Enlightened Quotes

“After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.”
― Richard Dawkins

“There is strong shadow where there is much light.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Götz von Berlichingen

“My spirit is healthy, yes. But I tell you, my flesh is healthy too. I am enlightened and free, but I am also lustful and carnal.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Kindness is a magical spell—performed by enlightened beings—meant to enchant hearts and lift weary souls that they might fly.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“People often associate complexity with deeper meaning, when often after precious time has been lost, it is realized that simplicity is the key to everything.”
― Gary Hopkins

“Human is a suffered mind but an enlightened soul.”
― Santosh Kalwar

“The strong overcome their opponents, the mighty crush them, the shrewd outwit them, the cowardly hide from them, but the enlightened transcend them.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“We can only be enlightened to the meaning of wise words
only and only if life have put and made us requiring them.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“My home is designed in silence & peace.
What other decorations should I seek?

In this journey of nowhere, but within
Those will taste bliss who are meek.

Beyond that where I do not exist
I shall reach without me.

The separated part will finally merge
in the eventual embrace of Thee.”
― Rabb Jyot

“Alignment is a vibration, a movement of energy that feels at once grounded, centered, and enlightened and propels you gracefully forward toward what feels good and meant for you.”
― Kris Franken, The Call of Intuition: How to Recognize & Honor Your Intuition, Instinct & Insight

“Bumps in the road help in awakening the bird sleeping inside the car.”
― Shunya

“Real healing begins in life, and real awakening starts to happen when we stop living through emotion and start living through love.”
― Sonia Choquette, The Psychic Pathway: A Workbook for Reawakening the Voice of Your Soul

“Defying evidence and blabbering mystical mumbo-jumbo don't make a person a sage or a monk, what does is a person's practical understanding of the world we live in, accompanied by a burning urge to bring that understanding into practice to lift humanity from the darkest pit of degradation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Monk Meets World

“Whenever bigotry and sectarianism overshadow human conscience, I will rise in one neuron cluster or another.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Jesus died about two thousand years ago - Buddha died about five hundred years before that - and so will I. But our ideas of liberty, conscience and character will never perish from the face of this earth, so long as there is even one human being awake enough to see the society as their own family.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Every Generation Needs Caretakers: The Gospel of Patriotism

“We would like you to reach the place where you’re not willing to listen to people criticize one another;
Where you take no satisfaction from somebody being wrong;
Where it matters to you so much that you feel good, that you are only willing to think positive things about people.
You are only willing to look for positive aspects;
You are only willing to look for solutions;
And you are not willing to beat the drum of all of the problems of the world.”
― Abraham Hicks

“Enlightened faith destroys any error.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The path of enlightenment will remain closed forever to those who refuse to give up their ego!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The student asked: Master, do you know of a desert island, I want to go there to get enlightened! The master replied: Instead of going to a desert island, bring the desert island to your mind! The key to enlightenment is neither the place you are in nor other people, but only your own mind!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“When the heart is enlightened, there is endless hope.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The student asked: Master, I have read many books written by enlightened people, but I am still not enlightened! Why so? The master replied: I think those you read were not the books of enlightened people, but of people who thought they were enlightened!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“An awaken and enlightened mind is several miles ahead of everybody, always accused of daydreaming, hallucinating, and being lost in fantasy. Remember, it is okay to be different, non-conformed, and unaligned; these are those who bring transformation to society.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“Disciple: Master, I'm tired now, I've given up enlightenment, I've failed, I'm leaving the temple and going my own way, I'm going on my own long journey, please don't be mad at me! Master: This is how enlightenment begins! When you start to go your own way by leaving the path given to you and to progress and develop under the guidance of your own mind, enlightenment has also started, I am not angry with you, quite the opposite!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“I glance at each suspected figure on social media as my approach; however, I adopt my direction to inspire those who want to become enlightened.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“God has shown me how to use every single thing in my life which could be perceived as negative, for positive. It has been magical, enlightening, and delightful.”
― Niedria Kenny

“That is what enlightenment is all about. It never happens gradually. Just like love, it takes you by surprise. If you want to understand, you’ll need to give up the futility of that infinite bug-walk, to dare fall off the cliff into the abyss, to be ready to either perish or ascend to something radically new. You know very well that many before you have tried and failed, but although the hollow pillars of all the monasteries, ashrams, and tekkes of this world conceal the whispers of those who have fallen and crashed, you choose to listen only to the prayers, hymns and chants of those who have succeeded to elevate above this finite world of infinite struggle.”
― Lidija Stankovikj, Alexander's Infinity

“I get visions of words,
But it ain't nothing supernatural.
It's just a natural expression,
of divergently wired circuits neural.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“What I find hilarious is that these people looking for ego death, who want to become so enlightened are usually those with the most enormous egos. The huge egos seeking the egolessness, in order to show off how enlightened they are, all they want is to post on social media or write books about their journey. They actually want to find in it a way to seem selfless while still getting some selfish pleasure out of it. And then they have the guts to lecture you on selflessness!”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“Disciple: Master, I am trying hard, but what will I do if I cannot achieve enlightenment? Master: This universe is full of surprises, if you cannot reach enlightenment, maybe enlightenment will reach you! The hand can reach out to the hand that reaches out!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Buddhas, Christs and Mevlanas don't live in caves, they walk amongst you. You know why? Because we cannot change the world from the sidelines. You may play the make believe of nonattachment all you want - and it may bring you personal comfort for the time being, but it doesn't alleviate human suffering from the world one bit.

The enlightenment bit is a small part of the equation. How you live afterwards determines the true worth of that enlightenment. If your idea of enlightenment revolves around some prehistoric routine of sitting and chanting, or crouching and praying, then such enlightenment is no enlightenment, but derangement.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One