Enlightenment Quotes

Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own bei...

For thousands of years humans were oppressed— as some of us still are— by the notion that the univer...

What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body.

Just because ANYONE CAN, DOESN'T MEAN EVERYONE CAN.

JUST BECAUSE ANYONE CAN, DOESN'T MEAN EVERYONE SHOULD (Mrs. Peters to Conner Bailey)

So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the ha...

We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or...

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went...

A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how ...

HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing,...

If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, t...

The world had opened out and so had the universe, or what she since had thought must have been the u...

It is significant comment on the victory of science over magic that were someone to say ‘if I put th...

Enlightenment is not an attainment, it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes an...

Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment.

Sometimes enlightenment descends upon you when you least expect it...

When you dig a well, there's no sign of water until you reach it, only rocks and dirt to move out of...

If there is a dark and hostile power, laying its treacherous toils within us, by which it holds us f...

We believed in another world, but we admitted the feebleness of our senses. Then came 'enlightenment...

...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in w...

So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify fro...

You occasionally hear it said that spiritual aspirants should drop everything and set off for the wo...

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

Man, when he is re-born, passes through the ages as he who is born; and the preceding state is alway...

I have often been asked why I maintained such a non-compromising antagonism to government and in wha...

They were in a position of total ignorance and people in that position often died without being enli...

What is it that has called you so suddenly out of nothingness to enjoy for a brief while a spectacle...

It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenmen...

I have said: "Blow out the lamp! Day is here!" And you keep saying: "Give me a lamp so I can find th...

With rope-ladders learned I to reach many a window, with nimble legs did I climb high masts: to sit ...

Bhikkus, all is burning. And what is the all that is burning?The eye is burning, visible forms are b...

Whoever sees me sees the teaching, and whoever sees the teaching sees me.

All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.

He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opp...

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as ou...

What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did...

They [his readers, whom he asks to be his friends] will find that I have always loved truth so passi...

You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and,...

It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows...

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Book...

An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope...

It [enlightenment] has not come to you by means of teaching! And-thus is my thought, oh exalted one,...

I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other d...

Now Siddhartha also got some idea of why he had fought this self in vain as a Brahman, as a penitent...

Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understand...

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's ...

The main point of enlightenment is man's release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matte...

Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make ...

...new prejudices will serve as well as old ones to harness the great unthinking masses.For this enl...

An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot ...

An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot ...

[To think for oneself] is the maxim of a reason never passive. The tendency to such passivity, and t...

If I have a book that thinks for me, a pastor who acts as my conscience, a physician who prescribes ...

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.

To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of...

And what is enlightenment anyway but delusions we can live with?

You only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathem...

If you would listen, sir, in the sense of being aware of your conflicts and contradictions without f...

Everything transitory is but an image.

There is strong shadow where there is much light.

There is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous [founding nations upon superstition]; yet...

It seemed as though he had a fundamental belief that the merit of his argument depended on the stren...

And I envy you. You have the one thing that matters. You have all your discoveries before you.

To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true...

They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritatin...

But sometimes, by the deserving and the fortunate, even that task is accomplished. And when it is ac...

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and ob...

The sea is only the embodiment of asupernatural and wonderful existence.It is nothing but love and e...

Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won't be because of great statesmen or churche...

It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by ge...

The point of the overall meditative path is to have Wakefulness (or Consciousness as Such) transcend...

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlighten...

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Knowing others is Wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment

The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistak...

There was hardly an eminent writer in Paris who was unacquainted with the inside of the Conciergerie...

[Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the ...

Sometimes people claim they don't need a crutch like Jesus, but he's not a crutch, he's a teacher. I...

Movies can be instruments of enlightenment.

A spiritual reinterpretation of events gives us miraculous authority to command the winds, to part t...

How odd that we spend so much time treating the darkness, and so little time seeking the light. The ...

From a mind filled with infinite love comes the power to create infinite possibilities. We have the ...

You can't expect anyone to trust revelation if he hasn't experienced it himself. Those who haven't o...

I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man--the landscape of his soul. I hope that ev...

Everything, however complicated - breaking waves, migrating birds, and tropical forests - is made of...

Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowleg...

Have we,” asks Claude de Saint-Martin, the great ‘unknown philosopher,’ “have we advanced one step f...

Our whole education system is calculated to produce *feelings* in us, impart them to us, instead of ...

There are five people you meet in heaven," the Blue Man suddenly said. "Each of us was in your life ...

At the same time, we may not as a culture be fond of old-fashioned supernaturalism, but we certainly...

The capitalists are the brains of civilization, because they supply the entire fabric of which all e...

Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

These ideas grew out of the Enlightenment; their roots are in Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality, Hu...

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enligh...

As in the days of the first Merovingian, who pledged allegiance to the cross because of a victorious...

Via the mediation of the Enlightenment, this movement had changed from a hobby among a tiny literate...

If Enlightenment in a technical sense is the programmatic word for progress in the awareness of expl...

Hence there is no free admission to the process of enlightenment - it is always paid at a psycho-tra...

The Enlightenment, finally, invented progressive 'history' as an inner-worldly purgatory in order to...

I lifted you from the tomb world just now and I will continue to lift you until you lose interest an...