Enlightenment Quotes

"Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?" "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there" "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing" "Fear is just another word for ignorance" "Whoever has heart’s doors wide open, could see the sun itself in every atom." "Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen." "The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest." "Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life." "Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation." "Not by rituals and resolutions, nor by much learning, nor by celibacy, nor even by meditation can you find the supreme, immortal joy of nirvana until you extinguish your self-will." "A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated — this is the greatest blessing." "A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing." "No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it." "He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened." "He who knows himself is enlightened." "You can never get to a place of truth without first walking through all the darkness" "Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel" "Wonder is the beginning of wisdom" "It is the road to truth" "He who opens a school door, closes a prison"