Nirvana Quotes

“Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?”
― Kurt Cobain

“The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

“If we learn to listen to the others and try to capture the soul of their language, and can scent the fragrance of the words we hear, we can be transported to a nirvana of deep understanding, without being overwhelmed by the reality of the clock. ("Watching the flight of time")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“He was depressed. He was addicted to heroin. And I think there comes a time when all the beauty in the world just isn’t enough.”
― Antony John, Five Flavors of Dumb

“You are not limited to this body, to this mind, or to this reality—you are a limitless ocean of Consciousness, imbued with infinite potential. You are existence itself.”
― Joseph P. Kauffman, The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom

“These are the three stages of enlightenment, the three glimpses of satori.

1. The first stage enlightenment:
A Glimpse of the Whole

The first stage of enlightenment is short glimpse from faraway of the whole. It is a short glimpse of being.
The first stage of enlightenment is when, for the first time, for a single moment the mind is not functioning. The ordinary ego is still present at the first stage of enlightenment, but you experience for a short while that there is something beyond the ego.
There is a gap, a silence and emptiness, where there is not thought between you and existence.
You and existence meet and merge for a moment.
And for the first time the seed, the thirst and longing, for enlightenment, the meeting between you and existence, will grow in your heart.

2. The second stage of enlightenment:
Silence, Relaxation, Togetherness, Inner Being

The second stage of enlightenment is a new order, a harmony, from within, which comes from the inner being. It is the quality of freedom.
The inner chaos has disappeared and a new silence, relaxation and togetherness has arisen.
Your own wisdom from within has arisen.
A subtle ego is still present in the second stage of enlightenment.
The Hindus has three names for the ego:
1. Ahamkar, which is the ordinary ego.
2. Asmita, which is the quality of Am-ness, of no ego. It is a very silent ego, not aggreessive, but it is still a subtle ego.
3. Atma, the third word is Atma, when the Am-ness is also lost. This is what Buddha callas no-self, pure being.
In the second stage of enlightenment you become capable of being in the inner being, in the gap, in the meditative quality within, in the silence and emptiness.
For hours, for days, you can remain in the gap, in utter aloneness, in God.
Still you need effort to remain in the gap, and if you drop the effort, the gap will disappear.
Love, meditation and prayer becomes the way to increase the effort in the search for God.
Then the second stage becomes a more conscious effort. Now you know the way, you now the direction.

3. The third stage of enlightenment:
Ocean, Wholeness, No-self, Pure being

At the third stage of enlightenment, at the third step of Satori, our individual river flowing silently, suddenly reaches to the Ocean and becomes one with the Ocean.
At the third Satori, the ego is lost, and there is Atma, pure being. You are, but without any boundaries. The river has become the Ocean, the Whole.
It has become a vast emptiness, just like the pure sky.
The third stage of enlightenment happens when you have become capable of finding the inner being, the meditative quality within, the gap, the inner silence and emptiness, so that it becomes a natural quality.
You can find the gap whenever you want.
This is what tantra callas Mahamudra, the great orgasm, what Buddha calls Nirvana, what Lao Tzu calls Tao and what Jesus calls the kingdom of God.
You have found the door to God.
You have come home.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten

“Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem”
― Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

“I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders.”
― Kurt Cobain, Journals

“I can stay still. I can observe. I can wait.”
― Abhaidev, Anant

“An entire generation now regards Nirvana as its version of the Beatles. They are of course hopelessly mistaken, but I would not recommend you tell them so.”
― Lewis Grossberger

“Having just enough life to enjoy being dead.”
― Jim Holt, Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story

“Those who know the ultimate truth are so intoxicated by it that they don't bother telling about it to others.”
― Abhaidev, Anant

“He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.”
― Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada

“Sometimes, you can't save someone from themselves.”
― Dave Grohl

“Nirvana is right here, in the midst of the turmoil of life. It is the state you find when you are no longer driven to live by compelling desires, fears, and social commitments, when you have found your center of freedom and can act by choice out of that. Voluntary action out of this center is the action of the bodhisattvas -- joyful participation in the sorrows of the world. You are not grabbed, because you have released yourself from the grabbers of fear, lust, and duties.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

“It is said that love does not last, that it is just a momentary spell cast upon your soul by some higher power, or a small trick of the mind. If this were all true, there would be no story to tell.”
― Natalie Valdes, NIRVANA

“¿Quién soy yo para buscarte
así, Cobain, incluso si la cartomancia seguramente sea placebo? ¿Quién soy yo para darte ese lugar de padre y de guía
y de rey sucio al que obedeceré siempre con la parte más
triste de mí? No soy nadie y, sin embargo, lo lloro y le escribo, finalmente, esta declaración desorbitada, de fuego fatuo,
instigando más vergüenza porque la realidad es que quisiera
parar, pero solo sé escribir.”
― Lourdes López Suyai, El día que quise hablar con Kurt Cobain

“There is no other grand design, except a beautiful human mind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“God is not a goal, nirvana is not a goal, enlightenment is not a goal, it is not an achievement -- just the contrary. When you have forgotten ALL goals, when you have dropped the whole achieving mind, enlightenment is -- enlightenment is a state of no-mind.

And enlightenment is nothing special. It is the most ordinary, natural phenomenon. It looks special because you make a goal out of it.

You will have to learn ways of relaxing in the present. Enlightenment is not an effort to achieve something. It is a state of effortlessness. It is a state of no-action. It is a state of tremendous passivity, receptivity. 

and you are suddenly at home. Nothing is being missed. You are part, an organic part of this tremendous, beautiful whole. You are relaxed in it, surrendered in it. You don't exist separately -- all separation has disappeared.

A great rejoicing happens, because with the ego disappearing there is no worry left, with the ego disappearing there is no anguish left, with the ego disappearing there is no possibility of death any more. This is what enlightenment is. It is the understanding that all is good, that all is beautiful -- and t is beautiful as it is. Everything is in tremendous harmony, in accord.

The stars are in accord with the grass leaves, the earth is in accord with the sky, the rivers are in accord with the mountains. Everything is in such accord that existence is an orchestra. Everything is rhythmic, in tune. Existence is music. That experience is enlightenment. And you are not separate from it like an observer, like a spectator. The observer and the observed are one, the seer and the seen are one -- you are it!

It is a great participation. You have fallen into she whole and the whole has fallen into you. The drop has dropped into the ocean and the ocean has dropped into the drop. It is impossible to say anything more about it. It is impossible to say, in fact, anything about it. It can only be experienced.”
― Osho, The Fish in the Sea is Not Thirsty

“The unification or “yog” of all humans in the psyche of the humans, that rises through simple human action or karma, with pure nonconflicted devotion or bhakti to the action and the self, while learning through healthy, effort-less effort or hatha and knowledge or gyana, is the king of all yoga, that is, raja yoga. This unification among humans is the real samadhi or nirvana in the civilized society of thinking humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Saint of The Sapiens

“If one never learns the art of living, you can't have silence, love, joy, truth, freedom, beauty and grace in life. It all depends on how you live. It all depends on how you approach life.
One comes into life with a great potential, but very few people develop that potential. The potential remains unused.
The seeker of truth have to become committed, dynamic and always move into the unknown. He needs to be always reaching for the stars. And then life becomes filled with joy and fragrance.
It is that fragrance that has been called, God, nirvana, and enlightenment. It is life that blossoms.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, The Way of the Heart

“Those who've been to the mountaintop, grow too human for the dunghills of dogma.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“If Jesus didn't exist, Moses didn't exist, Mohammed didn't exist, Vyas and Sid didn't exist, I'll still stand just as divine, just as alive, just as human. If I didn't exist, my writings didn't exist, stand human anyway, within you is the ore. Don't outsource, you are the source, feet rooted in soil, not shackled in folklore.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Beyond faith, intellect, reason and ritual, existence blooms in I-less continuum.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“The I-less Continuum (Sonnet 2456)

When a 3 pound brain drops on
a bigot in its complete vastness,
bigotry don't just blush,
it's blasted to ashes.

When a 10 ounce heart drops on
a racist in its complete wholeness,
the very idea of race
is blown out of existence.

Neurons are the prophets of reality,
consciousness is the scripture.
I don't see the turn of the universe,
I cause the universe to turn.

Beyond culture, religion and nation,
there's my homeland called human -
beyond faith, intellect, reason and ritual,
existence blooms in I-less continuum.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“God’s original name is Human, but it isn’t very profitable, so the apes cook up fancy names, and sprinkle in tales of magic.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“More divide means more fear, means more control, divine distant from human is the holy grail of commerce.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Human is the first and final name of divinity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“I am my own gateway to endless enlightenment.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“You are Wardenclyffe, you are Nalanda, you're the source and sink of civilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop