Enlightenment Quotes

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...

I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good i...

It is better to enlighten men’s minds than to teach them to be obstinate in their prejudices.

It is the task of the enlightened not only to ascend to learning and to see the good but to be willi...

How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?

We think a wise person is someone who solves problems. Truth is, a wise person is someone who avoids...

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of the...

Only he whose bright lyrehas sounded in shadowsmay, looking onward, restorehis infinite praise. Only...

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the fi...

Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into o...

This thing I am feeling, I’m almost certain, is the closest I’ll ever come to standing somewhere in ...

Similitude of the heart is like that of a telephone operator between man and God.

God’s love supersedes all religions and it is the core of all religions.

If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that ther...

We could express this power in the following way: Most of the time we live in an interior world of d...

We could express this power in the following way: Most of the time we live in an interior world of d...

We could express this power in the following way: Most of the time we live in an interior world of d...

We could express this power in the following way: Most of the time we live in an interior world of d...

What is in mind is a sort of Chautauqua...that’s the only name I can think of for it...like the trav...

I want to talk about another kind of high country now in the world of thought, which in some ways, f...

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

He suddenly understood the message of so many spiritual teachers that the only revolution that can w...

In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato's belief that truth and beauty and g...

Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will...

Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others r...

But I wish to be enlightened.''Let me caution you against it.''Is enlightenment on the subject, then...

The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlighte...

For a brief moment I felt I was the older, the more mature."A gift of life," I responded, "if not to...

In the end, no one can seek God unless he has already begun to find him.

Love releases us into the realm of divine imagination, where the soul is expanded and reminded of it...

A person has all sorts of lags built into him, Kesey is saying. One, the most basic, is the sensory ...

What you know can never be the beyond. Whatever you experience is not the beyond. If there is any be...

Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material amelioration...If three is anyt...

The true division of humanity is this: the luminous and the dark.To diminish the number of the dark,...

The central ideas of Christianity — an angry God and vicarious atonement — are contrary to every fac...

..we have become wealthy, and wealth is the prelude to art. In every country where centuries of phys...

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand years is tr...

By reflecting a little on this subject I am almost convinced that those numberless small Circuses we...

When one has attained a state of mind from which the evil passions of the present world have been so...

The sage is still not because he takes stillness to be good and therefore is still. The ten thousand...

In the midst of darkness, he alone sees the dawn; in the midst of the soundless, he alone hears harm...

When a man does not dwell in self, then things will of themselves reveal their forms to him. His mov...

The man who has forgotten self may be said to have entered Heaven.

A man like this will not go where he has no will to go, will not do what he has no mind to do. Thoug...

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Actual freedom has not increased in proportion to man's awareness of it.

The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from ...

She shook her head. "It sounds suspiciously like Nirvana." "What's wrong with that?" "Pure Spirit, o...

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,The proper study of mankind is Man.Placed on this isthmus...

Poetic justice, with her lifted scale,Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs,And solid p...

While pensive poets painful vigils keep,Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

Enlightenment is coming out from the fear mode, victim mode and guilt mode of living to the mode of ...

Enlightenment gives profound joy of the heart and a great love for the fellow beings.

Remember your connection with the cosmos. Remember your connection with the infinity and that rememb...

Enlightenment is making friendship with the whole existence.

There is a rose in every heart. Enlightenment is recognizing that rose.

Enlightenment is living in the light of cosmic collaboration.

Enlightenment is something that you've been resisting to happen. It’s not something you have to stru...

There are twenty one mystical dimensions of consciousness. Enlightenment is abiding in the highest t...

Enlightenment is the transforming process that makes one kind, happy, and compassionate to the world...

Everyone has the fire, but the champions know when to ignite the spark.

At some magical instant you realize a deep Harmony with the universe. Enlightenment is that harmony.