“I think you’re all enlightened, until you open your mouths.”
~ Shunryu Suzuki

“Our self – luminous, open, empty Awareness – cannot be enlightened. It is already the light that illuminates all experience. Nor can a separate self be enlightened, for when the separate self faces the light of Awareness, it vanishes, just as a shadow does when exposed to the sun.
To be enlightened means to know oneself as Awareness and to know that this Awareness is ever-present and without limit or location.”
~ Rupert Spira

“Being enlightened ironically means realizing that there is no separate entity that can be enlightened or unenlightened.
Looking forward to what you think enlightenment might be at some grand point in the future keeps you from seeing the truth of its presence right now.
We are all born to fly. Instead, we sit on the branches afraid of the leap into the unknown. But the unknown is where enlightenment lives.”
~ Enza Vita

“Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are: pure being.
Spiritual awakening is a remembering. It is not about transforming ourselves. It is not about changing ourselves. It is a remembering of what we are. At the moment of this remembering, if it is authentic, it’s not viewed as a personal thing. There is really no such thing as a “personal” awakening, because “personal” would imply separation. “Personal” would imply that it is the “me” or the ego that awakens or becomes enlightened. But in a true awakening, it is universal spirit or universal consciousness that wakes up to itself. Rather than the “me” waking up, what we are wakes up from the “me”.
Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the ●natural state of consciousness.”
~ Adyashanti

“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.”
~ Eckhart Tolle

“Anybody who tells you that he has some way of leading you to spiritual enlightenment is like somebody who picks your pocket and sells you your own watch.”
~ Alan Watts

“What did you think about this morning as soon as you opened your eyes? Were you worried about breakfast? Were you concerned with getting too fat or too thin? Were you concerned over your hair or over another person? Were you thinking about your neighbors trying to hurt you? Or someone cheated you? Or somebody stole something from you ten years ago, you can’t get it out of your mind? What do you think about all day long? ●This is what keeps you from enlightenment.”
~ Robert Adams

“The difference between knowledge and enlightenment is that in the ●former a contrast exists between the knower and the known, whereas in the latter there is no such contrast.”
~ Bruce Lee

“Look where there is ●no difference between the known and the knower, where there is no difference between Self and other, where all differences have ceased to exist. Here you will find enlightenment.”
~ Wu Hsin

“The enlightened being ●sees everything in the world as his own Self.”
~ Shankara

“Enlightenment is ●intimacy with all things.”
~ Dogen Zenji

“Enlightenment is the destruction of the sense of duality, which is a barrier to true love. ●Once individuality is surrendered, there is only total love.”
~ Ramesh Balsekar

“There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment.”
~ Sadhguru

“Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.”
~ Nikola Tesla