Enlightenment Quotes
- And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment. ~ Bodhidharma
- By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. ~ E. O. Wilson
- Do not pray by heart, but with the heart.~ Author Unknown
- Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.~ Dogen
- Enlightenment must come little by little, otherwise it would overwhelm. ~ Idries Shah
- Follow your own way of speaking to our Lord sincerely, lovingly, confidently, and simply, as your heart dictates. ~ Jane Frances De Chantal
- Good humor and enthusiasm should be the sunshine ahead that will keep that shadow behind. ~ Charles Field
- Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all. ~ Benjamin Franklin
- Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. ~ Emily P. Bissell
- Help me to live time, not just to use it; to breathe it in, and return it in acts of love and presence. ~ Author Unknown
- He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- Hold fast that which is good. ~ The Holy Bible
- How monotonous the sounds of the forest would be if the music came only from the Top Ten birds. ~ Dan Bennett
- I’d been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta. ~ Lorene Cary
- If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is “the quiet acceptance of what is.” ~ Wayne Dyer
- Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.~ Lao Tzu
- Logic is the key to an all-inclusive spiritual well-being. ~ Marlene Dietrich
- Not creating delusions is enlightenment.~ Bodhidharma
- Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution.~ John Boehner
- Prayer opens our eyes that we may see ourselves and others as God sees us. ~ Clara Palmer
- The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis
- There is only one way to end a self-pity cycle: stop comparing yourself to others, and simply follow Christ. ~ Linda Harry
- Without the incense of heartfelt prayer, even the greatest of cathedrals is dead. ~ Author Unknown
- Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment. ~ Dogen Zenji
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