Quotes on Spiritual Enlightenment

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. _x000D_ Where there is hatred, let me sow love, _x000D_ Where there is injury, pardon; _x000D_ Where there is doubt, faith; _x000D_ Where there is despair, hope; _x000D_ Where there is darkness, light; _x000D_ And where there is sadness, joy. _x000D_ O Divine Master, _x000D_ Grant that I may not so much seek _x000D_ To be consoled as to console, _x000D_ To be understood as to understand, _x000D_ To be loved, as to love.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

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.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.