Top 200 Enlightenment Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny – he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed. You are not here accidentally – you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you.”

— Osho

102. “You are not the body. You are the immensity and infinity of consciousness.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

103. “Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life.”

— Eckhart Tolle

104. “That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.”

— Eckhart Tolle

105. “Dare to think for yourself.”

— Voltaire

106. “I am no longer the wave of consciousness thinking itself separated from the sea of cosmic consciousness. I am the ocean of Spirit that has become the wave of human life.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

107. “For the ego to survive, it must make time – past and future – more important than the present moment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

108. “Wherever you are, be there totally.”

— Eckhart Tolle

109. “To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.”

— Ramana Maharshi

110. “The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.”

— Ramana Maharshi

111. “Nothing is to be clung to as I, me or mine.”

— Buddha

112. “The ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that needs to be said. Only mature minds can grasp the simple truth in all its nakedness.”

— Ramana Maharshi

113. “In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.”

— Ramana Maharshi

114. “If you accept that a relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy, then the relationship will offer you salvation, and you will be aligning yourself with the higher consciousness that wants to be born into this world.”

— Eckhart Tolle

115. “I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.”

— Eckhart Tolle

116. “Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold on to the truth within yourself as to the only truth.”

— Buddha

117. “Become intensely conscious of the present moment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

118. “Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation. It dies with the body, which is why we are so afraid of death. Death scares the hell out of who you think you are, especially if you think you are this body.”

— Ram Dass

119. “Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.”

— Eckhart Tolle

120. “Love yourself and be awake- Today, tomorrow, always. First establish yourself in the way, Then teach others, And so defeat sorrow. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing- Straighten yourself. You are your only master. Who else? Subdue yourself, And discover your master.”

— Buddha

121. “Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there – buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day.”

— Deepak Chopra

122. “When there’s a teacher who embodies presence, then it seems to come for a while through that opening. The teacher is an opening to presence.”

— Eckhart Tolle

123. “Questions appear real for as long as you consider yourself to be a person. When you realize you are the impersonal presence, all questions vanish.”

— Mooji

124. “Don’t belong to anything. Don’t belong to anyone. Just Be. Feel your Being first and foremost, and don’t compare or compete. Just Be your Being.”

— Mooji

125. “The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.”

— Ramana Maharshi

126. “How do you let go of attachment to things? Don’t even try. It’s impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.”

— Eckhart Tolle

127. “Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

128. “The power of now can only be realized now. It requires no time and effort. Effort means you’re trying hard to get somewhere, and so you are not present, welcoming this moment as it is.”

— Eckhart Tolle

129. “The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.”

— Buddha

130. “You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.”

— Eckhart Tolle

131. “Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.”

— Eckhart Tolle

132. “Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.”

— Rumi

133. “Ego means self-identification with thinking, to be trapped in thought, which means to have a mental image of “me” based on thought and emotions. So ego is there in the absence of a witnessing presence.”

— Eckhart Tolle

134. “Now is all you ever have. There never is anything else. So, you might as well make the now your friend. Otherwise, you are out of alignment with life itself.”

— Eckhart Tolle

135. “Become totally empty. Quiet the restlessness of the mind. Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness.”

— Lao Tzu

136. “Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.”

— Lao Tzu

137. “I once read that people who study others are wise but those who study themselves are enlightened.”

— Robin S. Sharma

138. “The way to do is to be.”

— Lao Tzu

139. “Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.”

— Immanuel Kant

140. “The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

141. “Awareness of the inner body is consciousness remembering its origin and returning to the Source.”

— Eckhart Tolle

142. “What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.”

— Christopher Hitchens

143. “My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.”

— Osho

144. “Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen!”

— Rumi

145. “The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”

— Thomas Paine

146. “Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”

— Voltaire

147. “As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love – even the most simple action.”

— Eckhart Tolle

148. “What are you afraid of? You are an immortal being. You are neither a man nor a woman, as you may think, but a soul – joyous, eternal.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

149. “In that power of self-control lies the seed of eternal freedom.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

150. “Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love – now you are love.”

— Osho