enlightenment Quotes

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.

Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we're done. That's my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.