William Gibson Quotes

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

Enlightenment is lightening up.

When you are in deep meditation you don't feel meditation, you feel bliss. When you are deep in meditation, when you are deep in awareness, you don't feel awareness, you feel bliss. When you begin to feel bliss, that means now you have begun to be aware. Awareness creates the situation in which bliss is felt.

I'm no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment.

The Buddha is in me, the Buddha is in you. Live up to it.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

I'm not speaking as someone who has reached satori or anything else. I'm a student.

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way.

By 1968, both The Beatles and The Beach Boys had plenty of fame - we were looking for something deeper. The Maharishi taught us how to go beyond thinking and action in order to grow from within.

I just want to find some inner peace, and I think I'm getting there, slowly but surely.

All of us, at different times of life, are looking for answers. It happened to me a decade ago and led me to the path of wanting to know more. I read Osho, Sadhguru, Deepak Chopra, and Parmananda Yogi. I haven't found the ultimate answer. The journey is the answer.

Enlightenment is awakened awareness.

When you find your place where you are, practice occurs, actualizing the fundamental point.

Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.

Meditation is not growth of the ego, it is death of the ego.

Yoga is the journey from just eating and sleeping to becoming an ecstatic being. This is the aspiration of life itself.

Through meditative techniques, one can free the mind of delusions and attain what we call enlightenment.

The other world is hidden in this world. The Buddha is asleep in the Zorba. It has to be awakened. And nobody can awaken you except life itself.

Put your whole energy into meditation. Once you are centered in your being, once you know the inner path, then wherever you are you can manage to go to the center without any difficulty. Even when you are dying, it will not make any difference. You may be sick, it will not make any difference.

There are, strictly speaking, no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity.

So the single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind.

Relaxation is the point. And if you can relax with an enlightened person his enlightenment will start penetrating you, because when you are relaxed you become porous. When you are tense you are closed; when you relax he will enter

I make no distinction between the mind and the spirit, and therefore no distinction between the process of achieving spiritual growth and achieving mental growth. They are one and the same.