Albert Camus Quotes

One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.

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.

When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.

You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.

The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

Even my desire to become free or enlightened is just another craving for fulfillment or completion in the future. So don’t seek to become free or desire or “achieve” enlightenment. Become present.

We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.

All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares.

Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.

I'm big into Eastern concepts. The horror of life, the love of children, the whole phantasmagoria - it's all meaningless. Be still, and see what happens. All of life unfolds perfectly. You have to get beyond consciousness.

Every religion or every philosophy is an outcome of the human search for liberation.

I am interested in suffering and, in particular, the Buddhist idea that in pain, you can find beauty.

Suffering only shows where you are attached. That is why, to those on the path, suffering is grace.

Tell others about the truth that sets you free.

He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.

And for a disciple thus freed, in whose heart dwells peace, there is nothing to be added to what has been done, and naught more remains for him to do. Just as a rock of one solid mass remains unshaken by the wind, even so, neither forms, nor sounds, nor odors, nor tastes, nor contacts of any kind, neither the desired, nor the undesired, can cause such an one to waver. Steadfast is his mind, gained is deliverance.

Free from desire, you realize the mystery.

Enlightenment is the mind that is open to anything, but attached to nothing. That is freedom. No values, no resentment, no grudges. Not carrying the past along with you. Not carrying memories from the past that are hurtful and shameful and embarrassing. Just let all that go and you are living in enlightenment, and you are free for everything.

Free from desire, you realize the mystery, caught in the desire, you see only the manifestations.

People who have let go of themselves are so pure that the world cannot harm them.