The Twelve Enlightenments for Healing Society Quotes

“If you allow your consciousness to drift toward your lower abdomen during breathing, then your breath will naturally delve deeper within you. If you allow your consciousness to experiencce the gratitude and joy of breathing, then your breath will naturally become light. Your breathing will naturally achieve a deep lightness as you consider inhaling as an expression of thanks to your body and exhaling as an expression of thanks to the Heavens above. Then you can lose yourself in your breath. You can follow your breath within and without your body, losing yourself until you become the breath itself.”
― Ilchi Lee, The Twelve Enlightenments for Healing Society

“In a futule effort to find the underlying truth of existence, we peer into the farthest reaches of the universe and split subatomic particles into smaller units. However, these techniques will only enable us to see the smallest particles that the prevailing technology affords. It will not help us "see" the reality behind existence, which is information. Since the world of information is zero, even the tiniest particle is larger than zero. If you truly want to know the source of existence, look deeply into your own mind first.”
― Ilchi Lee, The Twelve Enlightenments for Healing Society

“Dahnhak is not a way to gain enlightenment, but a way to actualize enlightenment. Dahnhak is a way to train yourself so that you can actualize the choices you have already made based on your enlightenment.”
― Ilchi Lee, The Twelve Enlightenments for Healing Society

“Who are you? Who do you wish to be?Why do you live? Why do you want to live? The answers to these questions are all yours to make.”
― Ilchi Lee, The Twelve Enlightenments for Healing Society

“Observe your own body. It breathes. You breathe when you are asleep, when you are no longer conscious of your own ideas of self-identity. Who, then, is breathing? The collection of information that you mistakenly think it’s you is not the main protagonist in this drama called the breath. In fact, you are not breathing; breath is naturally happening to you. You can purposely end your own life, but you cannot purposely keep your own life going. The expression, “My life” is actually an oxymoron, a result of ignorance and mistaken assumption. You don’t posses life; life expresses itself through you. Your body is a flower that life let bloom, a phenomenon created by life.”
― Ilchi Lee, The Twelve Enlightenments for Healing Society

“Enlightenment is choice.”
― Ilchi Lee, The Twelve Enlightenments for Healing Society

“In a fundamental sense, Earth and the community of human beings comprise the most basic environment in which we, as humanity, share as we try to nurture the seed of the soul. Therefore, healing, in its most fundamental and largest sense, is healing of the Earth and humanity.”
― Ilchi Lee, The Twelve Enlightenments for Healing Society

“Then what is a master? A master is someone who actualizes her enlightenment in every day living. Everyone already knows what is right and wrong. But we do not admit hat we know from right and wrong because we don't want to take responsibility that comes with such admission.”
― Ilchi Lee, The Twelve Enlightenments for Healing Society

“I declare that I am a spiritual being, an essential and eternal part of the Soul of Humanity, one and indivisible. I declare that I am a human being, whose rights and security ultimately depend on assuring the human rights of all people of Earth. I declare that I am a child of the Earth, with the will and awareness to work for goals that benefit the entire community of Earth on Earth. I declare that I am a healer, with the power and purpose to heal the many forms of divisions and conflicts that exist on Earth. I declare that I am a protector, with the knowledge and responsibility to help Earth recover her natural harmony and beauty. I declare that I am an activist in service to the world, with the commitment and the ability to make a positive difference in my society.”
― Ilchi Lee, The Twelve Enlightenments for Healing Society