"The monks seek to reach their goal of enlightenment not through learning but through unlearning all preconceived notions of life and reality."

-- Andrew Juniper

"What help is it to me that the Father gives birth to his Son unless I too give birth to him."

-- Meister Eckhart

"Our business is to wake up."

-- Aldous Huxley

"Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you hav to be exactly who you're being right now."

-- Neale Donald Walsch

"It is generally agreed that one does not learn to become a Buddha, one simply discovers or remembers that one is already Buddha."

-- Ken Wilber

"The study of philosophy without longing for liberation is like dressing up a corpse."

-- Tripura Rahasya

"Put yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom that flows into you as life, place yourself in the full center of that flood, then you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment."

-- Emerson

"Talk as much philosophy as you please, worship as many gods as you like, observe all ceremonies, sing devoted praises to any number of divine beings -- liberation never comes, even at the end of a hundred aeons, without the realization of the Oneness of Self."

-- Shankara

"To be enlightened is to one with all things."

-- Dogen

"Enlightenment is ordinary life two inches off the ground."

-- D.T. Suzuki

"To express enlightenment in each moment is to live each moment afresh, without ideas or attachment anywhere."

-- Shunryu Suzuki, Roshi

"Why become a Buddhist, when you can become a Buddha?"

-- Lama Surya Das

"If you know that fundamentally there is nothing to seek, you have settled your affairs."

-- Rinzai

"Enlightenment is: do what you want, eat what there is."

-- Jack Kerouac

"Enlightenment means in plain terms understanding what is real and what is unreal."

-- Ramesh Balsekar

"Beyond living and dreaming there is something more: waking up."

-- Antonio Machado

"Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be."

-- Aldous Huxley

"The perfect man has no self, because he has transcended the finite and identified himself with the universe."

-- Chuang Tzu

"If your watchfulness is deep and steady, ever turned toward the source, it will gradually move upstream till suddenly it becomes the source."

-- Nisargadatta Maharaj

"To see the false as the false is the ending of the false."

-- MG