Enlightenment Path Quotes

I often wonder when I make a film - I'm thinking of making a film of the Buddha - and I often wonder: If Buddha had all the elements that are given to a director - if he had music, if he had visuals, if he had a video camera - would we get Buddhism better?

I've always been very spiritual, since I was a very, very young child. The older I get, I'm reading more, I'm experiencing more, and so that's all reflected in all of my music. All of my fans are pretty familiar with me and my beliefs. It's all about connecting to yourself and sticking to your own spirituality.

Quality is the Buddha.

Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

Let sannyas be the turning point. That's what sannyas is all about: a return journey. One starts moving inwards rather than moving outwards.

Religions are the training wheels of self enlightenment. They can be helpful in the beginning but at some point they must be let go.

Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.

You yourself must make an effort. Buddhas are only show the way. The thoughtful who enter the way are freed from the bondage of defilements.

Great spiritual traditions are used as a means to ripen us, to bring us face to face with our life, and to help us to see in a new way by developing a stillness of mind and a strength of heart.

A warrior of light always commits himself. He is enslaved to his dream but he is free in his steps.

We view Sufism not as an ideology that molds people to the right way of belief or action, but as an art or science that can exert a beneficial influence on individuals and societies, in accordance with the needs of those individuals and societies ... Sufi study and development gives one capacities one did not have before.

We have made a great effort to maintain all levels of Buddhist education; it has helped us have a kind of renaissance, really.

The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.

A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be.

The secret of Soto Zen is just two words: not always so.... In Japanese, it's two words, three words in English. That is the secret of our practice.

No single step in the persuit of enlightenment should ever be considered sacred; only the search was.

The spiritual process has always been referred to as a journey - constant change.

We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate action, the mahayana path.

The world is our school for spiritual discovery.

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.

The life of the spirit may be fairly represented in diagram as a large acute-angled triangle divided horizontally into unequal parts with the narrowest segment uppermost. The lower the segment the greater it is in breadth, depth, and area.

When a fully qualified Mahayana disciple relies completely upon a fully qualified Mahayana Spiritual Guide the attainment of enlightenment is easy.