Dogen Zenji Quotes

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.

One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

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.

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

The final goal of all human endeavor is the development of the human soul.

Prince didn't want to celebrate birthdays but to live life, to elevate and educate to the next level of enlightenment.

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.

Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge.

By growing a spiritual practice, we are given all that we need.

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.

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

You are here for no other purpose than to realize your inner divinity and manifest your inner enlightenment.

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

You should stop searching for phrases and chasing after words. Take the backward step and turn the light inward. Your body-mind of itself will drop off and your original face will appear. If you want to attain just this, immediately practice just this.

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

I realised success as an actor alone wouldn't make me happy. I needed to explore my spiritual side in more depth.

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

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

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

This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

I briefly flirted with some of the new age offerings available in the early '90s and found strength in Buddhism, but ultimately I was looking for something that was not tied to tradition.

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

Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.