All Quotes By Tag: Enlightenment

“To act upon the outer world and change it, you must be first be fine to act upon yourself.”

“Control is an illusion that you must give up.”

“Forgiveness is a skill gained by those willing to change.”

“It is not so much about fighting against the ego; it is more about harmonizing with it.”

“Find your bones. Believe in what you are.”

“Taking care of yourself will take care of more than yourself.”

“Jealousy, and attempting to match others in life and stride, is self-abandonment.”

“Surrendering is not giving up–it is gaining strength.”

“If you take society’s definition of knowing oneself, you will become lost in the many translations.”

“Your actions show what you know, and your replies to obstacles give clarity into what you will learn.”

“If we have faith that some higher powers, some enlightened beings, are helping us to develop spiritually, then you begin to relate to life completely differently. And I suppose life starts to become a little more magical. Every opportunity must be seen as a chance to learn. We have to be open to whatever happens, good or bad. Because anything that happens is a chance to increase our wisdom, and to walk further down the path to enlightenment. So if you miss the bus, that’s an opportunity to learn. If you become ill, that’s an opportunity to learn something new, like compassion maybe. – 319”

“It is warmer here. Can you see the light? Trust it. It is safe. It has lived a long time. It has seen much more than you. You fight a demon that you once knew but the demon is already slain. And from the corner of your eye you will see the scattered, sacred fire reform again. Settle, settle. Peace, peace”

“You alwaysdrop by, to en-lighten my mind,when my wings arefeeling heavy &i’ve forgottenhow tofly.”

“Eventually, it boils down to two choices – do I wish to experience this physical reality primarily through joy or do I want to experience it through suffering? That’s all there is to it. And since each person eventually works their way toward the realization that conscious expansion can happen through joy rather than suffering – enlightenment is a natural byproduct.”

“Any attempt to engineer or plan your own enlightenment is doomed to failure because it will be ego driven. You will only see what you have already decided to look for, and you cannot see what you are not ready or told to look for. So failure and humiliation force you to look where you never would otherwise. . . . So we must stumble and fall, I’m sorry to say.”