Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We need to learn that truth consists not in correct doctrine, but in correct doctrine plus the inward enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.

Chogyam Trungpa

The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.

Chogyam Trungpa

If we really prefer basic sanity or enlightenment, it's irritatingly possible to get into it.

David Brin

Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment.

Deepak Chopra

The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity.

Ann Druyan

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

Eckhart Tolle

Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.

Eckhart Tolle

Being an outsider to some extent, someone who does not "fit in" with others or is rejected by them for whatever reason, makes life difficult, but it also places you at an advantage as far as enlightenment is concerned. It takes you out of unconsciousness almost by force.

Elliott Abrams

History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later with a whimper.

Deepak Chopra

We may experience a realization of our true Self the first time we meditate, but most often the process of awakening is gradual.

Deepak Chopra

The whole world opens when we accept this moment, this very moment.

Alan J. Heeger

My undergraduate years at the University of Nebraska were a special time in my life: the combination of partying and intellectual awakening that is what the undergraduate years are supposed to be. I went to the university with the goal of becoming an engineer; I had no concept that one could pursue science as a career.

Henry Reed

When we fall asleep, we withdraw our awareness from its hypnotic fascination with physical sensation, thereby enabling us to listen with our now awakening sixth sense.

Eckhart Tolle

The actual experience of awakening can only be in the present moment.

Eckhart Tolle

There's something in everybody that longs for that awakening to be more true to yourself.

Eckhart Tolle

Only by awakening can you know the true meaning of that word.

Eckhart Tolle

Evolution usually occurs in response to a crisis situation, and we now are faced with such a crisis situation. This is why there is indeed an enormous acceleration in the awakening process of our species.

Donna Tartt

I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all.

Douglas Smith

PR is performance recognition

Cynthia Ozick

Every writer aspires to recognition , and it comes entirely privately, without public fanfare, each time a piece of work is judged worthy of publication.

Herbert Spencer

Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.

Harry Browne

Security ... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.

Lisa Kleypas

Both of us were quiet with the recognition that something was ending, and something was beginning.

Karl Barth

If I have a system it is limited to a recognition of what Kierkegaard called 'the infinite qualitative distinction' between time and eternity

Martin Luther

The recognition of sin is the beginning of salvation

John Ruskin

Hope- the recognition, by true foresight, of better things to be reached here after.