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Silver Lining Of Your Cloud
Life Quotes and Sayings
Enlightenment
Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.
~Adyashanti
Spiritual realization is to see clearly that what I perceive, experience, think,
or feel is ultimately not who I am, that I cannot find myself in all those things
that continually pass away. ~Eckhart Tolle
When you awaken, you realize that the separate person you took yourself to
be is just a contract, a mental fabrication. ~Stephan Bodian
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
Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something.
All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some
goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that. ~Charlotte Joko Beck
Spiritual awakening is about waking up from your ego. It is not about
awakening the ego. ~Sampo Kaasila
The most important element of self realization is the dissolution of the notion
of me and all else that’s not me. ~Robert Wolfe
That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion.
That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is
awakening.
~Dogen Zenji
To be enlightened is to be intimate with all things. ~Dogen
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens
in man. ~Ibn al-’Arabi
To get rid of your passions is not Nirvana; to look upon them as no matter of
yours, that is nirvana. ~unknown
To see things for what they are is to see with the eyes of the vastness itself.
~Suzanne Segal
Enlightenment is finding that there is nothing to find. Enlightenment is to
come to know that there is nowhere to go. ~Osho
I acquired nothing at all from supreme enlightenment, and for that very
reason it is called supreme enlightenment. ~Buddha
Enlightenment cannot be attained nor forced. It can only happen.
~Nisargadatta Maharaj
He is enlightened, liberated
who sees all things are One—
Unseparated.
~Angelus Silesius
True enlightenment is nothing but the nature of one’s own self being fully
realized. ~14th Dalai Lama
Enlightenment is the direct result of freedom from the illusion of a separate
self. A profound understanding of this ultimate simplicity provides all that is
required for an awakening to enlightenment. ~Gary Crowley
All beings are inherently enlightened, but because of their attachments and
distorted views, they can’t realize this fact. ~Shakyamuni Buddha
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and
staggering, by instantaneous illuminations. Most of them conquer it fragment
by fragment on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a
laborious mosaic. ~Anais Nin
There is no enlightenment outside of daily life. ~Thich Nhat Hanh
If you are enlightened, you are not free as some people say, but you are
freedom itself. Not like bird in the sky, but like the sky itself. ~Walter A.
Keers
Spiritual attainment is making the Spirit alive, becoming conscious. ~Hazrat
Inayat Khan
No one is enlightened. Any experience of understanding happens to a me, and
no me can ever be enlightened. All experiences are in phenomenality.
~Wayne Liquorman
Perfect awakening is possible here and now for every human being regardless
of background, practice or personal circumstances. You are already free! ~Sri
Poonjaji
Only the action of non- action, the practice of non-practice, unmotivated non-
volitional functioning, can lead to that recognition or awakening and why any
kind of action, practice or intentional procedure is an insurmountable barrier
to such awakening. ~Wei Wu Wei
In the gradual approach you are bound to the mind. The mind is under the
illusion that if it changes, alters, stops, etc., it will be absorbed in what is
beyond it. This misconception leads to the most tragic state in which a truth-
seeker can find himself: he has bound himself in his own web, a web of the
most subtle duality. ~Jean Klein
The awakening process, once begun, develops its own momentum without
effort on your part, and the truth naturally yearns to awaken itself through
you. ~Stephan Bodian
In the simple, direct experience of what is, you have an ongoing opportunity
to awaken out of the trance the mind perpetuates to the radiant fullness and
completeness of being. Just keep letting go and surrendering to what is.
~Stephan Bodian
‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold it with effort is inquiry. When
spontaneous and natural, it’s realization. ~Ramana Maharshi
Realization is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought,
‘I have not realized.’ ~Ramana Maharshi
The path of the enlightened leaves no track–it is like the path of birds in the
sky. ~Buddha
When you demand nothing of the world, nor of god, when you want nothing,
seek nothing, expect nothing, then the Supreme state will come to you
uninvited and unexpected. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj
Full awakening comes when you sincerely look at yourself, deeper than
you’ve imagined, and question everything. ~Adyashanti
When you know yourself, your “I-ness” vanishes and you know that you and
God are one and the same. ~Ibn ‘Arabi
When the secret opens to you, you will know that you are none other than
He. ~Ibn ‘Arabi
Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.
~Adyashanti
The wisdom of enlightenment Is inherent in every one of us. It is because of
the delusion under which our mind works that we fail to realize it ourselves,
and that we Have to seek the advice and the guidance of enlightened ones.
~Hui-neng
Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do,
and nobody you have to be except exactly who you’re being right now.
~Neale Donald Walsch
Who you imagine yourself to be is annihilated by the revelation of freedom.
You, as you have known yourself to be, are no more. You, as you have
imagined yourself to be, are revealed to be nonexistent. There remains only
the unimaginable truth of who you are. ~Gangaji
When someone becomes enlightened something blooms in his heart; it’s like
a flower blooms and it cannot hold the fragrance. ~Metteyya Sakyaputta
The challenge of enlightenment is not simply to glimpse the awakened
condition, nor even to continually experience it, but to be and express it as
yourself in the way you move in this world. In order to do this, you must
come out of hiding behind any superstitious beliefs and find the courage to
question everything. ~Adyashanti
Enlightenment can be measured by how compassionately and wisely you
interact with others—with all others, not just those who support you in the
way that you want. How you interact with those who do not support you
shows how enlightened you really are. ~Adyashanti
If you touch the phenomenal realm deeply, you touch the ultimate realm
which is the realm of no birth and no death. The ultimate is nirvana, it is God,
and it is available to us twenty four hours a day. ~Thich Nhat Hanh
Enlightenment is the Journey from the head back to the heart, from words
back to silence. ~Jock Brocas
Essentially the realization of enlightenment brings with it the sudden
comprehension that there is no one and nothing to be enlightened.
Enlightenment simply is. It cannot be owned, just as it cannot be achieved or
won like some trophy. All and everything is oneness, and all that we do gets
in its way by trying to find it. ~Tony Parsons
To have the eyes of enlightenment is to see the thread of divinity throughout
all of the diversity, to see the sameness within all of the uniqueness.
~Adyashanti