- “It’s always best to feel fulfilled first, before finding a man. Then you’ll know the value of yourself, and you’ll hold the key to your own happiness. So you won’t turn into a vulnerable, needy, emotional mess the minute you fall in love.” ― Menna van Praag, Men, Money and Chocolate: What more could there be to life?
- “Study yourself. Become your own mentor and best friend. When you are suffering stay at the bottom until you find out who you are. Let the storms come and pass. How you walk through the fire says a lot about you. Nobody likes a victimhood mentality and what happened to you is not important. It is about how you use your chaos that matters. The dawn will come” ― Mohadesa Najumi
- “Jealousy, and attempting to match others in life and stride, is self-abandonment.” ― Grace Sara, Awakening in the 21st Century: Surviving a Spiritually Dormant Society
- “We were wiser as children if not for anything else but for our ability to always reflect. Reflection is a powerful tool to move forward into an enlightened stage of wisdom. Children reflect everyday about being reprehended, what made them happy, something new they discovered. This constant state of reflection is what makes them grow and unfortunately the arrogance of adulthood brings reflection to a halt and puts a stop to a continual growth that we should pursue, as we once did.” ― Avra Amar Filion
- “Science’ (vignan) is always principled and it brings an end to all the misery. ‘Science’ is the only solution for it, but it must be the experiential science of Gnani Purush (the enlightened one).” ― Dada Bhagwan, Autobiograpy of Gnani Purush A.M.Patel
- “Your imagination is the vehicle to enlightenment.” ― Gary Hopkins
- “There are hundreds of paths to enlightenment out there. If we imagine that enlightenment is a mountain and the goal is to reach the top for the grandest viewpoint, we can also acknowledge that there are many routes up the mountain. While some routes might be more direct than others, every route experiences a different side or view of the mountain—or enlightenment.” ― Natasha Potter
- “When I use the word “spiritual,” I don’t necessarily mean religious faith. It is quite obvious that there are two levels of spirituality—spirituality with religious faith and that without. Obviously, an individual can manage to lead a meaningful life without religious faith, but you can’t be a happy person without the spirituality of basic human values. As long as we remain human, there is no way that we can neglect this.” ― Dalai Lama XIV, Illuminating the Path to Enlightenment
- “Ruthless destruction of an ego is a rather simple matter. Preserving the host deprived of an ego is a more delicate affair. How does a person engage in momentous battle with the self while simultaneously struggling to maintain their cerebral, emotive, and spiritual equilibrium in the thin air of consciousness? How assiduously does an agitated mind need to work in order to achieve the elusive degree of emotional and mental quietness that I seek?” ― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
- “Enlightenment is the ultimate nourishment for body, mind, and soul. It is the ultimate freedom and ecstasy of life.” ― Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
- “According to Buddhism, all existents abide in loving-kindness free from concepts in their absolute nature. But the understanding and realization of that true nature have been covered over by the webs of our own mental, emotional, and intellectual obscurations. Now, in order to uncover the true nature and its qualities, we must dispel the cover — our unhealthy concepts, emotions, and actions. Through the power of devotion and contemplation, we must uncover and see the true innate enlightened qualities — loving-kindness that is free from concepts — shining forever.” ― Tulku Thondup, The Heart of Unconditional Love: A Powerful New Approach to Loving-Kindness Meditation
- “We are creating a scientific energy field, where your energies can be transformed into their optimum potential. And when a man is really aflame with love, God has happened. And only with the happening of God can you be contented and can you be blissful. Only with the happening of God does misery disappear and do hells become non-existent . . . And when I said this is a Sufi assembly, I literally meant it. See this silence, this grace, this benediction that is showering on you? See this stillness? See this faqr ? In this moment there is no ego in you, but only a pure silence. The personality has disappeared, there is only presence, and the light rises to the highest heavens. Wherever the wild ones meet, the mad ones meet, wherever there is simplicity and love, and wherever there is prayer, zikr , remembrance of God, this miracle happens. You may not be able to see it. It is happening. I am not just teaching you about God. I am not interested in giving you knowledge about God. I am sharing my God with you; it is a sharing. I want to challenge your God which is asleep inside you, to provoke it. And that is the work Sufis have been doing down the ages: provoking the potential into the actual.” ― Osho, The Secret
- “Live simply. Deepest joy is like a flower….beautiful in essence.” ― Tony Samara
- “Now and then we know a moment of supreme bliss, when we ask nothing, give nothing, know nothing but bliss. Then it passes, and we again see the panorama of the universe moving before us; and we know that it is but a mosaic work set upon God, who is the background of all things. Vedanta teaches that nirvana can be attained here and now, that we do not have to wait for death to reach it. Nirvana is the realization of the Self, and after having once known that, if only for an instant, never again can one be deluded by the mirage of personality. Having eyes, we must see the apparent, but all the time we know what it is; we have found out its true nature. It is the screen that hides the Self, which is unchanging. The screen opens and we find the Self behind it. All change is the screen. In the saint the screen is thin, and the reality can almost shine through. In the sinner the screen is thick, and we are able to lose sight of the truth that the atman [Self] is there, as well as behind the saint’s screen. When the screen is wholly removed, we find it never existed—that we were the atman and nothing else, even the screen is forgotten.The two phases of this distinction in life are: First, that the man, who knows the real Self, will not be affected by anything; secondly, that that man alone can do good to the world. That man alone will have seen the real motive of doing good to others, because there is only one. It cannot be called egoistic, because that would be differentiation. It is only selflessness. It is the perception of the universal, not of the individual. Every case of love and sympathy is an assertion of this universal. “Not I, but thou.” Help another, because you are in him and he is in you, is the philosophical way of putting it. The real Vedantist alone will give up his life for a fellow being without any compunction, because he knows he will not die. As long as there is one insect left in the world, he is living; as long as one mouth eats, he eats. So he goes on doing good to others, and is never hindered by the modern ideas of caring for the body. When a man reaches this point of abnegation, he goes beyond the moral struggle, beyond everything. He sees in the most learned priest, in the cow, in the dog, in the most miserable places, neither the learned man, nor the cow, nor the dog, nor the miserable place, but the same divinity manifesting itself in them all. He alone is the happy man; and the man who has acquired that sameness has, even in this life, conquered all existence. God is pure; therefore such a man is said to be living in God.” ― Swami Vivekananda, The Complete Works Of Swami Vivekananda, Volume 1
- “The more that a person immerses themselves into a body of work that calls upon them to draw their life sustaining sustenance from an internal well of compassion the closer a person comes to developing, maintaining, and displaying the wholesome glow radiating from a peaceful mind.” ― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
- “I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it’s pretty obvious to me that more often than not the batteries fade, and sometimes what you knew even goes out with a bang when you try and call on it, just like a light bulb cracking off when you throw the switch.” ― Lucy Grealy
- “I invite you to embrace a new reality. It is not a matter of religion – it is a matter of fact, a matter of science, a matter of experiment, and a matter of awareness. I invite you to awaken to the infinite life you already have, no matter what your worldview. I invite you to take up responsibility for your own evolutionary destiny. I invite you to take advantage of your priceless human opportunity to make a definitive turn toward ultimate security, complete freedom, and unbounded happiness. (p. 23, The Nature of Reality)” ― Robert A.F. Thurman, Infinite Life
- “Enlightenment is simple peace all the time.” ― Sri Avinash Do
- “Sit with the masters, drink in their baraka, for their mere presence radiates such light that whoever is with them is penetrated by it through and through.” ― Mostafa al-Badawi, Sufi Sage of Arabia: Imam Abdallah ibn Alawi al-Haddad
- “Always try and be a better person than you were yesterday, cause we aren’t guaranteed tomorrow.” ― Tina A. Morgan
- “Everyone has freewill but few know how to use it wisely. And quite often it is not the unknown that people fear, but the known. You may know that to love someone that can’t love back is a risk, and yet, not giving that person the opportunity to hurt you, means avoiding life and running away from yourself. Trust is almost always the only option one has to choose. But being a fool is to remain in a reality that shows itself unworthy to you after accepting it.” ― Dan Desmarques, Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques
- “The eyes of a saint are always concentrated on the Supreme Self. The minute he is aware of himself, sainthood is lost. – Neem Karoli Baba” ― Ram Dass, Miracle of Love: Stories about Neem Karoli Baba
- “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
- “We are searching for the core of our lives; our culture intuits that writing, that ancient activity, might be the pathway…Awakening does not feed ego’s needs and desires; it pulverizes the self. Our society couldn’t knowingly bear such reduction, so we’ve tricked ourselves into the same path but call it writing.” ― Natalie Goldberg
- “Throughout my days on Earth, I have gone by a myriad of names. I seasonally got wind of epithets such as a rootless strider, a hammer lacking a head, a trampled idealist, and in most instances a hopeless dreamer. And yet: One cannot bring a fantasist back to ground by such utterings. Words for him are like indistinct silhouettes above a sea. Seagulls that disappear into a morning fog. They will erode like statues of stone and abate like the men who built them. A dreamer’s hope can only succumb at the dawn of a more brilliant, precious one.” ― Vladimir Hlocky, Journeys Beyond Earth
- “The very way that you think is a crucial component to your overall health and well being. Living towards the negative will only foster conflict and a sense of lack, while living towards the positive will create more opportunity for you to experience harmony and abundance.” ― Gary Hopkins
- “For the deceived mind, an illusion is always meaningful, until the pain of being wrong proves otherwise. And this may take a lifetime, or never come to pass.” ― Dan Desmarques, Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques
- “You don’t need to find an “enlightened one” to tell you what to think – you are an enlightened one. We all are.” ― David Icke, I am me I am free: The Robots’ Guide to Freedom
- “For those who consider life a walk of suffering, living with someone happy is simply depressing.” ― Dan Desmarques, Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques
- “With Master as my Guide, I don’t know my limitations and I blindly practice the Noble Way of Living to surprise myself at each step of the way.. THANKS MASTER” ― Nick Catricala