True teachers of enlightenment are hard to find. The popular ones, of course, usually aren't enlightened because how could they be? They just tell people what they want to hear.
It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself.
Every day is a new opportunity to work with what you have inside toward enlightenment.
What have we to offer the world beside the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment?
Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche. This is the World Power that vastly exceeds all other powers on earth. The Age of Enlightenment, which stripped nature and human institutions of gods, overlooked the God of Terror who dwells in the human soul.
Studying the Buddha way is studying oneself. Studying oneself is forgetting oneself. Forgetting oneself is being enlightened by all things. Being enlightened by all things is to shed the body-mind of oneself, and those of others. No trace of enlightenment remains, and this traceless enlightenment continues endlessly.
The study of enlightenment is really a reorganization of our perceptual body or our perceptual field. We learn to see life more directly and more clearly.
Sex does drain a certain amount of your occult energy. But that really has nothing to do with enlightenment.
What is art is not likely to be decided for decades or longer after the work has been producedand then is often redecidedso we must not think badly if we regard literature as entertainment rather than as transcendent enlightenment.
That the self advances and confirms the ten thousand things is called delusion; that the ten thousand things advance and confirm the self is called enlightenment.
The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting.
When you get a new worldview you get a new world. It's like the shift from medieval Christianity to the Renaissance and enlightenment.
The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.
The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.
Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everythiong else.
These energies when directed towards the subtle physical body cause the subtle physical body to break down, to lose its lumonisity.
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
The process of eliminating the samskaras and reaching complete enlightenment is very technical, wonderful, and mystical process.
Women have been systematically pushed out of spirituality by men.
If you ever reach enlightenment. will you remember how to laugh?