Enlightenment isn’t when you go there; it’s when there comes here.

A purpose derived from a false premise – that a deity has ordained submission to his will – cannot merit respect. The pursuit of Enlightenment-era goals — solving our world’s problems through rational discourse, rather...

Enlightenment is not a goal to be attained, it is a state-of-being to be regained.

If I could repeat it,people passing by would be enlightened and go free.

The deepest realization of meditation is that your being is a non-being. It is a nothing, a vast emptiness without boundaries. It is a no-self. The feeling of self, of “I” is false.

There are only two profound ways to reach enlightenment: Laugh by yourself, or get tickled.

When you are a young person, you are like a young creek, and you meet many rocks, many obstacles and difficulties on your way. You hurry to get past these obstacles and get to the...

An individual’s perception is their reality colored in the shades they desire–not necessarily the color that it is.

Satisfaction doesn’t come from needs and desires or fulfilling them, it comes from being yourself, being true.

Darwin caused controversy, not merely because his ideas contradicted Genesis, but because they fell foul of the way in which Genesis had been read by those influenced by the Enlightenment, for it was the Enlightenment...

Life sucks. Enlightenment is getting over it.

We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to...

What is constant? Is the mind anything more than a conglomeration of thoughts? Where is the mind apart from thought? If there is no thought, can there be a mind? They cancel each other out,...

Do not allow consumerism to dictate your spiritual practice. You need nothing more than your focused attention to gain enlightenment.

Things do not happen to us… They happen because of us

It is significant comment on the victory of science over magic that were someone to say ‘if I put this pill in your beer it will explode,’ we might believe them; but were they to...

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have no...

All’s, quintessentially, you.

Sometimes enlightenment descends upon you when you least expect it…

Without hope, Chöd practitioners are freed from the limits of hope and fear; having cut the ropes of grasping, definitely enlightened, where does one go?

I met with a man. His name is, “Michael Bush”, a very sophisticated sage. He said to me, “Michael, don’t associate yourself with people in your age bracket, but relate with elderly men, who had...

It is the task of the enlightened not only to ascend to learning and to see the good but to be willing to descend again to those prisoners and to share their troubles and their...

Love, not balance, brings enlightenment

When I did a therapist education in USA 1984, one of the course leaders – who had given personal and spiritual guidance to thousands of seekers of truth from all over the world, and who...

Nobody ever gets to nirvana without going through samsara. Nobody ever gets to heaven, without going through hell. The center of all things, the truth, is surrounded by demons.

You know you are truly alive, when you care for every living thing. One day soon, it will be the norm to view others not as competition, but gifts to share this gorgeous planet with,...

Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.

Trust what is not known to your Mind. Trust what is known to your Heart.

I wish you allan ego freedriven day!

While pensive poets painful vigils keep,Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

If there is a dark and hostile power, laying its treacherous toils within us, by which it holds us fast and draws us along the path of peril and destruction, which we should not otherwise...

Whatever experiences we may come across in our spiritual journey we are not any of those experiences but rather the one who is witnessing them, the pure awareness cognizing them without thought.

When you have experienced the depth of your inner self, the idea of enlightenment is no longer a goal to strive towards, but rather an attitude to maintain.

Enlightenment begins by getting acquainted with your inner voice or your higher self. The dialogue experienced in this process leads to a more comfortable, better-focused lifestyle. Over time this relationship blossoms into a higher and...

If you don’t know yourself, you may easily blow away opportunities meant for your success! Know who you are made of and save your dreams from premature death!

It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. …We are not...

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.

We don’t look at the sky anymore, instead we stare at boxes that keeps us captive; we don’t walk barefoot any more, we refuse to kiss the earth with our feet, we keep busy worrying...

From a mind filled with infinite love comes the power to create infinite possibilities. We have the power to think in ways that reflect and attract all the love in the world. Such thinking is...

The sea is only the embodiment of asupernatural and wonderful existence.It is nothing but love and emotion;it is the ‘Living Infinite…

There is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous [founding nations upon superstition]; yet nothing can be inferred from it more than this, that the multitude have always been credulous, and the few artful....

The face of everyone in mine,the oneness with every blade of grass,the flight with the flocks in the sky, the dance with the clouds across endless skies.The strength with every tree,rooting deep into mother earth,springing...

The man who has forgotten self may be said to have entered Heaven.

Life gives you exactly what you need to awaken.

Sometimes in the quest for enlightenment the only thing that gets lighter is your wallet.

There is nothing we could add to that which has already been created….perfection.

He suddenly understood the message of so many spiritual teachers that the only revolution that can work is the inner transformation of every human being.

The secret of enlightenment is the absolute, unequivocal conviction that it exists.What does that mean? It means you have discovered an unshakable confidence in the fact of nonduality—in the perennial mystical revelation that IT IS ....

Actions do speak louder than voice,but there is nothing strongest of all than productive results alone.

The difference between the “natural” individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one which is consciously realized, is tremendous. In the first case consciousness nowhere intervenes; the end remains as dark as the...