than beauty about to dance.” ― A.D. Posey
- “You are a victim only when you have decided to play the part.” ― Gary Hopkins
- “And as for the enlightened, one can only pity them the deceptions of their muses.” ― Alex Stein, Weird Emptiness: Essays and Aphorisms
- “Do not shake up the water in my snow globe. You’ve been warned.” ― Kim Cormack, Enlightenment
- “Yeshe Tsogyal was a woman: there may be some people who believe that only men can attain enlightenment, but her life is proof of the opposite. In actual fact, the awakened state of mind is neither male nor female.” ― Padmasambhava, Advice from the Lotus-Born: A Collection of Padmasambhava’s Advice to the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal and Other Close Disciples
- “Enlightenment is the AWARENESS that ALL is ONE and ONE is ALL. Ignorance is the illusion of separateness.” ― Manprit Kaur
- “As you develop your realization of Dharma, you reach higher and higher levels of the path, culminating in the attainment of the full enlightenment or Buddhahood. Dharma is the true refuge.” ― Dalai Lama XIV, Illuminating the Path to Enlightenment
- “The fragrance of meditation is enlightenment.” ― Swami Dhyan Giten
- “Was this how trauma worked? she wondered. Those closest to it remained dumbfounded by the fact that those who weren’t present could derive meaning from it?” ― Kevin Wilson, The Family Fang
- “Day and night, look into your mind. If your stream of mind contains any nonvirtue, renounce it from the core of your heart and pursue virtue.” ― Padmasambhava, Advice from the Lotus-Born: A Collection of Padmasambhava’s Advice to the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal and Other Close Disciples
- “Nobody makes anybody enlightened.Just tell them what you want to say,then let them decide for themselves.” ― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
- “The Greatest achievement of a human being is to one day realize that they are and have always been connected to a universal soul, that they are more powerful and more capable than they have ever imagined, that they are not insignificant evolutionary happenings but instead the architects of their entire worldly experience!” ― Ricardo Cruz Leal, Raw, Naked & Fearless: 11 Principles for Living Your Greatest Life