Becoming Enlightened Quotes

• Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead it's about becoming more fully human. . . . It is the end of ignorance.

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  Surya Das

  Ignorance   Enlightenment   Becoming  

  Surya Das, Lama Surya Das (1997). “Awakening the Buddha Within: Eight Steps to Enlightenment : Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World”, Broadway

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• The saying "no self, no problem" probably comes from Zen. In their cultures, where Buddhism is kind of taken for granted, as well as karma, causality, former and future life, and the possibility for becoming enlightened, then it's safe to skirt the danger of nihilism, which would be, I don't exist because Buddha said I have no self, and therefore I have no problem because I don't exist. That would be a bad misunderstanding. But in those cultures, it would not be as easy to have that understanding as it would be here in the west, where we really are nihilistic.

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  Robert Thurman

  Karma   Taken   Buddhism  

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• 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 pretence. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.

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  Adyashanti

  Becoming Better   Enlightenment   Crumbling  

  Adyashanti (2010). “The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment”, p.103, Sounds True

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• Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love - now you are love.

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  Rajneesh

  Inspirational   Life   Spiritual  

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• One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

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  Carl Jung

  Love Life   Suicidal   Knowledge  

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler, Michael Scott Montague Fordham (1973). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Alchemical studies”

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• We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

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  Gautama Buddha

  Positive   Leadership   Uplifting  

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• All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become.

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  Gautama Buddha

  Karma   Buddhist   Attitude  

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• Becoming enlightened is not special, but it's unusual.

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  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher   Special   Becoming  

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• Becoming enlightened doesn't mean everything works your way.

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  Frederick Lenz

  Mean   Enlightenment   Way  

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• Experience life in all possible ways -- good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don't be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.

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  Rajneesh

  Summer   Spiritual   Sweet  

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• Imagine a culture in which everything is geared toward helping all individuals become the best human beings they can be; in which individuals are driven to devoting their lives to becoming enlightened by the natural flood of compassion for others that arises from their wisdom.

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  Robert Thurman

  Wisdom   Buddhism   Compassion  

  Robert Thurman (1999). “Inner Revolution”, p.28, Penguin

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• What you think you become.

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  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational   Motivational   Positive  

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• Figuring out our gifts in life is part of our journey to becoming enlightened human beings.

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  Allison DuBois

  Journey   Becoming   Life Is  

  Allison DuBois (2008). “Don't Kiss Them Goodbye”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

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  Rajneesh

  Inspirational   Being Yourself   Ideas  

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