Top 200 Enlightenment Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Die before you die and find that there is no death.”

— Eckhart Tolle

152. “Observe your thoughts, don’t believe them.”

— Eckhart Tolle

153. “Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

154. “We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine, timeless present moment rather than be caught up in mental movie making.”

— Eckhart Tolle

155. “Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion!”

— Buddha

156. “Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.”

— Ajahn Chah

157. “When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.”

— Alan Watts

158. “Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

159. “The art of life is to live in the present moment.”

— Emmet Fox

160. “It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.”

— Nhat Hanh

161. “Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don’t live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the Dance.”

— Eckhart Tolle

162. “I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil. I am the Pure and Blessed One. We must reject all thoughts that assert to the contrary.”

— Swami Vivekananda

163. “I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?”

— Rumi

164. “Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.”

— Ramana Maharshi

165. “Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don’t see the self as self, what do we have to fear?”

— Lao Tzu

166. “Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

167. “Suffering only shows where you are attached. That is why, to those on the path, suffering is grace.”

— Ram Dass

168. “The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought form.”

— Eckhart Tolle

169. “Nothing can nourish the soul but light.”

— Rumi

170. “The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.”

— John Locke

171. “There exists no God. What exists is godliness, and that godliness surrounds you. We are all in the same ocean.”

— Osho

172. “The master observes the world but trusts his inner vision. He allows things to come and go. He prefers what is within to what is without.”

— Lao Tzu

173. “Meditation makes you sharper, happier, and intuitive. Don’t you want intuition? Don’t you want the right thought to come to you at the right time?”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

174. “Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.”

— Nhat Hanh

175. “Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.”

— Ramana Maharshi

176. “You are the world and the world is you.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

177. “The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul’s growth.”

— Marianne Williamson

178. “Through being “right”, you feel superior and through feeling superior you strengthen your sense of self. In reality, of course, you are only strengthening the illusion of ego.”

— Eckhart Tolle

179. “Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.”

— Voltaire

180. “What a liberation to realize that the ‘voice in my head’ is not who I am. ‘Who am I, then?’ The one who sees that.”

— Eckhart Tolle

181. “It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists.”

— Eckhart Tolle

182. “Just let go. Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness.”

— Caroline Myss

183. “There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

184. “Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment. Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self requires strength; He who knows he has enough is rich. Perseverance is a sign of will power.”

— Lao Tzu

185. “It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.”

— Buddha

186. “So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord.”

— Eckhart Tolle

187. “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, but are spiritual beings having a human experience.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

188. “Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it.”

— Pema Chödrön

189. “Fame is foolish, it is pointless, meaningless. Even if the whole world knows you, how does it make you richer? How does it make your life more blissful? How does it help you to be more understanding, to be more aware? To be more alert, to be more alive?”

— Osho

190. “Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

191. “Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease. First realize that you are sick; then you can move toward health.”

— Lao Tzu

192. “A disciplined mind brings happiness.”

— Buddha

193. “Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak.”

— Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

194. “All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.”

— Swami Vivekananda

195. “Whatever you accept completely will take you to peace, including the acceptance that you cannot accept, that you are in resistance.”

— Eckhart Tolle

196. “I am beneath or above no one. When I am independent of the good or bad opinion of others, I stand strong in my own divine power.”

— Deepak Chopra

197. “Purify your eyes, and see the pure world. Your life will fill with radiant forms.”

— Rumi

198. “The game is not about becoming somebody, it’s about becoming nobody.”

— Ram Dass

199. “There is a field beyond all notions of right and wrong. Come, meet me there.”

— Rumi

200. “The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.”

— Ram Dass