Women have been dependent upon men for their survival, for the survival of their children.

Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.

Many paths lead to the Door of Enlightenment. Beware those that proclaim there is but one.

There are two obstacles to enlightenment: 1. Thinking you know. 2 Thinking you don't know.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

Be humble in order to attain enlightenment. Thus, after attaining it, be more humble still.

If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is 'the quiet acceptance of what is'.

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.

When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.

Awareness is wakefulness. Wakefulness is consciousness. Consciousness is limitless awareness.

Europe and the world are waiting for us to defend the spirit of the enlightenment everywhere.

Zen is a very quick path to enlightenment and development of the mind and all its facilities.

Madness is not enlightenment, but the search for enlightenment is often mistaken for madness.

Men are really not all that interested in sex. For most men, sex is a very simple experience.

Review your description of the world, what it is to be a woman, and see how inadequate it is.

If we really prefer basic sanity or enlightenment, it's irritatingly possible to get into it.

If global extinction is to be avoided, woman must unite and come to terms with their destiny.

Then there will come a time where, very quickly, a woman will lose what some call her beauty.

When you wish to subjugate a people, you have to convince them of their own inherent weakness.

Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed; after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.

It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.

Everyone is afraid of enlightenment, knowledge, completion. People are afraid of being exposed.

Don't care what anybody says about enlightenment, except the enlightened and those who seek it.

People always say, 'A good man is hard to find.' You've never heard that about women, have you?

I don't believe that human beings can achieve ultimate enlightenment, because humans have flaws.

A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things.

If even one woman in the West were to become enlightened, it would change karmas on this planet.

An enlightened person does not ignore things and does not stick to things, not even to the truth.

Words are a distraction to enlightenment. Getting rid of conceptual thinking means enlightenment.

Enlightenment doesn't simply mean being in heavenly states of mind. It doesn't mean being a saint.

Enlightenment means that you're in love with all of life, with not only immortality but mortality.

Only the rich can achieve enlightenment because the poor are too busy looking for fridge freezers.

All beings exist ultimately in a condition of inner enlightenment. Enlightenment is in all things.

We have to leave everything we have been, a perceiver, "I" as an individual. That is enlightenment.

Enlightenment is just another word for feeling comfortable with being a completely ordinary person.

When the entire population of the world attains enlightenment, I'll retire and play golf every day.

Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are. And listen to the wind singing in your veins.

Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.

Zen was an attempt to get back to the purest teachings of the Buddha -enlightenment without strings.

Enlightenment is nothing but your consciousness being concentrated on a single point - now and here.

I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality... I expect it to provide all further enlightenment.

I have made a vow to attain Enlightenment in the female form - no matter how many lifetimes it takes.

Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.

I am who I am who I am who am I Requesting some enlightenment Could I have been anyone other than me?

No single step in the persuit of enlightenment should ever be considered sacred; only the search was.

Nirvana's not like anything you've ever known or experienced because it can't be known or experienced.

Remember, the greatest gift to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.

If there's any possibility for enlightenment, it's right now, not at some future time. Now is the time.

Because clarity and enlightenment are within your own nature, they are regained without moving an inch.

Enlightenment simply means that you've run out of questions, and that the answers don't matter anymore.

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