Explore a collection of the most beloved and motivational quotes and sayings about Enlightenment. Share these powerful messages with your loved ones on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, or on your personal blog, and inspire the world with their wisdom. We've compiled the Top 100 Enlightenment Quotes and Sayings from 53 influential authors, including Adyashanti,Frederick Lenz,Charles Eisenstein,Jed Mckenna,Bryan Kest, for you to enjoy and share.

Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that. By Adyashanti Enlightenment Waking

Enlightenment is the complete awareness of life without mental modifications. By Frederick Lenz Enlightenment Modifications Complete Awareness Life

Don't care what anybody says about enlightenment, except the enlightened and those who seek it. By Frederick Lenz Enlightenment Care Enlightened Seek

There is the experience of enlightenment, to be very aware of what lies beyond the boundaries of cognitive perception, reflection and self-awareness as seen by the personality. By Frederick Lenz Enlightenment Perception Reflection Personality Experience

Enlightenment is a group activity. By Charles Eisenstein Enlightenment Activity Group

Enlightenment isn't when you go there; it's when there comes here. By Jed Mckenna Enlightenment

Enlightenment is higher states of awareness. By Bryan Kest Enlightenment Awareness Higher States

When you have experienced the depth of your inner self, the idea of enlightenment is no longer a goal to strive towards, but rather an attitude to maintain. By Gary Hopkins Maintain Experienced Depth Idea Enlightenment

Enlightenment is the experience of pure light. By Frederick Lenz Enlightenment Light Experience Pure

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. By Frederick Lenz Perceptual Field Study Enlightenment Reorganization

We have to leave everything we have been, a perceiver, "I" as an individual. That is enlightenment. By Frederick Lenz Perceiver Individual Leave Enlightenment

Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable. By Anthony De Mello Enlightenment Absolute Inevitable Cooperation

As for enlightenment, that's just for people who can't face reality. By Brad Warner Enlightenment Reality People Face

Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground. By D.t. Suzuki Enlightenment Ground Everyday Consciousness Inches

Enlightenment is choice. By Ilchi Lee Enlightenment Choice

What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this wordthe pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man rub his eyes in his waking dream, and put two and two together. Enlightenment is cold water. By George Santayana Experience Troubles Making Dream Enlightenment

Enlightenment is any experience of expanding our consciousness beyond its present limits. By Thaddeus Golas Enlightenment Limits Experience Expanding Consciousness

The miracle of enlightenment is that you take the self and let it dissolve in the white light of eternity. By Frederick Lenz Eternity Miracle Enlightenment Dissolve White

The pathway to enlightenment is joyful. It may sound harsh. I suggest just the opposite. It is rather easy compared to the possibilities of staying in pain and illusion. By Frederick Lenz Joyful Pathway Enlightenment Harsh Opposite

As a student of enlightenment your attitude should not be to become enlightened. It should be to learn. By Frederick Lenz Enlightened Student Enlightenment Attitude Learn

Enlightenment is the realization of the oneness of being, where otherness disappears. By Sharon Gannon Enlightenment Disappears Realization Oneness Otherness

Enlightenment happens only in that moment when there is no complaint in you,when you are not going anywhere, not desiring, not condemning, not judging.You simply exist and with total acceptance. This moment there is enlightenment. By Rajneesh Desiring Condemning Acceptance Enlightenment Moment

Enlightenment is just another word for feeling comfortable with being a completely ordinary person. By Veronique Vienne Enlightenment Person Word Feeling Comfortable

Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness By Adyashanti Enlightenment Consciousness Unaltered State

The pathway to enlightenment is beautiful. There are a lot of wonderful things that happen along the way. Win or lose, you just keep going, and it happens eventually. By Frederick Lenz Beautiful Pathway Enlightenment Win Lose

Enlightenment is the ability to comprehend ourselves, it is the power to peer into our hearts and minds and reach that state of spiritual bliss, which may or may not lead us to salvation. By Balroop Singh Enlightenment Bliss Salvation Ability Comprehend

Enlightenment is nothing more than the complete absence of resistance to what is. End of story. By Adyashanti Enlightenment Complete Absence Resistance End

It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life. By Adyashanti Reality Greater Enlightenment Life Pursuit

Enlightenment is the inner light of wisdom that is permanently free from all mistaken appearance, and whose function is to bestow mental peace upon each and every living being every day. By Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Enlightenment Appearance Day Light Wisdom

The misconception about enlightenment stems from, or is at least compounded by, the fact that most of the world's recognized experts on the subject of enlightenment are not enlightened. Some are great mystics, some are great scholars, some are both, and most are neither, but very few are awake. This core misconception will be a big theme in this book because it's the primary obstacle in the quest for enlightenment. Nobody's getting there because nobody knows where there is, and those who are entrusted to point the way are, for a variety of reasons, pointing the wrong way. At the very heart of this confusion lies the belief that abiding non-dual awareness - enlightenment - and the non-abiding experience of cosmic consciousness - mystic union - are synonymous when, in fact, they're completely unrelated. By Jed Mckenna Enlightenment Enlightened Great Misconception Stems

Enlightenment is intimacy with all things. By Dogen Enlightenment Things Intimacy

If you want to know the taste of an orange, you have to taste it; no amount of description can exactly convey its taste to you. Similarly, you cannot properly explain enlightenment to someone who has not experienced it. By Joseph P. Kauffman Taste Orange Amount Description Convey

Enlightenment is "being," and it grows; it's end is serenity. By William Gibson Enlightenment Grows Serenity End

If you want to experience enlightenment, take a deep breath in and relax. As you are releasing the air forget, for a moment, about all your worries and desires. Just appreciate yourself the way you are in the very moment. Then, just lighten up. Keep doing it as often as you want to experience enlightenment. That is it. By Raphael Zernoff Relax Enlightenment Moment Experience Deep

Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment. Move the ego aside and be still, open, clear, bright and fully conscious. By Frederick Lenz Meditation Enlightenment Open Clear Pathway

Enlightenment after all is to overcome delusion, by way of sensitizing practitioners to complexities and problems of the human situation. By Kim Hee-Jin Enlightenment Delusion Situation Overcome Sensitizing

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life. By William Blake Enlightenment Life Taking Full Responsibility

Enlightenment gives profound joy of the heart and a great love for the fellow beings. By Amit Ray Enlightenment Profound Joy Heart Great

Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that. By Joko Beck Enlightenment Achieve Pursuing Goal Absence

Enlightenment is eliminating mental confusion, eliminating hatred, jealousy, mental toxins, cravings. That's very simple and straightforward. Whether you can do it or not is another matter. By Matthieu Ricard Jealousy Cravings Eliminating Mental Enlightenment

When we wake up from our confused state of mind, that is enlightenment. By Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Mind Enlightenment Wake Confused State

You are going around on the wheel again and again. You go around and around from lifetime to lifetime. You never quite wake up. Enlightenment is waking up. By Frederick Lenz Wheel Lifetime Enlightenment Wake Waking

The more we try and understand enlightenment the more it will elude us. And that's because enlightenment does not come from the mind. It comes form 'no-mind.' It comes form just being. You are already enlightened. You just have to realize it to allow it into your experience. By Anita Moorjani Enlightenment Understand Elude Form Mind

It is not after we understand the truth that we attain enlightenment. To realize the truth is to live - to exist here and now. By Shunryu Suzuki Enlightenment Truth Understand Attain Live

Enlightenment simply means that you've run out of questions, and that the answers don't matter anymore. By Frederick Lenz Enlightenment Questions Anymore Simply Run

Enlightenment is the transforming process that makes one kind, happy, and compassionate to the world. Enlightenment is bringing greatness in our ordinary life. Enlightenment is bringing beauty in our words, actions, breath and thoughts. Enlightenment is unfolding our true divinity. Enlightenment is bringing sweetness in our relationships. Enlightenment is making friendship with the whole existence. Enlightenment is making the whole existence as the center of our heart. By Amit Ray Enlightenment Bringing Happy Kind World

The path to enlightenment is when you allow presence, love and gratitude to overlap your ego. By Matthew Donnelly Presence Love Ego Path Enlightenment

Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being. By Adyashanti Enlightenment End Natural State

There are two obstacles to enlightenment: 1. Thinking you know. 2 Thinking you don't know. By Gautama Buddha Thinking Enlightenment Obstacles

I'm sorry. This is diary, not enlightenment. By Maryse Holder Diary Enlightenment

We can't say what enlightenment is, we can't say what it isn't, because these are words and words have nothing to do with reality. By Frederick Lenz Reality Words Enlightenment

Education is the greatest gift to enlightenment. By Lailah Gifty Akita Education Enlightenment Greatest Gift

So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger. One day you may catch yourself smiling at the voice in your head, as you would smile at the antics of a child. This means that you no longer take the content of your mind all that seriously, as your sense of self does not depend on it. By Eckhart Tolle Mind Learn Single Vital Step

Enlightenment does not mean that your ego is suppressed or denied. It does mean that it is deconstructed, seen through, exposed, and then reeducated and reconstructed. By Jun Po Roshi Enlightenment Denied Exposed Ego Suppressed

Enlightenment isn't a vast field of open opportunities that will change your life, actually it is but first it will destruct anything in its path unattached to the version of you that is awake. That's the part no one prepares for, it will break you to the core but the break will make you something greater then you ever thought imagineable. By Nikki Rowe Enlightenment Life Awake Vast Field

If there isn't an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment. By Eckhart Tolle Joy Complete Enlightenment Emanation Love

Enlightenment means choosing to dwell in a state of presence rather than in time. It means saying yes to what is. By Eckhart Tolle Enlightenment Time Choosing Dwell State

Enlightenment is a perfect state of mind. It is the direct seeing of reality. The world most people see, which they call life, is really just a dream. By Frederick Lenz Enlightenment Mind Perfect State Reality

Enlightenment is at the source of everything. From it, flows our Intuition and our creative energy. It is the delta of the human spirit ~ what we innately seek to return to, as we find ourselves lost in this world. By Kim Chestney Enlightenment Source Intuition Flows Energy

The essence of enlightenment ... is a big understanding, which gives you a deep and wide perspective to see the world as a whole, and a capacity to accept with compassion all that is. 11/26 By Ilchi Lee Enlightenment Understanding Essence Big Deep

Enlightenment doesn't mean you know anything. It doesn't mean you don't know anything. It means that you've returned to the source, consciously. By Frederick Lenz Enlightenment Consciously Source Returned

Enlightenment is getting off the wheel. Enlightenment is to become pure awareness. By Frederick Lenz Enlightenment Wheel Awareness Pure

Enlightenment is the culmination of self-knowledge, pure unadulterated knowledge. Not knowledge you can get from reading a book, it comes from perfecting your awareness, your mind. By Frederick Lenz Enlightenment Selfknowledge Pure Knowledge Culmination

Your imagination is the vehicle to enlightenment. By Gary Hopkins Enlightenment Imagination Vehicle

Enlightenment occurs when your mind merges with nirvana, with what Tibetans call the Dharmakaya, the clear light of reality, which is the highest plane of transcendental wisdom and perfect understanding. By Frederick Lenz Dharmakaya Tibetans Enlightenment Nirvana Reality

Enlightenment is cumulative. You become a little more enlightened each day as you practice yoga and Buddhism. By Frederick Lenz Enlightenment Cumulative Buddhism Enlightened Day

Knowledge of the Enlightenment Cycle, of the ways that inner dimensions and nirvana work, lifts you far above the transient sorrows, pains, pleasures and joys that the unenlightened masses experience. By Frederick Lenz Cycle Pains Enlightenment Knowledge Work

Forget about enlightenment.Sit down wherever you are And listen to the wind singing in your veins.Feel the love, the longing, and the fear in your bones.Open your heart to who you are, right now,Not who you would like to be.Not the saint you're striving to become.But the being right here before you, inside you, around you.All of you is holy.You're already more and less Than whatever you can know.Breathe out, touch in, let go. By John Welwood Forget Love Longing Inside Touch

The day-to-day life we lead has nothing to do with enlightenment. It is just around the corner, and we don't see it. By Frederick Lenz Life Enlightenment Lead Corner

Enlightenment is not only the end of suffering and of continuous conflict within and without, but also the end of the dreadful enslavement to incessant thinking. What an incredible liberation this is! By Eckhart Tolle End Enlightenment Thinking Suffering Continuous

To me, enlightenment is a big shift inside your eyes, a different way to use your mind so you can understand some of God, some of Jesus. But it is maybe not one shift, but many small shifts. You change your spiritual condition - by prayer, by meditation, by the way you live, the way you decide to think, by the lessons you learn in living this life with a good intention - and then, when this happens, after a long times or a short times, the way you see the world changes. By Roland Merullo God Jesus Enlightenment Eyes Shift

Enlightenment is nothing but your consciousness being concentrated on a single point - now and here. By Rajneesh Enlightenment Point Consciousness Concentrated Single

You think you want to know the secrets of the universe. You think you want to see the way things all fit together. You believe in your heart of hearts that enlightenment will save the world and set you free. Maybe it will. But the path to enlightenment is rarely a pleasant one. By Neal Shusterman Universe Secrets Enlightenment Things Fit

The path to enlightenment is really very simple - all we need to do is stop cherishing ourself and learn to cherish others. All other spiritual realisations will naturally follow from this. By Kelsang Gyatso Simple Path Enlightenment Stop Cherishing

The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being. By Eckhart Tolle Accomplishment Word Enlightenment Conjures Idea

Enlightenment means rising above thought, not falling back to a level below thought, the level of an animal or a plant. By Eckhart Tolle Thought Enlightenment Plant Level Rising

Enlightenment means having no human mind, no limitations. Your awareness is eternity, timeless, infinite, beyond boundaries, and yet it exists within all things. By Frederick Lenz Enlightenment Mind Limitations Timeless Infinite

Enlightenment is your ego's greatest disappointment. By Wayne Dyer Enlightenment Disappointment Ego Greatest

Enlightenment just means that you don't have a structural self. It means you've flipped through the gradated realities. Nothing binds, nothing clings to you. You're unaffected by everything. By Frederick Lenz Enlightenment Structural Realities Flipped Gradated

If you strip it of all the complex terminology and all the complex jargon, enlightenment is simply returning to our natural state of being. A natural state, of course, means a state which is not contrived, a state that requires no effort or discipline to maintain, a state of being which is not enhanced by any sort of manipulation of mind or body - in other words, a state that is completely natural, completely spontaneous. By Adyashanti State Complex Natural Jargon Enlightenment

The pursuit of enlightenment is for the purpose of the world, not merely for the purpose of the individual. Practices for enlightenment must lead to action in the world. By Bernie Glassman Purpose World Individual Enlightenment Pursuit

When we recognize that the seemingly object nature of reality is nothing different than the subject nature of mind, which is rigpa, it is called enlightenment. By Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Nature Mind Rigpa Enlightenment Recognize

I think enlightenment is something that you decide to do after you have met someone who is enlightened. Something touches your heart, your being at a very deep level. By Frederick Lenz Enlightened Enlightenment Decide Met Heart

When there is no thought in the mind, no thought of thought, when the mind is quiet but fully alert, we experience a little bit of enlightenment. By Frederick Lenz Thought Mind Alert Enlightenment Quiet

Enlightenment is being able to go to your own home and feel comfortable. By Jennifer James Enlightenment Comfortable Home Feel

The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened. By Ramana Maharshi Enlightened Greatest Obstacle Enlightenment Past

Enlightenment is to be outside the circle, the circle of death and rebirth. There is a circle inside you. If you meditate and focus on your third eye, you will see a circle of light. By Frederick Lenz Circle Enlightenment Rebirth Death Inside

Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment. By Patrick Rothfuss Knowing Enlightenment Ignorance Step

Enlightenment means that you've become a sophisticated perceiver, without letting anyone know that you're sophisticated. By Frederick Lenz Enlightenment Perceiver Sophisticated Letting

When I was working at Omega, I took this Zen retreat, where you're quiet, you don't say anything for a week, and this guy there said, "You're going to be enlightened at the end of this week, that's my goal." I was the engineer, so I was recording everything at it was happening, but I was also participating, because I felt like it. So at the end of it, I did understand what enlightenment was, one-hundred percent. By Larkin Grimm Week Omega Zen End Retreat

Enlightenment doesn't make us a better person if we seek it just for us. It doesn't erase our desires or put an end to even our own suffering. In fact it is the suffering that ennobles us. By Balroop Singh Enlightenment Make Person Seek Suffering

The instant you take the lead in the tug-of-war with your ego, enlightenment becomes your state of being. By Pooja Ruprell Ego Enlightenment Instant Lead State

Man beset by anarchy, banditry, chaos and extinction must at last resort turn to that chamber of horrors, human enlightenment. For he has nowhere else to turn. By Robert Ardrey Banditry Man Anarchy Chaos Horrors

There is no way to explain enlightenment. It is just a word to indicate something beyond, something very, very far beyond the normal human condition. By Frederick Lenz Enlightenment Explain Condition Word Normal

Enlightenment is a state of wholeness, of being "at one" and therefore at peace. By Eckhart Tolle Enlightenment Wholeness Peace State

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness. By Nikos Kazantzakis Darkness Real Meaning Enlightenment Gaze

Enlightenment doesn't disconnect you from the world, rather it gives you a deep understanding of it. By Jiulio Consiglio Enlightenment World Disconnect Deep Understanding

Enlightenment comes to even the dimmest. It begins around the eyes, and it spreads outward from there- a sight that might tempt one to lie down under the harrow oneself. By Franz Kafka Enlightenment Dimmest Eyes Oneself Begins

Enlightenment is just the beginning, later on come other skills ... patience, a forgiving nature, extreme attention ... By E. J. Gold Patience Enlightenment Beginning Skills Nature

Enlightenment is not a complete remedy. By Shunryu Suzuki Enlightenment Remedy Complete