Top 200 Enlightenment Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “The future is a concept, it doesn’t exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now. That’s one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now.”

— Alan Watts

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2. “Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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3. “Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.”

— Ramana Maharshi

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4. “Give up all desire for enjoyment in earth or heaven. Control the organs of the senses and control the mind. Bear every misery without even knowing that you are miserable. Think of nothing but spiritual freedom.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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5. “Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.”

— Ramana Maharshi

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6. “You are not the mind. If you know you are not the mind, then what difference does it make if it’s busy or quiet? You are not the mind.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

— Eckhart Tolle

8. “You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything else. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find Peace.”

— Ramana Maharshi

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9. “Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.”

— Ramana Maharshi

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10. “Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.”

— Ramana Maharshi

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11. “You need no time to open yourself to the power of now and so awaken to who you are beyond name and form and realize that in the depth of your being, you are already complete, whole, one with the timeless essence of all life.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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12. “Live in Joy, In love, Even among those who hate. Live in joy, In health, Even among the afflicted. Live in joy, In peace, Even among the troubled. Look within. Be still. Free from fear and attachment, Know the sweet joy of living in the way.”

— Buddha

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13. “Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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14. “True enlightenment is nothing but the nature of one’s own self being fully realized.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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15. “To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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16. “The power is in you. The answer is in you. And you are the answer to all your searches: you are the goal. You are the answer. It’s never outside.”

— Eckhart Tolle

17. “The place where even the slightest trace of the ‘I’ does not exist, alone is Self.”

— Ramana Maharshi

18. “The past has no power over the present moment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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19. “Mind is everything. What we think, we become.”

— Buddha

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20. “Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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21. “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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22. “You are not your mind.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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23. “Be here now.”

— Ram Dass

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24. “As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.”

— Rumi

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25. “It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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26. “Being must be felt. It can’t be thought.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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27. “Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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28. “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”

— Voltaire

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29. “Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.”

— Alan Watts

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30. “Make of yourself a light.”

— Buddha

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31. “Instead of fighting the darkness, you bring in the light.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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32. “Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.”

— Ramana Maharshi

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33. “A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.”

— Buddha

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34. “The truth is: you don’t have a life, you are life.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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35. “You are an infinite spiritual being having a temporary human experience.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

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36. “The question ‘Who am I?’ is not really meant to get an answer, the question ‘Who am I?’ is meant to dissolve the questioner.”

— Ramana Maharshi

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37. “Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve the silence?”

— Sathya Sai Baba

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

— Eckhart Tolle

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39. “You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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40. “We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

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41. “In the space of no-mind, truth descends like light.”

— Osho

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42. “Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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43. “Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.”

— Horace

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44. “The awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step for mankind.”

— Eckhart Tolle

45. “To know that you do not know is the best. To think you know when you do not is a disease. Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it.”

— Lao Tzu

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46. “Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.”

— Buddha

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47. “Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.”

— Osho

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48. “Be a lamp unto yourself.”

— Buddha

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49. “Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to “die before you die” – and find that there is no death.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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50. “I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.”

— Rumi

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